Reporters attacked by Jair Bolsonaro’s safety brokers in Rome

Brazilian reporters had been allegedly attacked by Jair Bolsonaro’s safety element whereas they had been overlaying the president’s journey to Rome for the G20 summit, based on native media.
Bolsonaro has had a hostile relationship with the press and has lengthy accused journalists of publishing faux information and treating him unfairly.
The alleged assaults passed off because the far-right president was out on the streets of the Italian capital on Sunday, assembly some Brazilians dressed within the nationwide crew shirts.
He was loudly criticized for his mishandling of Brazil’s coronavirus disaster, with some calling him “genocidal.”
Phones snatched
Videos of the incident recorded by reporters confirmed the bodyguards jostling with the journalists, pushing them out of the road whereas Bolsonaro took selfies and talked to his supporters.
One of the movies taken by UOL journalist Jamil Chade confirmed chaotic scenes of the safety workers shoving him as supporters of the president chanted abuses at reporters.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for the G20 leaders summit in Rome, Italy October 30, 2021. (Reuters)
A safety officer twisted his arm and snatched away his cellphone with which he had recorded the assaults, Chade informed information company EFE.
Scolded by different reporters, the officer threw the cellphone on the bottom, which was recovered by Chade, he mentioned.
Punched within the abdomen
Broadcast journalist Leonardo Monteiro of TV Globo was punched within the abdomen and pushed by one of many bodyguards after asking Bolsonaro why he didn’t attend any G20 occasions on Sunday, newspaper O Globo reported.
“Globo vehemently condemns the aggression against its correspondent Leonardo Monteiro and other colleagues in Rome and demands a complete assessment of responsibilities,” TV Globo mentioned in a press release.

It wasn’t instantly clear whether or not the bodyguards, wearing civilian garments, had been Brazilian or Italian.
Reporter to file compliant
Ana Estela De Sousa, Europe correspondent of the Brazilian day by day Folha de S.Paulo mentioned she was “pushed and brutally treated” by the officers.
“It is unacceptable. We are going to file a complaint,” she informed information company AFP.
“In the 20 years that I have been covering trips of presidents and events of this type, nothing like this has ever happened to me.”
Bolsonaro remoted
The Brazilian president was not a part of the picture of G20 leaders taken on the Trevi fountain, and movies from the occasions confirmed him as an remoted determine.
The far-right local weather skeptic is not going to be attending the COP26 Climate Change summit in Glasgow both.