Death threats for fighting the pandemic in Brazil

Sao Paulo, Feb 25 (EFE).- A self-declared neo-Nazi man stood in front of a camera and, while he killed a dog he proclaimed: "Look what is going to happen to you." The recipient of the video: the workers of the National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil.

The individual had no qualms about identifying himself, informing where he lives and threatening to go to Brasilia to "purify the land where Anvisa is, using blessed fuel" against the technicians who had approved the childhood vaccination against covid-19.

That is one of the more than 200 emails and phone calls with threats that professionals from the highest Brazilian health authority, including its directors, have received in recent months, according to sources inside the institution.

Footage by Carlos Meneses, Wallace Carvalho and from archive.

Statements by Yandra Torres, general director of the Anvisa Workers Association.

TRANSLATION:

"We have had a few difficult months, there has been an increase in attacks since October, which culminated in December with the approval of immunization with the Pfizer vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years. Since then we have felt an increase in hostility".

"He killed his own dog saying that the same could happen to Anvisa's employees and directors if they forced children to be vaccinated. He strangled the dog to death."