The Portuguese-Brazilian citizen, member of the far right, arrested on Tuesday morning (October 21) for incitement to hatred and for threatening Brazilian journalists working in Portugal is in preventive detention. This is a historic decision, since until now, no one indicted for threats and dissemination of hate speech had ever been subject to this measure of coercion.
Bruno Silva is “strongly indicted for having published a publication on social media in which he incites violence against a group of people of foreign nationality”explained the Judiciary Police on Tuesday, following the arrest of this extreme right-wing member.
Some of these threats took place against journalists Amanda Lima, from Diário de Notícias, and Stefani Costa, who filed a complaint.
Bruno Silva had, in September, published comments apologizing for neo-Nazis on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
In another publication offered an “apartment in the center of Lisbon to anyone who carried out a massacre and exterminated certain foreign citizens and an additional bonus of 100 thousand euros to anyone who attempted to kill a Brazilian journalist working in Portugal”.
According to the PJ, “the aforementioned publication went viral, with enormous repercussion and social alarm, seriously affecting the feeling of tranquility, security and public peace, generating indignation and rejection in various quarters”.
Bruno Silva has a criminal record for crimes of discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence, and “vast pieces of evidence relating to his ideological radicalism” were seized, explained the PJ