Bolsonaro ambassador threatens to choke Macron and insults wife Brigitte amid Amazon fires row: 'He
Bolsonaro ambassador threatens to choke Macron and insults wife Brigitte amid Amazon fires row: 'He sleeps with a dragon'
Renzo Gracie launches homophobic and misogynistic attack against France's president and first lady
Tom Embury-Dennis @tomemburyd
15 hours ago
Brazil's tourism ambassador has threatened to choke Emmanuel Macron and called his wife Brigitte ugly amid a continuing war of words between the French president and the Brazilian government over the fires in the Amazon rainforest.
In a video posted on social media, Renzo Gracie accused Mr Macron, who has criticised Brazils response to the devastating blazes, of talking rubbish about his country.
The only fire going on is the fire inside Brazilian hearts and our presidents heart, you clown. Come over here youll be caught by the neck, that chicken neck. You dont fool me, said Mr Gracie, a 52-year-old mixed martial arts fighter appointed to public office last month by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's far-right president.
In a subsequent interview with Brazilian news outlet UOL, Mr Gracie complained tourism appeared to be declining in the country due to the false fires, claiming without evidence that the burning of the rainforest was at normal levels.
More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-fires-bolsonaro-macron-brigitte-renzo-gracie-brazil-ambassador-a9088356.html
Statesman Gracie behind Bolsonaro.
JI7
(89,172 posts)sandensea
(21,526 posts)Plus, he knows he'll be met with large protests - as both he and Bolsonazi have become quite unpopular in Brazil.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)Not a whole lot of diplomacy happening there.
trusty elf
(7,347 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)He does provide entertainment strangling people in the ring but that qualifies you to be a tourism ambassador?
I do understand thugs, I live in Trump dominated America.
raccoon
(31,088 posts)What a creep.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)and he's intimidated by her on some levels
dalton99a
(81,062 posts)The MMA veteran was arrested a week ago at 1 OAK club in New York and charged for gang assault after sending a nightclub doorman to the hospital. During an interview to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour on Tuesday, Gracie told his side of the story.