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Domestic Abuse, Shown Blow by Blow, Shocks Brazil
In a still from video captured by security cameras last month, and first broadcast Sunday on the television program Fantástico, Luís Felipe Manvailer can be seen assaulting his wife, Tatiane Spitzner.
By Shasta Darlington
Aug. 7, 2018
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The scenes, captured by security cameras, are gruesome: A man pummels and kicks his wife in the garage of their building. She tries to flee, but he forces her into the elevator. They go up to their fifth-floor apartment.
Less than 20 minutes later, he takes the elevator back down — to fetch her bloody, lifeless body, which had plummeted to the sidewalk below.
The footage from the night of July 22, first broadcast Sunday on the popular television program Fantástico, has been playing repeatedly on national television. The graphic, blow-by-blow view into what domestic violence really looks like is challenging the widespread notion that you shouldn’t “stick a spoon” in marital disputes.
Portions of the video posted by a local newspaper show the woman repeatedly try to get away.
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/americas/domestic-abuse-shown-blow-by-blow-shocks-brazil.html
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WITW STAFF 08.08.18
TATIANE SPITZNER. (TWITTER)
Horrific security camera footage showing a man beating his wife just moments before her death has sparked calls for a change in how Brazil handles domestic abuse after the video was aired on Brazilian television. The footage shows Luís Felipe Manvailer committing a brutal assault on his wife of five years, Tatiane Spitzner. The disturbing footage has been making the rounds on national television in Brazil and on social media ever since the popular TV show Fantástico first broadcast it on Sunday. In the video, Manvailer can be seen brutally punching and kicking his wife in the garage of their building. After she tries, unsuccessfully, to run away from him, he forces her into the elevator up to their fifth-floor apartment.
Less than 20 minutes later, Spitzner fell to her death, her body landing on the sidewalk outside the apartment building, an occurrence that was also caught by a security camera. The video also captures Manvailer returning to the elevator — and trying to remove the blood smeared across its walls — as he goes to recover Spitzner’s body.
Manvailer is being investigated for murder — an accusation he has denied, claiming that his wife threw herself to her death from the apartment’s balcony. According to reports, during the 15 minutes that the couple spent in the apartment leading up to Spitzner’s death, neighbors could hear her screaming in pain and desperately crying out for help.
In wake of the airing of the security footage of Manvailer’s attack on Spitzner, Brazilians flocked to social media to demand a cultural shift in how the country reacts to domestic violence by using the hashtag #metaAcolher — “stick a spoon in,” a reference to a popular Brazilian idiom: “When it’s a fight between husband and wife, don’t stick a spoon in.” In Brazil, a recent survey showed that more than a third of women in the country have been the victims of some form of violence and half of those women responded that the violence they were subjected to was perpetrated by a male partner or an ex.
More:
https://womenintheworld.com/2018/08/08/disturbing-video-of-husband-savagely-beating-his-wife-prompts-nationwide-outrage-in-brazil/
