Lula says Ganga asked him to fight a “harder battle” in the war against “men’s violence against women.”

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– What is happening in the head of this animal, which is considered the smartest animal on the planet Earth, because of all this violence? I woke up on Sunday to have breakfast, and at breakfast Ganga started crying. At night, when Ganga saw a wonderful movie, she cried again. Yesterday he cried again. I asked today on the plane: Lula, take responsibility for a more stringent fight against violence by men against women – said the President.

The President pointed to three episodes that resonated last week:

— This week, there was a man who shot his wife with a gun. Another killed his pregnant wife and three children and set fire to the house. There was another person who ran over the woman and dragged her for a distance of one kilometre. This woman will live after her legs are amputated – Lula remembers.

• In Rio, João Antonio Miranda Tello Ramos used a 380-caliber Glock pistol registered in his name to kill 41-year-old director Alan de Souza Pedrotti Matos and psychiatrist Liz Costa Pinheiro inside a federal school. He was also a servant there. Shortly after the two women were killed, the shooter was found dead, with the rifle and dozens of ammunition next to him.
• A woman, three children and an infant died on Saturday, after a fire engulfed 20 homes in the Ecua community, in the Caxanga neighbourhood, in the western region of Recife. According to witnesses, the victim’s companion was suspected of setting fire to the place and was executed by residents. He was caught red-handed by the military police
• In São Paulo, 31-year-old Tainara Sousa was dragged for about 1 km along Marginal Tete, in the northern region of São Paulo. The young woman’s relatives claim that the driver who was caught red-handed, 26-year-old Douglas Alves da Silva, had a short and on-off relationship with her. He is accused of intentionally causing the accident out of jealousy when he saw her in a bar with another man.

– The question I ask is: Does the Brazilian Penal Code provide a punishment to do justice to an irrational animal like this? Are we sorry about this? If a man has money, like the man who punched his wife 60 times in the face, if he has money, he goes to prison for two years and goes out on the street to beat up another woman. “The poor wretched man who steals bread to eat and does not even have a lawyer has no judge to set him free,” he said – he said:

Lula also defended the importance of education in shaping citizenship among men and women, stating that men needed to be “teachers” to each other. Between January and October this year, the city of São Paulo recorded 53 femicides, the highest number since the start of the historical series, in April 2015. Even without the data from November and December, 2025 already exceeds the annual record, which was 51 last year.