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Ricardo Salles overturns a delivery man’s motorcycle after having his entourage attacked at an event

Former Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, was involved in a mess in São Paulo, on Thursday night (1st).

After participating in an event at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), the car that Salles was driving was harassed in a student protest outside the university.

As he left the place, the politician hit a delivery man’s motorcycle, which was overturned.

Videos, which reverberated on social media this Friday (2), show the minister’s car accelerating to leave the scene without providing immediate assistance.

Shortly after what happened, Salles took to Twitter and claimed that his entourage was attacked.

“They threw stones, kicked the car and broke the windshield. “In the confusion, one of the cars overturned an almost stationary motorcycle. We spoke further ahead with the boy, who suffered nothing. And the motorcycle, nothing serious”, wrote the former minister.

This Friday (2), he also published on his Twitter a video with a statement from the motoboy who was involved in the confusion.

“I saw two cars leaving being cornered with several people, and then the car ended up hitting my motorcycle”, he reported.

The biker stated that he received a call from the ex-minister later, who offered hospital and financial assistance for the cost of damages to the motorcycle. “They gave me all the support,” he said.

wanted by CNN ESPM clarified that a space was provided on the university campus for a lecture-debate on the theme “Sustainability and Agribusiness”.

Ricardo Salles knocks down delivery man's motorcycle when leaving college amid attacks

“The event was promoted by study centers formed by students from six public and private universities in São Paulo,” ESPM said in a statement.

The university clarified that the debate was not its own initiative and did not involve the involvement of school officials, but the space was provided “because the topic [do evento] is of great relevance to Brazilian society”.

“ESPM is a non-partisan institution, which encourages and defends the diversity of ideas and opinions”, concludes the note.

wanted by CNN Salles’ party, the Liberal Party (PL), said it would not speak out.

ESPM student organizations spoke about Salles’ presence at the university.

The Centro Acadêmico 4 de Dezembro stated that it “repudiates this event [a palestra-debate] greatly” and called the idea of ​​the former minister’s presence at the college “absurd”.

“How can an institution, which claims to completely reject any manifestation of a political nature at the university, approve the entry of a political person like Ricardo Salles? This is something unbelievable, since, in addition to being posted on Salles’ profile, the event took place in one of the main auditoriums of the complex”, wrote the entity.

The ESPM Battery also stated that it “actively protested against the attitude during the performance of the lecture and comes to the public once again expressing huge dissatisfaction against the promoted event”.

“We do not agree with the political propaganda carried out within the areas of the faculty, much less with the presence of a politician who promotes topics of devastation, degradation and exclusion – not only environmental, but social”, he added.

Source: CNN Brasil

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