Journalist Wesley Costa, from the newspaper Para y Liberal, claims he was slapped in the face. The attacker will be the mayor of Parauapebas (PA), Aurelio Goiano (Avante).
The attack could have happened on Friday (14), at the car studios at the COP30 conference. In a video posted on social media, the politician says that he was the one who was attacked by Costa.
When contacted by the conference organization for the report, it said only that the case was under investigation.
The journalist filed a police report, as did two producers, who were reportedly insulted and said they had received a report from the United Nations stating that the city’s mayor’s accreditation had been suspended.
the Bound He tried to contact the press office of the Parauapebas City Council on Saturday (15), but had not received any response as of the publication of this report.
The mayor said, in a video clip he posted on his Instagram account, that “everything was invented to try to distort our image.” He added: “This reporter was hitting us. He asked us to record an interview with him, and I went there quietly. When the gossip started, I let it go. Many things add up. You know how she is, how she works.”
Costa says the mayor was disturbed by a video he posted on social media, showing Goiano speaking with the Minister of the Presidential Secretariat, Guilherme Boles (PSOL), at the COP30 conference, followed by excerpts in which he was supposedly Bolsonari. In the caption, he described him as “Bolsonaro’s ex-boyfriend.”
“The video with Paul had a very negative impact on his city, and he was upset,” Costa says. The journalist reported that the next day, the mayor’s advisor called him and offered to interview Goiano at the studio of the O Liberal group, in the Blue Zone.
Costa says Goiano arrived at the studio cursing two producers, and shortly thereafter left. “I didn’t care about it because it was in the air,” he says.
According to the journalist, the mayor returned when the program ended. “He called me a scoundrel, a tramp, and a thief. I was sitting on the floor. Then I got up and went to talk to him. Then he slapped me in the face. My glasses flew off, and I felt a little dizzy. He said it was so I could learn to respect him.”
The journalist stated that the slap was “very violent, with a full hand”: “He is a tall and strong man, much bigger than me.” According to him, his colleagues who witnessed what happened ran after the mayor and called United Nations Security.
He says: “They took him to one room, and I went to another room. They wanted to understand what happened. I was taken to the medical center, and when I left there, I discovered that he had left. So I went to the police station to file a report with the police.”
“In the bulletin, I reported several crimes: unlawful embarrassment, bodily harm, slander, defamation and insult. The producers referred to a sex-related crime.”
He says his lawyer also filed an injunction so that the politician cannot approach the Blue Zone.
Costa criticizes the work of the United Nations security forces. “I thought it was terrible. I think they opened an investigation, but the mayor should have left the place caught red-handed. But they said they didn’t have the jurisdiction to take him to the police station.”
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