The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, lost this Wednesday the process promoted by the award-winning journalist Patricia Campos Mello, of the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, for having offended her with sexist and sexual disqualifications.
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By 4 votes to 1, the Sao Paulo Court of Justice upheld the sentence imposed on Bolsonaro and raised the compensation to be paid to Campos Mello for offending the honor of the reporter, who among many awards holds the 2018 King of Spain Journalism Award.
“The TJ (Court of Justice) of SP (Sao Paulo) decided that it is not acceptable for a president of the Republic to offend a journalist, using sexual innuendo. A victory for all of us women,” Campos de Mello said in her networks. social.
Bolsonaro was sentenced in the first instance in February 2020 after the misogynist statement against Campos Mello, but appealed to a second instance courtwhich this Wednesday raised the compensation for moral damages to be paid by the leader of the extreme right from 20,000 reais (about 3,824 dollars) to 35,000 reais (about 6,700 dollars).
We win!!!! By 4×1, the TJ of SP decided that it is not acceptable for a President of the Republic to offend, using sexual insinuation, a journalist. A victory for all of us women. thank you brilliant @taisgasparian All of you for the mobilization, without you it would not be possible.
– Patricia Campos Mello (@camposmello) June 29, 2022
What was the case?
The journalist was the object of offenses after a report on the mass dissemination of false information in the 2018 elections, which was won by Bolsonaro, who is now seeking re-election.
The matter was investigated by a parliamentary commission and Hans River, a former employee of one of the companies allegedly responsible for the hoaxes in favor of Bolsonaro, accused the journalist of trying to “seduce” him and offer him “sex” in exchange for information.
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Folha de Sao Paulo He denied that accusation and published all the messages exchanged by the journalist with River, which, on the contrary, suggested that the informant himself came to propose greater intimacy, which was flatly rejected by Campos Mello.
Even so, the president attacked the reporter and in a statement before some followers, at the gates of his official residencesaid that “she wanted a ‘furo’ at all costs”, and thus used a word that in Spanish means hole or hole and in the jargon of Brazilian journalism means a first.
A victory for all of us women.
“He wanted to give the ‘furo’ at any price against me,” the president added in a mocking tone, giving that expression a vulgar twist that alludes to sexual offers.
After these statements, Campos Mello was the subject of a massive attack on social networks, in which deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the president, even participated, who echoed dozens of sexist messages against the reporter.
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