"We don't protect you, Lara." Pedro Chagas Freitas reacts to girl's death

Pedro Chagas Freitas was not indifferent to the tragic death of eight-year-old little Lara, who was murdered by her own stepmother. The crime occurred in Valpaços, for “vengeance”, after Eulália’s husband, Carlos, had misunderstanding with his son due to a fight among the children. 

The writer made an emotional sharing on social networks where he laments the event, assuming a collective guilt due to the fact that the girl was not protected. 

“Excuse us. We don't protect you. We leave you alone in the midst of our wars, our miseries. You were eight years old. You shouldn't worry about the disgusting hatred of those who say they're bigger than you, you shouldn't die because of him. I'm ashamed of my kind. Revenge is a fatal disease. One of the most lethal diseases that human beings have invented. And especially one of the stupidest: one of the most liars. Promises to finish a pain, repair injustice, balance the balance, return what was lost ", said the writer.

“Lie. Revenge returns nothing; it only steals more and more and more. Adds corpses, suffering, pain, darkness. Revenge is an infinitely hungry beast. It starts in one person, then moves on to another, and another, and another. In a moment, we no longer know where it started, where it came from. There are whole families destroyed like this, people who spend decades feeding a wound that eventually becomes the only identity they have left. Revenge creates priests of their own suffering. People who think they spread justice and only spread monstrosity. I think it's in the middle of fucking revenge that monsters are born. All villains begin in revenge”, he added.

“ You knew, didn't you, Lara? Anyone who spends too much time talking to the monster stops distinguishing his voice from his. I don't want to justify what they did to you. There are things that cannot be acquitted. They can be analyzed, studied. They can't be acquitted. Children live dependent on the kindness of adults. They don't choose parents, houses, conflicts, environments, wars. They're put in the center of them, they expect us to do our job. It's mankind's most basic contract. The most sacred of all. We didn't do it, Lara. We didn't do it. I believe that the greatness of a society is measured by the way it treats those who are unable to defend themselves: a child, an elderly person, a sick person, anyone vulnerable. This is where we see who we are”, wrote Chagas Freitas.

“ We're scum, Lara. No adult war is worth a child. Sorry, sorry. Rest in peace. If you succeed, forgive us”, concluded the writer.

 

 

 

 

 

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