Journalist and columnist Vera Magalhães was verbally attacked by State Rep. Douglas Garcia (R-P) during a São Paulo government candidate debate Tuesday night (13).

The journalist was approached by Douglas Garcia, who called her “a disgrace to Brazilian journalism”. – Photo: Twitter/Disclosure/ND

Vera was sitting watching the debate when Douglas Garcia approached her and called her “a disgrace to Brazilian journalism”. The same phrase was used by President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) when answering a reporter’s question during the first presidential debate on television on 28 August.

The congressman taking part in the debate was invited by the team of candidate Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), Douglas approached the journalist with a mobile phone in his hand, filming insults and provocations against the journalist.

Journalist Leão Serva, mediator of the debate, defended Vera and took the mobile phone from the hands of the deputy, throwing the device away.

Watch the moment:

Journalist Leão Serva, mediator of the debate, defended Vera and took the mobile phone from the hands of the deputy, throwing the device away. – Video: Twitter/Disclosure/ND

Vera had to leave, accompanied by security guards, from the debate at the Latin America Memorial. in your account on twitterVera Magalhaes said that she would file a statement about the threats to the deputy.

See what Vera wrote on her social networks:

I sat in the front row and looked at my cell phone. I’m going to file a threat report with LP MP Douglas Garcia. There are hundreds of witnesses. Took advantage of the invitation of Tarcisio Freitas staff to the debate only to lie, harass and threaten me.

— Vera Magalhaes (@veramagalhaes) September 14, 2022