As the Brazilian president was meeting some of his supporters in Rome, his bodyguards attacked journalists there.Journalists say they will file a complaint against Bolsonaro with the police department.
Italian Capital Rome
According to local media in the Italian capital Rome, the bodyguards of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro allegedly attacked the Brazilian journalists who were covering them during the G20 summit.The incident took place on the streets of Rome as the president was talking to some of his supporters.
President Bolsonaro has long had poor relations with the media and has accused journalists of publishing fake news and treating him unfairly.
The attack on journalists took place on Sunday as the hard-line Brazilian president was meeting with some of his supporters dressed in Brazilian national team uniforms in the streets of Rome.
President Bolzoni has been widely criticized for failing to cope with the Corona virus crisis in Brazil, with some calling his behavior "genocidal."
Mobile Phone Snatched
Some journalists have also made video footage of the attack, in which the president's bodyguards can be seen arguing with journalists there.Pushing them off the street while President Bolsonaro is talking to his supporters and taking selfies.
Journalist Jamil Syed shot a similar video in which the chaos of the time can be seen.The guards are pushing him while the supporters of the president present there are cursing the journalists.
EFE News Agency
Jamil Syedne told the EFE news agency that a security officer twisted his arm and snatched the phone from which he had recorded the scene of the attack.He said that when other reporters shouted at the security guards, an officer threw the phone on the ground and the phone hit him again.
Punched in the stomach
According to the Globe, when Leonardo Montero, a journalist with the TV Globe, asked the Brazilian president why he was absent from key G20 meetings on Sunday and why he was not attending.One of the president's bodyguards punched him in the stomach and then pushed him away.
"The Globe strongly condemns this aggression against its correspondent Leonardo Montero and other colleagues and calls on the authorities to conduct a full review," the TV Globe said in a statement.
Journalists will file complaints
Anna Estella de Sosa, a correspondent for the leading Brazilian daily in Europe, Folha de Palo, said she had been "pushed and brutalized" by security officials."It's unacceptable," he told AFP.We are going to file a complaint.I have been covering presidential tours in Europe for the last twenty years, but this has never happened before.It has never happened to me before. "
Bolsonaro was isolated
A joint photo of the G20 leaders taken on Italy's famous Trevi Fountain does not show the Brazilian president and the videos that have surfaced so far regarding the summit also show Bolsonaro completely isolated.As a falling person can be seen.
The far-right Brazilian president is also skeptical about climate change and will not attend a conference in Glasgow.
(AFP, EFE, Reuters)
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