"My death was decreed on the day of my arrest," the rector said in a note.
The suspended rector of UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Luiz Carlos Cancellier de Olivo, who was found dead this morning in a shopping mall in Florianópolis, left the following note, according to the newspaper Diário Catarinense: "My death was decreed on the day of my arrest." Cancellier was the target of a Federal Police investigation, was arrested, and released the following day. In an article published four days ago, he vehemently denied the accusations and denounced the "humiliation" to which he was subjected.
247 – The suspended rector of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Luiz Carlos Cancellier de Olivo, reportedly wrote the following note before committing suicide on the morning of Monday, February 2nd: "My death was decreed on the day of my arrest."
The phrase was published by columnist Moacir Pereira, from Diário Catarinense, who attributes the information to a source within the Civil Police of the State.
"The rector was unable to neutralize the political, social, and psychological effects of his arrest in Operation Deaf Ears. Having dedicated his entire life to the University and to education, he saw decades of academic and political effort crumble overnight," comments the DC journalist.
"According to his closest friends, he lived through terrible days in prison. He began a depressive episode, received psychiatric counseling, and took medication to counteract the psychological impact of imprisonment and the entire humiliating process he was subjected to," they further describe. Read here The full text.
On site News of the dayThe journalist Carlos Damião described his last meeting with the professor. "It's something I'll never recover from," Cancellier told him, also referring to the investigation he was the target of and which he maintained he was innocent of.