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Olavo de Carvalho suffers defeat in court: "Don't offend civility"

"Writer Olavo de Carvalho is suing philosopher and professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Daniel Tourinho Peres. In the criminal action, the writer and guru of the Jair Bolsonaro government accuses the UFBA philosopher of slander and defamation. However, in the lawsuit, it is Olavo himself – through his lawyer – who offends Professor Tourinho Peres with vulgar and aggressive language," says Vinícius Segalla in Diario do Centro do Mundo.

Olavo de Carvalho suffers defeat in court: "Don't offend civility"

247 "Justice has had enough. Boorishness has lost its day. That's what can be inferred from the records of case number 1000250-02.2019.8.26.0050, which is being processed in the 2nd Criminal Court – Central Forum of Barra Funda – in São Paulo," says Vinícius Segalla in Diario do Centro do Mundo. "In it, the writer Olavo de Carvalho is suing the philosopher and professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Daniel Tourinho Peres. In the criminal action, the writer and guru of the Jair Bolsonaro government accuses the UFBA philosopher of slander and defamation. However, in the process, it is Olavo himself – through his lawyer – who offends Professor Tourinho Peres with vulgar and aggressive words."

"The legal document presented by Olavo to the São Paulo court is so absurd that Judge Daniela Martins de Castro Mariani Cavallanti, responsible for the trial, was forced to take a measure rarely seen in courts: she ordered Olavo de Carvalho to behave properly before the court. She ordered him to start the entire process again, this time without using insults and inappropriate terms. Finally, she said that she is making available to the UFBA professor all the insults he suffered from Olavo in this process, should he wish to sue Bolsonaro's guru himself," she added.

See what the judge wrote: "It has been verified that the initial pleading contains words that violate procedural rules related to courteous, civilized, and urbane language. The attorney appointed by the plaintiff, Dr. Francisco Carlos Cabrera de Oliveira, is hereby ordered to remove or replace offensive expressions from the criminal complaint filed, such as:" (i) “transvestite delinquent”; (ii) “case of possible schizophrenia”; (iii) “unwary or sick mind”; (iv) “narrated by the idiot”;(v) “only the bestial discourses”; (vi) “jargon that some disgusting people use; (vii) “through their own wickedness”; (viii) “this unqualified”; (ix) “scoundrels, scoundrels and scoundrels”.

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