Renan Santos Reports Anonymous Death Threat Before São Paulo Launch

Overview

• The campaign said it received a screenshot of an anonymous forum post that threatened to kill Renan Santos at his campaign launch in Largo São Francisco and forwarded the material to the Polícia Federal for probe.
• The message, titled “EU IREI MATAR RENAN SANTOS!”, claimed the author was armed and identified themselves as a law student at USP, but the original post was deleted and the sender of the screenshot said the student claim could not be verified.
• The screenshot was sent to the party on Friday, Aug. 14, and media reports show the post was published on Leftypol, an online discussion forum similar to Reddit, before being removed.
• Santos said he has faced recurring threats and described this post as the first to contain all elements of a possible attack; he and his team kept the event on the calendar and announced extra police and security at the launch.
• The Polícia Federal investigation is pending, no public attribution or arrests have been reported, and the episode highlights how anonymous online posts and campus tensions can raise real security risks ahead of political events.