The New Yorker Magazine (№ 14th June 2021) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2021-06-13T14:00:00+00:00

this assertion, producing a document don’t agree with what she did. I disagree was pending before an ethics committee.

showing that the treatment was paid for a hundred per cent.”

A few days after our first meeting,

by insurance. The police say that they

The witnesses who spoke on Flor-

Flordelis flew to Brasília, to seek support

found no evidence of sexual abuse, and delis’s behalf furiously proclaimed her from the head of the women’s congressional also point out that Simone had dated innocence. The daughter named Cris-caucus. A legislator had launched a pe-

Anderson before he married Flordelis—a tiana disputed claims of a conspiracy; tition to have her case expedited, citing relationship that Simone says amounted when Santos asked if there was a “law the grave charges. Flordelis argued that to nothing more than a few kisses.

of silence” in their house, she called the the urgency around her case was sexist: Simone admitted to authorities that story “an invention.” But the support-hundreds of Brazilian legislators have

she had supplied money to buy the ers’ testimony often led to more confu-faced charges, ranging from graft and

murder weapon. But, she said, she had sion. Another daughter, a twenty-one-money laundering to slavery.

lost track of the plot afterward, and year-old named Gabriela, spoke in an In Congress, we walked through

had been away from the compound the almost inaudible monotone, saying no empty hallways to the chamber where night of the killing, meeting a lover at to every question that Santos asked. As the legislature was in session. Flordelis a motel. She also denied taking part in she contradicted earlier testimony, which went in and returned a few moments the poisoning attempts, even though had implicated Flordelis, people on the later with her party’s leader, Diego Anthe police found records on her phone bench exchanged glances. Santos asked drade. As he scrutinized me, Flordelis of Google searches for “someone bad Gabriela if she had “taken something.” introduced me as “an important journal-ass,” “where to find killers,” and “easy-

She said no, in the same flat voice. “You ist from the United States.”

to-buy lethal poison to kill a person.” don’t seem normal,” Santos told her.

While Andrade spoke, Flordelis’s eyes

She maintains that a friend’s dog was Flordelis told me later that Gabriela flitted from him to me. He offered po-sick, and she hoped to put him out of had epilepsy, and had taken medicine litely that, after “the tragedy” of Ander-his misery.

for it before appearing in court. “I wanted son’s murder, Flordelis’s Party memberIn court, Flordelis denied know-

the judge to see that her testimony ship had been suspended until her name ing anything about sexual abuse. In a couldn’t be relied upon,” she said.

was cleared. He excused himself quickly,

subsequent TV interview, though, she

explaining that he was debating a bud-

claimed that abuse had driven Simone

get bill. Politicians from other parties

to mastermind the killing. “She carried For the time being, Flordelis couldn’t be prosecuted; Brazilian lawmakers seemed equally reluctant to associate it alone, in silence, these harassments, are granted immunity to criminal charges. with Flordelis. A few

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