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The Regional Nursing Council of the Federal District (Coren-DF) identified three pro-Bolsonaro protesters who attacked nurses during a peaceful act held at Praça dos Três Poderes, in Brasilia. The agency gathered all the evidence from the attacks and will prosecute them.
The act of the group of 60 nurses to improve working conditions and the maintenance of social isolation took place in silence on the morning of this Friday the 1st, in the square that is surrounded by the Planalto Palace, the National Congress and the Supreme Court Federal. The nurses, dressed in lab coats and with protective masks, stood in rows, holding crosses and respecting the recommended distance of at least one meter between each one.
On the posters, phrases like “grieving nursing for professionals who are victims of covid-19. Stay home.” The event also paid tribute to the memory of the 55 nurses, technicians and assistants who have already lost their lives in the front line of the fight against the coronavirus.
The demonstration was peaceful, until a man and a woman dressed in green and yellow, with a Brazilian flag, shouted for physical and verbal attacks against the nurses who participated in the act. One of the nurses, who protested silently and did not react, was violently pushed by the attacker.
The nurses were called “shameless,” “cowardly,” and “functional illiterate.” Finally, the nurses had to leave the scene accompanied by the military police.
A third person who was part of the group of attackers made a video and published on social networks, saying that the protest was “false news”, that homeless people had been approached and convinced to wear white coats to pass by doctors. After exceeding 20,000 views, the video was removed, according to Coren.
The council said it had gathered all the evidence and would prosecute each for the acts. “The ignorance and violence perpetrated against Nursing in the Federal District, in the middle of Labor Day, will not go unpunished, they will be answered in court, so that they are not repeated,” the agency declared.
Unfortunately, Coren said, “the episode portrays the sad reality of thousands of nursing professionals, who work to save lives and suffer violence in the country’s hospitals, silent and silent, with no possibility of defending themselves.”
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