Jair Bolsonaro ignored protests from different journalists after the remarks and left. (File)
Sao Paulo:
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday threatened to punch a reporter repeatedly within the mouth after being requested about his spouse’s hyperlinks to an alleged corruption scheme.
“I so need to pound your mouth with punches,” the far-right president mentioned when a reporter from O Globo, posed the query.
The reporter was a part of a gaggle that met Bolsonaro after his common Sunday go to to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasilia. The president ignored protests from different journalists after the remarks and left with out making additional feedback.
The O Globo reporter requested a few report within the journal Crusoe linking First Woman Michelle Bolsonaro to Fabricio Queiroz, a retired police officer, pal of the president, and former adviser to her son Flavio Bolsonaro, who’s now a senator.
Queiroz and Flavio Bolsonaro are beneath investigation for a scheme that allegedly swindled pay from authorities staff when the youthful Bolsonaro was a regional lawmaker in Rio de Janeiro, and earlier than Jair Bolsonaro grew to become president in January 2019.
In accordance with the journal, Queiroz deposited funds in Michelle Bolsonaro’s checking account between 2011 and 2016.
The primary girl has mentioned nothing in regards to the case.
Quickly after the president’s outburst O Globo issued a press release repudiating his “aggression … in direction of a journalist from our newspaper that was finishing up his job in knowledgeable method.”
Such intimidation “reveals that Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t acknowledge the obligation of a public servant … to be accountable to the general public.”
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