Brazilian Press Pay Tribute to Fallen Colleague

SHOTLIST RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 11 FEB, 2014 (SOURCE: AFPTV) - Eron Morales with placard saying "in mourning for Santiago" - VAR Protesters with placard reading "against the criminalisation of social movements" - VAR protester - Police near central train station - VAR protest - Police marching - VAR helmets, cameras near blood-stain where Santiago Ilidio Andrade fell during a protest against bus fare hikes - VAR journalists holding hands - VAR protest SOUNDBITE 1 - Eron Morales de Melo, (man) Protester (Portuguese, 15 secs) "Santiago's death was a stupid one. It was a death provoked by irresponsible people who joined the protest and it is a death that sullies the image of the protests." SOUNDBITE 2 - Eron Morales de Melo, (man) Protester (Portuguese, 30 secs) "The problem is that the police are badly-prepared to deal with protests. They are trained to stop protests and unfortunately when the police are badly prepared and you have bad people joining the protest, the police can't contain them. It ends up with them attacking everyone, they provoke violence against the protest and it ends up like a war." SOUNDBITE 3 - Tiago Ramos, (man) Photographer (Portuguese, 20 secs): "The least we could do was to come here to the very place he was hit and pay hommage. By putting our cases on the ground we are protesting against violence against the press and professionals. Against violence and against the origin of violence." /// ------------------------------ AFP TEXT Journalist hurt in Brazil protest brain dead: official / Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - 11 February 2014 A Brazilian journalist injured while reporting on violent clashes with protesters was declared brain dead on Monday, as yet another demonstration paralyzed downtown Rio just four months ahead of the World Cup. Television news cameraman Santiago Ilidio Andrade, 49, was left in a coma after being struck on the head by a flare during protests against bus fare increases last Thursday. Rio de Janeiro's public health office said Monday that neurosurgeons at Souza Aguiar municipal hospital had declared the married father-of-one brain dead. "My husband is gone. They have destroyed a solid family," Andrade's heartbroken wife told the Globo television channel in an interview. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said she was "outraged and saddened" at news of Andrade's death. "It is unacceptable that democratic protests are taken over by those who have no respect for human lives," Rousseff said on...