The Court of Justice of the Federal District and Territories (TJDFT) sentenced Father José Cândido da Silva to compensate federal deputy Jean Wyllys for moral damages, after the cleric spread fake news about the parliamentarian. In the sentence, judge Manuel Eduardo Pedroso Barros stipulated the amount of R$15 that must be paid to Jean. When ruling in favor of the deputy, and against the fake news that is gaining more and more space in “journalism”, the judge even cited the judge of the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro (TJ-RJ), Marília de Castro Neves Vieira, who spread fake news in relation to PSOL councilor Marielle Franco, murdered last week. “The appeals to 'fake news' have such influential potential that, recently, we saw a judge from the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice commenting as true the possible criminal involvements of councilor Marielle Franco”, states the judge. Read also: PSOL denounces judge for ordering the shooting of Jean Wyllys ZOOFILIA The case filed by Jean Wyllys against José Cândido is a precedent of a case that happened in 2015, when the cleric stated on the program “Questões de Fé”, on TV Horizonte, that the PSOL parliamentarian was the author of a Bill (PL) to legalize the union between humans and animals. The false project that never existed, and also involved the name of federal deputy Maria do Rosário (PT-RS), caused serious inconvenience to Wyllys who had to speak out on several occasions denying the existence of the PL. In the opinion, the judge points out that, when spreading the lie, the priest relied on a humorous Facebook page, in which the author himself makes it clear that it is fiction. “Really, given what is in the case file, there is no way to accept the defendant’s thesis of absence of guilt. Your font is a real joke. The defendant could never have gone on a television program to seriously comment on news taken from Mr. Joselito Muller, instilling falsehoods about the author in the minds of his audience.” Read also: Marielle's sister and wife ask YouTube to remove fake news TARGET The only openly homosexual parliamentarian in Congress, Jean Wyllys is one of the main targets of fake news in Brazil. The Rio deputy has already been accused of planning a kind of tour of the country's schools, alongside Pabllo Vittar to “teach” gender to children; author of a proposal to remove excerpts from the Bible; that black people cannot be evangelicals, among others. Recently, Wyllys began exposing the profiles of those responsible for spreading these fabrications, claiming he is “tired” of denouncing his tormentors and nothing being done. “They are normal people like you and me (…) what no one knows is that, after midnight, in the darkness of the room, with the computer connected to the internet, they take on another character.
