Argentine lawyer Agostina Páez, detained in Brazil on charges of racial insult for making discriminatory gestures, stated that a police officer was violent with her and created obstacles in the investigation, however, she met with the Argentine consul. As learned by the Argentine News Agency (NA), and as the 29-year-old young woman indicated in television statements, the lawyer stated: "I did not intend to discriminate, much less to be racist because I am Argentine and a lawyer." Likewise, the Argentine official in Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Enrique Perrén, received her along with her lawyers. Perrén pointed out that they sought to "polish the defense" and recommended to the family the possibility of hiring a local private lawyer, since an appointed lawyer would have "stretched the deadlines." For her part, the young woman indicated that the gesture in question corresponded to "an emotional reaction" and added: "I never imagined the seriousness that it could imply, as well as not being able to go out on the street, living in fear that they will do something to me."
"They set me up," the lawyer detailed. Finally, the young woman asked: "I want to return to Argentina and continue the process from home." "It's not just what happened that day, but everything that comes after," the text states. "The same police officer who is part of this process, he was violent with me in other ways, when he should have acted like the others," she referred. "The uniformed officer puts obstacles, does things he shouldn't do, and is the one who continues my case, but he does not treat me well," continued Páez, before referring to the "exemplary" campaigns against racism that spread her identity.
"I don't understand why they made the spot with my image. That is a very humiliating situation for me. I don't know why me, just now. I had to move very far away because my address was already being leaked." Likewise, she revealed: "Although the majority of the police officers treated me well, there is one who made me suffer. They are using me as an example. Although there are other detainees, I don't understand the persecution."
