The Almada Court sentenced Portuguese Adélia Ramos to eight months in suspended prison, and to pay compensation of 16 thousand euros for racist insults against the children of Brazilian actors Giovanna Ewbank and Bruno Gagliasso.
The racist insults were made in 2022, in a Costa da Caparica restaurantin Almada, when Adélia Ramos called the minor children of Giovanna Ewbank and Bruno Gagliasso “filthy black people”.
The children who were adopted by the couple were seven and nine years old at the time. Currently, at 11 and 10 years old, the two minors were traumatized with the incident and, according to the parents.
Now, the Almada Court has sentenced Adélia Ramos to eight months in prison for aggravated injuries. The sentence is suspended for four years.
This Portuguese woman still has to pay compensation of 14 thousand euros to offended children and 2,500 euros to SOS Racismo.
“Get out of here, you filthy black people”, “Portugal is not the place for you” and “Go back to Africa and Brazil” were some of the insults he uttered.
In court, claimed she was drunkbut this was not a mitigating factor. It was still sentenced to compulsory hospitalization to undergo medical treatment for alcoholism.
“I hope you realize that these situations are not acceptable and that the expressions are remarkable” for those who hear them, the judge highlighted in the sentence, as cited in .
The plaintiffs’ legal team emphasizes to this newspaper that “the sentence is satisfactory” and that “the court considered the facts proven, as well as the seriousness of the offenses and the racist content and motivation, also highlighting the need to affirm the values of combating racial discrimination and also protecting children”.
The case had repercussions in Brazil, where even the President insulted him.