Patrícia Lélis was assaulted by an MBL activist at the university.
Journalist Patrícia Lélis was attacked by a militant of the Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Movement) when she was leaving college on Thursday night (31); Meire Cruvinel, from MBL, said she would pass on the times when Patrícia is at college to Congressman Marco Feliciano (PSC-SP) and threatened to kill the journalist.
Forum Magazine - During the night of this Thursday (31), journalist and Fórum collaborator, Patrícia Lélis, was attacked by a militant of the MBL (Movimento Brasil Livre). According to reports, Meire Cruvinel approached the young woman, who was getting into her car as she left the college where they both study, and tried to pull her out.
“I was walking calmly to my car, which was parked in front of the college. When I got in the car, she came and opened the door. I got scared, and my first reaction was to close the car door. I tried to lock it, but then she opened the door again and started cursing at me,” he described. “She started cursing at me, she assaulted me, because she pulled me by the arm to get me out of the car, and it left a mark.”
Patrícia also recounted that Meire started saying "absurd things." "She said she wanted my address because she was going to give it to Feliciano and said that I deserved to be raped again, deserved to be assaulted again. That if it were up to her, she would personally go to Feliciano to give him my address and tell him what times I'm at college so he could come after me. She even said she wanted to kill me," she reported.
A security guard from IDP, the Brazilian Institute of Public Law, intervened and removed Meire from the premises. “The college security guard accompanied me home because she had already said she was going to come after me,” she recounted. Patrícia filed a police report at the Special Police Station for Women (DEAM) and has already undergone a forensic medical examination at the Institute of Legal Medicine. The journalist also filed a request for a precautionary measure against Meire Cruvinel.
The incident reportedly began in the classroom when Patrícia sat in Meire's seat. “I was saving a seat for a friend and put my bag next to me. She came over and said rudely, 'Take that bag away from here now.' She yelled that across the room. I stayed quiet, took my bag, put it on my lap, apologized, and kept to myself.”
Shortly after, Patrícia saw Meire with an article on her laptop about the case involving the journalist and Congressman Marco Feliciano (PSC-SP). “Right after, she closed that article and the background on her computer screen said: 'God save me from the left.' So I took a picture of that computer screen and posted it on my personal Facebook, without showing her face or mentioning her name.”
Patrícia also said that she has been provoked since the beginning of the semester. “Throughout last week she referred to me with insulting, slanderous words. She called me a pathological liar, a liar, and the people in the classroom witnessed it. I also remained silent.”
The IDP management scheduled an internal meeting this Friday to discuss the matter. We contacted Meire Cruvinel to get her version of events, but we have not received a response as of the publication of this report.