President Lula (PT) defended that schools should remain open tomorrow and that Brazilians “should not please the terrorists who make threats”.
What happened:
The President said there was a need to find a way out of the recent attacks on schools and daycare centers across the country. The speech was delivered this afternoon during an educational event.
A dog that barks doesn’t bite. We don’t have to please the terrorists who make threats. We have to find a way out and yesterday I said that we don’t have specialists to understand this, but there are people who think that the solution is to raise the wall of the children’s room, put a metal detector in it, get a 6 yearold child goes through the metal detector.”
Lula, at an event this afternoon
Lula’s speech relates to the decision by some schools not to open tomorrow due to a series of April 20related threatsmarking the 24th anniversary of the attack on Columbine College in the town of Littleton, Colorado, United States.
In 1999, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 classmates and a teacher and then committed suicide. You were a third year of high school. Another 23 people were injured.
The concern is the socalled contagion effect, when information about an attack can encourage similar plans.
Yesterday the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, presented an assessment of the fight against violence in schoolswhich involves the removal of 756 profiles on social networks dedicated to the reproduction of hate.
The Ministry of Justice has set up a channel on the website to denounce websites, blogs and social media publications. The website for reporting is www.mj.gov.br/escolasegura