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Two reporters from NSC TV, an affiliate of TV Globo in Santa Catarina, were beaten while doing a report on the beach in Campeche, in Florianópolis.
Reporter Bárbara Barbosa and cameraman Renato Soder were working on a report on the breach of the state law prohibiting crowds during the new coronavirus pandemic, when they were aggressively approached by a group of people who were on the beach.
Two men advanced towards the camera to try to avoid filming and threatened to break the reporters’ equipment. One of them took the cell phone from the journalist, who had marks of aggression on her wrists.
In a note, the NSC Comunicação group described the attack as “an attempt to impede the work of the press, to make the facts known to the public,” a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
“The aggressors will be responsible for their actions. And we will continue to do what we do: professional, independent journalism that is essential to Santa Catalina society,” the NSC group reported.
The Catarinense Press Association, in a note, sympathized with the professionals and repudiated the aggression, which it described as cowardly. The organization also expressed concern about “the growing wave of violence against journalists and against journalism.”
According to Fenaj (National Federation of Journalists), the number of attacks on journalists rose from 135 in 2018 to 208 cases in 2019.
“Trying to silence the press is an irresponsible and dangerous attitude of people who flirt with authoritarianism without even understanding the historical implications of such an attitude. It is expected that the aggressors will be duly identified and punished in an exemplary manner, in accordance with the law,” he reported. the entity. .
The Catarinense Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters described the episode as unacceptable and stressed that “any type of intimidation or shame to the work of the reporter teams in their mission to inform the population is an attack on press freedom.”