Judge sentenced Jair Bolsonaro to compensate journalist for offending her with a macho and sexual tone

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro must compensate journalist Patricia Campos Mello of the newspaper Newspaper, for offending her with Disqualifications of a macho and sexual tinge, the newspaper itself reported this Saturday.

The decision was rendered by Judge Inah de Lemos e Silva, of a court in Sao Paulo, who He valued the compensation at 20,000 reais (approximately $ 3,700) and also ordered Bolsonaro to pay court costs and attorney’s fees.

Campos Mello, who among many prizes holds the 2018 King of Spain Journalism Prize, was the target of these offenses after a report on the massive dissemination of false information in the 2018 elections, won by the extreme Bolsonaro right.

The case was examined by a parliamentary committee and Hans River, former employee of one of the companies allegedly responsible for “fake news” in favor of Bolsonaro, accused the journalist of trying to “seduce” him and offer him “sex” in exchange for information .

Newspaper He denied this accusation and published all the messages the journalist exchanged with River, which instead suggested that the informant himself had come to offer greater confidentiality, which was categorically rejected by Campos Mello.

Even like that, The president attacked the journalist and in a statement in front of some followers, at the gates of his official residence, declared that “she wanted a ‘furo’ at all costs”, and thus used a word which in Spanish means hole or hole the jargon of Brazilian journalism is a first.

“I wanted at all costs to give the ‘furo’ against me”, added the president in a mocking tone, giving this expression. a vulgar twist that alludes to sexual offerings.

After these statements, Campos Mello was the subject of a massive attack on social networks, in which even the deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the president, participated, which echoed dozens of sexist messages against the journalist.

President Bolsonaro, who almost daily disqualifies journalists and mainstream media, has not commented on the issue, which he has decided. the judge assumed an “attack on the honor of a woman, to whom moral damage has been caused which must be repaired”.

With information from EFE

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