Brazilian journalist Everaldo Fogaça was threatened by the head of the Federal Police, Eduardo Brun de Souza, according to the newspaper O Globo. Fogaça was testifying at police headquarters after being indicted for publishing on his news site the manifesto from a student group on strike at the Federal University of Rondônia.
According to the news site O Observador, for which Fogaça is the editor, the police officer lost control, insulted the journalist, and ordered the journalist's attorney to shut up.
The journalist said that the most tense moment at the police headquarters in Rondônia came when the officer said he would seize the journalist's home and location for the site O Observador.
I'm going to close this site,” the police agent shouted, according to the site Tudo Rondônia.
In related news, on Tuesday, Oct. 25, another local site in Rondônia, O RONDONIENSE, was visited by four armed federal police agents looking for a journalist who wrote about the arrest of a professor, reported the site Vilhena Hoje.
See below the journalist's testimony at police headquarters in Rondônia:
