Rabat – She was NOT going to let him get away with it. “Never do this to a woman,” said an indignant Brazilian reporter, Julia Guimaraes, when a fan rushed toward her and tried to kiss her while she was filming a live World Cup broadcast before the Japan-Senegal game.
The journalist of TV Globo and SportTV, who dodged the kiss, was quick to put the brazen fan in his place. “Don’t do that! Never do that again,” she shouted at her attacker, who began apologizing.
“Do not do that, I do not allow you to do that, ever, OK? It’s not polite, it’s not good. Never do that to a woman, okay? Respect,” she said.
On social media, the Brazilian journalist was praised for her quick response to her harasser. She also tweeted about the encounter: “It’s hard to find the words … Fortunately, I have never experienced in Brazil. Here, it happened twice. Sad! Ashamed!”
Female reporters covering the 2018 World Cup have been subject to sexual harassment from football fans, including being groped on live television and being criticized for the pitch of their voices, according to the Washington Post.
On the opening day of the World Cup, a Colombian journalist was sexually assaulted when a fan grabbed her breast and kissed her on her cheek. The offender then apologized publicly.
