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A man was beaten in a restaurant in the Água Verde neighborhood, in Curitiba, after coughing while having dinner with his partner last Thursday night (10). According to the Military Police, one of the clients choked and coughed a few times, which motivated a second consumer to enter into violence, accusing him of having covid-19.
According to the images from the security camera of the establishment, the attacker, who was also accompanied, changed tables to get away from the couple, who dined at the local counter. After staring at the partner for a few seconds, he gets up and kicks, hitting both the woman and the man. Then he throws a succession of blows and begins to point at them. The video, without sound, does not reveal what the man said.
In an interview with TV Globo, the couple, who did not want to identify themselves, declared that the attacker blamed the man for being with covid-19 and not respecting the isolation rules. “He kept hitting me. Then I came down, I didn’t know what to do. When I managed to get up, I saw what was happening. He told me, ‘you have a covid, you have a covid’. I said ‘no, I do not have covid,'” he reported.
According to the woman, the situation was “absurd”. “I think like this: if I have a concern about the virus and I don’t want to expose myself, I stay home. Imagine if I go to the supermarket or the pharmacy, I see someone coughing or sneezing and putting the person on board and will I accuse him of covid?” , I ask.
The man also claims that, after suffering the violence, the aggressor reported that he would have relatives hospitalized due to the disease. “I said my father passed away 3 months ago and that’s not why I go out and attack people,” he said.
The Civil Police said they were investigating the case and “taking all appropriate measures.” The institution did not say if it identified the perpetrator and for what crime he would be charged.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Paraná has registered 315 thousand cases and 6,595 deaths, according to the state Health Secretariat, in Curitiba there are 92,530 cases and 1,903 deaths from the disease.
