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"Call of Duty Mobile": murder of 19

2021-02-25T15:31:17.842Z


The e-athlete »Sol« was killed in Brazil. The alleged perpetrator is only 18 years old and had apparently planned his act. He played the same mobile phone game as the young woman.


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"Call of Duty Mobile": The mobile game is not only popular in Brazil

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Brazil's e-sports scene mourns the loss of an ambitious player in the mobile phone game "Call of Duty Mobile".

As various local media report, Ingrid Oliveira Bueno da Silva alias »Sol« - in German sun - was stabbed to death on Monday.

She was only 19 years old.

News of her death is now mainly on gaming websites around the world.

Krony, the person responsible for the e-sports team FBI eSports, for which »Sol« competed in the shooter, published a sad message on Instagram.

"She was an extraordinary person," it says.

They will be remembered "every day the sun rises, every day the sunlight touches our body, every time we look at the sun."

According to the Brazilian media, another "Call of Duty Mobile" player who appeared under the name "Flashlight" and is only 18 years old is responsible for the death of "Sol".

Apparently he acted with intent, statements made by "Flashlight" to the police indicate.

A video recording of the alleged perpetrator's arrest is circulating online, during which someone asks him whether he committed the murder.

"Yes," he says, grinning at the camera.

"Because I wanted to."

Met through her hobby

He and "Sol" met about their passion for "Call of Duty Mobile" a month ago, according to the media reports.

The current meeting was their first offline encounter.

The body of the e-athlete was found in the apartment of "Flashlight" in Pirituba, a district in the north of São Paulo.

According to the news site »R7« he had turned himself in to the police and confessed to the crime.

Before his arrest, the gamer circulated recordings of the corpse and a 52-page manifesto allegedly including terrorist plans via the internet and WhatsApp groups.

The gamer seems to be a typical representative of the incel scene, which is known for its hatred of women.

In an email he wrote that he had developed a strong hatred of women in recent years.

He describes the murder as a "commendable act."

Femicides - this means murders of women because they are women - are a major social problem in Brazil.

According to the “Atlas da Violência 2020” (Atlas of Violence), a woman was murdered every two hours in 2018, around 70 percent of the victims were black women.

Similar to other countries, the gaming scene in Brazil has a reputation for being a difficult place for women.

Anyone who plays online as a woman is in the minority in games like "Call of Duty Mobile" and is quickly confronted with hostility.

The news from Pirituba caused horror on the Internet.

"When we preach that the gaming scene is toxic for women, that's what we're talking about," wrote a gamer from Rio de Janeiro on Twitter.

»It hurts, suppresses, hurts and kills - and it doesn't always have to be as blatant as this hate and gender crime.

All women are vulnerable. "

The e-sports team Jaguares wrote that women report assaults on a daily basis, but that society hardly takes any notice.

“It's no different in esports.” Also in the scene of “Call of Duty Mobile”, where women's teams meet men's teams, many female players are threatened.

The team calls on gamers to stand up against violence: "Femicides must not be tolerated."

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Source: spiegel

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