President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) this Friday (12th) denied having attended a luncheon in Belo Horizonte with Guilherme de Pádua, convicted of the murder of actress Daniella Perez.
He claimed there was a “frivolous exploitation” of Gloria Perez’s daughter’s death in the case. “I didn’t even attend lunch in Belo Horizonte,” he said, adding that he was at a steakhouse in São Paulo at the same time.
Videos were posted on social media showing Bolsonaro being booed and supported at the Laço de Ouro steakhouse in São Paulo on Sunday. “The person involved in this cruel and cowardly crime denies being present at the event,” he added.
Pádua, now pastor at Igreja Batista da Lagoinha in Belo Horizonte, did not attend the lunch, nor did Bolsonaro.
The first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, was at the event in the capital of Minas Gerais, where Padua’s wife, Juliana Lacerda, snapped a picture next to her.
The presidential couple had previously attended a service in the Lagoinha church on Sunday (7th).
The chief executive said he paid tribute to playwright Gloria Perez and criticized the press.
“My story of fighting for tougher laws on cowardly killers, rapists and other violent crimes speaks for me and shows which side I’ve always been on,” he added.
Juliana Lacerda also appeared on social networks this Friday (12) and said that the First Lady did not know her and that she was queuing to take the photo.
“I never exchanged a single word with her. Never really. She didn’t even know who I was. She just went there, kind as she is, an extremely simple person, a woman of God because I’m a fan and she took this picture with me,” she said.
Daniella Perez’s killer and his wife declare themselves Bolsonaro voters. At the beginning of the pandemic, in 2020, Guilherme de Pádua was in Brasília to demonstrate in support of the President amid the pandemic.
The President has never expressed his support for Guilherme de Padua.
The former actorturnedpastor’s name returned to the limelight with the premiere of the documentary miniseries Pacto Brutal, a fivepart work about the murder of actress Daniella Perez, who died on December 28, 1992 at the age of 22.
Her body was found by the police next to her car in the undergrowth of the previously sparsely populated Barra da Tijuca in western Rio de Janeiro. The victim had 18 punctures, most of which were concentrated in the heart region. A witness account led police to De Padua, a costar of the victim, and his thenwife Paula Thomaz.