The present article brings up the issue of fear in the cities through the analysis of a showcase situation ¾ one of the inhabitants of Vila Jardim, a neighborhood in the north of the city of Porto Alegre/RS. This inhabitant was sent to prison twice, on the second time for a crime he had not committed, right after he had denounced to a Human Rights office. It concerns to a young afro-descendent man, being 26 years old at the time, a worker employed by a construction firm, scholarship consisting of uncompleted elementary school. This article makes a reflection on fear and urban violence associated to the Law System and the issues of justice, injustice, fate, hamartia.
fear; human rights; justice; violence