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Volleyball Olympic champion suspended after glorifying violence against Lula

His apology and relativization didn't help: Brazil's Olympic volleyball champion Wallace de Souza has been suspended indefinitely by his club because of a publication glorifying violence against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on social media.

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Volleyball Olympic champion suspended after glorifying violence against Lula

His apology and relativization didn't help: Brazil's Olympic volleyball champion Wallace de Souza has been suspended indefinitely by his club because of a publication glorifying violence against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on social media. The club has taken action in response to the incident, said Sada Cruzeiro Vôlei from near the city of Belo Horizonte. The penalty applies immediately.

Wallace had started a poll among his fans who would shoot Lula in the face and vote "yes" or "no" - followed by an angel emoji. Following a question and answer session with his followers on Instagram, one of his fans, looking at a photo of de Souza holding a gun, asked, "Would you shoot Lula in the face with that 12mm pistol?"

As requested by Cruzeiro, de Souza apologized in a video on Instagram. "Anyone who knows me knows that under no circumstances would I incite violence, especially against our President," he said. "It was an unfortunate post, I made a mistake."

For de Souza, his derailment is likely to have further consequences: The National Olympic Committee (COB) and the Brazilian government called his behavior "unacceptable" and announced steps against the Olympic champion.

The 35-year-old, who won gold with the Brazilian national team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, is a fervent supporter of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro. The right-wing politician was slightly inferior to Lula in the runoff election in October. Wallace is known for sharing Bolsonaro's gun-friendly policies

Thousands of supporters of former President Bolsonaro storm and vandalize Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace in Brazil's capital, Brasilia.

Source: WORLD | Perdita Heise and Tobias Kaufer

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