Prosecutor denies crime of racism against whites

The Public Ministry of São Paulo (MP-SP) even archived a representation made against the former advisor to the Ministry of Racial Equality, Marcelle Decothé, for offending the “white fans” of São Paulo in the final of the Copa do Brasil. To suspend the process, the prosecutor responsible for the case stated that there was no way to recognize the possibility of a crime in the case of racism against white people, commonly known as “reverse racism”. Upon receiving an appeal, the agency decided to close the case and continue the investigation against Decothé.

The fact that generated the request for an inquiry to the MP-SP was the offense made by Decothé, on his Instagram profile, against the São Paulo people who were watching the final match of the Copa do Brasil against Flamengo, held on September 24th. “White fans, who don’t sing, descended from naughty Europeans… Everything from São Paulo is worse,” he wrote.

Experts confirmed at the time that Decothé could be convicted of a non-bailable crime, in accordance with the Supreme Court’s current interpretation of racism. Furthermore, as she was a public servant carrying out her duties (the advisor was fulfilling an agenda with the minister, who went to the scene on a FAB plane), the sentence could be increased by a third.

Days later, federal deputies Paulo Bilynskyj (PL-SP) and Gil Diniz (PL), councilor Fernando Holiday (PL) and others interested in the case contacted the MP-SP asking for an investigation of the advisor, who ended up being exonerated.

Prosecutor Maria Fernanda Balsalobre Pinto, from the Special Group to Combat Racial and Intolerance Crimes, assigned to the case in the MP-SP, concluded, however, that there was no crime. To indicate the shelving of the investigation, the prosecutor considered that legislation on racism would only protect “vulnerable groups in the historical and sociological context”. For her, racism only exists as a “manifestation of power”.

“It cannot be recognized as a typical criminal fact [crime]hatred against white people, from São Paulo or Europeans, to the extent that such groups were, historically, largely hegemonic and dominant, never experiencing any systematic violation of rights based on race or national origin”, he argued.

The filing was contested by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), in a petition accepted by the Attorney General of São Paulo Mario Sarrubbo. In the document in which he dismissed the case, Sarrubbo cited articles from the Constitution and international treaties on the equality of all races. For the prosecutor, the prosecutor’s understanding “would convey the idea that there is a certain tolerance” towards the crime of racism, “which arouses so much repulsion”.

“Therefore, the doctrine of superiority based on differences of race, color or origin is scientifically false, morally reprehensible, socially unjust and dangerous and there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or practice, anywhere in the world,” he noted. .

In the act, Sarrubo appointed another prosecutor to monitor the case.