in dialogue with The Observer, He said that it was a “moment of impotence” and “anger” and that he should not have acted the way he did.
Papasso was sentenced to seven months probation for the crime of “especially aggravated assault” after spitting on a municipal official while demonstrating against the appearance of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Montevideo City Hall.
In addition, he will have to do community work five hours a week for four months and will have to receive outpatient psychiatric care.
“I felt overloaded, very nervous, did you see when you feel that everyone is attacking you? It was a moment of anger, which I totally condemn, but I felt the anger,” she said, and said that she felt sorry for having acted in that way.
“I am sorry for having reacted like this, over time, I am a young person, and I am going to begin to understand them and treat them differently. I am not going to respond with more violence. I am capable of being part of a government, or of the Legislative Palace, and you can’t react that way. In the future, if I’m going to be a candidate or something, I can’t have this kind of reaction. Every day you learn something and I’m learning,” he said.
She said that she was always impulsive, since she was a girl, and that it is a must in which she intends to work.
“They wanted to get me out of there anyway,” he said, referring to the fact that they were already taking his car away when the worst had not yet happened. He also expressed that he does not know how the situation would have ended, since prior to that the atmosphere was tense and violent, and that he received insults due to his sexuality.
Regarding the moments that she was detained, she said that they were among the “worst” of her life. “I was handcuffed, my arms are black, they were taking me from one place to another in the patrol car, I was handcuffed in the emergency room because I felt bad in the patrol car. In the section and in the prosecutor’s office I practically did not eat, the second one too, I ate very little on Friday. The food was not as pleasant as I am used to eating. Hot water and tap. The bathrooms were a hole in the floor. Rats passed by me. I couldn’t sleep, I was there all those hours without being able to sleep. The only thing I could do was demonstrate, shout for them to get me out of there, and to send me to Hispaniola. I got into the emergency room and told him that I had to do this, I asked him please to leave me a night there,” he described.
