(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 November 2006, Roberto de Lima, a reporter with Red Globo television network’s local affiliated station TV Tem, was assaulted by Walter José Tardelli, attorney to Màrio Sérgio do Lago Ramos Neto, a professional wrestler. The reporter was recording Neto leaving the police station of the town of Piedade, where he had […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 November 2006, Roberto de Lima, a reporter with Red Globo television network’s local affiliated station TV Tem, was assaulted by Walter José Tardelli, attorney to Màrio Sérgio do Lago Ramos Neto, a professional wrestler.
The reporter was recording Neto leaving the police station of the town of Piedade, where he had been taken after a traffic accident, when his attorney hit Lima in an attempt to stop him videotaping his client. The town of Piedade lies inland from the city of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil.
Lima filed a complaint at the police station.
This alert was prepared by IPYS with information provided by the Brazilian Investigative Journalism Association (Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo, ABRAJI).
