Let’s write a criticism article “sex relations at the expense of information” …Brazilian president’s last minute compensation

Brazilian President Zaire Bolsonaro (66) sexually harassed a female reporter who wrote criticism about him, and asked for compensation. President Bolsonaro, who was called the’extreme president’ and poured out various words, is calling for controversy that he is the worst politician ever infringed on freedom of speech.

On the 27th (local time), French 24 and other foreign media quoted AFP, saying, “President Bolsonaro should compensate reporter Campos Mello of the leading daily newspaper Folha De S. Paulo with 20,000 reals (about 4 million won). Reported the judgment of the Sao Paulo court. The court said, “Bolsonaru has caused serious moral damage by damaging the accuser’s reputation.” Since it is a first trial decision, President Bolsonaro can appeal.

The sexual harassment case dates back to February of last year. Reporter Melo has raised suspicions that during the 2018 presidential election campaign, then candidate Bolsonaro was involved in manipulation of social media opinions. It is said that some Brazilian companies used the messenger app’WhatsApp’ to launch a campaign in favor of Bolsonaro. In response, President Bolsonaru claimed that reporter Melo provided sexual intercourse to reporters in order to extract negative information about him, and reporter Melo sued Bolsonaru and his aides.

In this case, Congressman Eduardo, son of President Bolsonaro, was also held legally liable. According to the AFP, Congressman Eduardo also said, “Mello tried to sexually seduce the reporter to defame his father,” and was sentenced to a court ruling in January that he had to pay 5600 dollars (about 6.33 million won) worth of compensation.

President Bolsonaro, who was once nicknamed’Brazilian Trump’ for his extreme right tendencies, has set up an angle with the media criticizing him. According to CNN and others, in August of last year, he said to a reporter asking about the allegations of illegal financial transactions by his family, “I want to punch your mouth.” At the time, the reporter asked about the circumstances in which his eldest son, Senator Flavio, and a former aide, whom he had known for a long time, deposited money into the account of Bolsonaro’s wife. At the time, the local media criticized it as “a deadly response to a question that is sensitive to them.” According to a report from the Brazilian Journalists Association, recently reported by AFP, the number of infringements of press freedom in Brazil last year doubled compared to 2019, of which 40% were related to President Bolsonaro.

Recently, he has been criticized for being in a political corner. Brazil is considered one of the worst countries to fail to respond to Corona 19. According to the statistics of Corona 19 at Johns Hopkins University in the United States on the 28th, Brazil is the second country with the second largest number of confirmed cases after the United States, with a cumulative number of about 12.49 million. The cumulative number of deaths also exceeded 310,000. In particular, as a mutant virus from Brazil has spread throughout South America, it is emerging as a global corona 19 re-spreading site.

President Bolsonaro has been coping with ease since the first confirmed corona19 was discovered early last year. At the beginning of the outbreak, he rejected quarantine, saying that it was “like a mild cold,” and dismissed the health minister to follow the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO). Subsequently, the appointed successor of the health minister also resigned after a month after colliding with him over the COVID-19 policy. In May of last year, when the number of confirmed cases exploded, he was accused of holding a barbecue party on a jet ski. He said, “There is no need to worry about the virus infection when thinking about his athletic career,” he was confirmed as Corona 19 in July of last year.

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