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A TV reporter was mugged on camera moments before her live broadcast(Image: claranery\/X)<\/p>\nIn a shocking incident, a television reporter was mugged moments before she went live \u2014 watch the footage here as the entire terrifying ordeal is caught on camera<\/p>\n
19:22, 30 Jul 2025Updated 20:06, 30 Jul 2025<\/p>\n
A TV reporter was mugged on camera moments before her live broadcast(Image: claranery\/X)<\/p>\n
Clara Nery, a Brazilian journalist, recently suffered a shock incident<\/a> while gearing up to report live on camera.<\/p>\n A TV correspondent for the Band network, Clara was mugged<\/a> on a sidewalk in Botafogo, a southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, moments before going live for the Bora Brasil morning program on Monday, July 28.<\/p>\n In the bizarre clip, Clara can be seen typing intently on her phone in the run up to the live broadcast, as a man on a motorbike appears in the background and slowly closes in on the reporter. While driving past Clara, the assailant can be seen reaching out and swiping the journalist\u2019s phone from her hand. It comes after a warning to Brit tourists planning all-inclusive holidays to Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n The clip shows Clara screaming out in shock and letting out a swear word before lunging after her phone and disappearing from the camera\u2019s view.<\/p>\n Clara later confirmed the mugger was unable to steal and make off with her device as she had a firm grip on it. She said: \u201cI had my back turned when this man rode by on a motorcycle on the sidewalk and tried to take my phone. In the video, you can see the moment he puts his hand on my phone and takes it from me.<\/p>\n \u201cLuckily, and despite his lack of skill, I managed to retrieve the phone. But we already have the security camera footage, the camera that managed to focus on his face.\u201d<\/p>\n Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n The scene of the attempted mugging was attended to by a Rio de Janeiro Military Police unit, which searched the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhood; however, they were unable to locate the suspect, as per MailOnline <\/a>. However, after a subsequent review of the CCTV surveillance cameras, authorities were successfully able to obtain a clear shot of the suspect.<\/p>\n In a translated post on social media, Clara wrote: \u201cA scare of those to go live, but the important thing is that everything turned out fine! Thank you for the messages and support from colleagues from the Military police and Civil police. Shall we share his face that he wants to be known?\u201d<\/p>\n Transcribed by a Mirror<\/a> reporter, Clara can be heard saying in her Instagram<\/a> video: \u201cHi everyone, I\u2019m coming on now a bit more calmly just to say that everything is fine. A lot of people have been asking, sending me messages, wondering if I got hurt or if my phone was broken. I wasn\u2019t hurt, and my phone was recovered completely intact \u2014 it didn\u2019t break when it hit the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite the scare, fortunately everything was recorded, as there were security cameras around. I was with my colleague, cinematographer Leonardo Teixeira, so we also have his camera footage, because we were about to go live, which made the scare even greater. But all those images are already with the Military Police and the Civil Police.<\/p>\n \u201cI also want to personally thank Lieutenant J. Gon\u00e7alves from the Botafogo Battalion, and Police Chief Dr. Alan Duarte from the Botafogo Police Department. They gave me a lot of support, and I really trust their work. I\u2019m sure that soon he will be identified and arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n Clara continues: \u201cNow it remains to be seen whether, once arrested, he will actually stay in custody. Because we see so many cases like this, or even much worse, where the criminals are armed, the victims are threatened, and then the offenders end up being released shortly after \u2014 sometimes just a few days later, or even during the custody hearing. But what matters today is that everything is okay.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are alarming numbers, and this isn\u2019t an isolated incident. In fact, we\u2019re going to bring a full report on this in today\u2019s edition of Jornal da Band. And since so many things are going viral online and on social media, I\u2019ll also leave his photo here to see if it spreads and helps find him.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rio de Janeiro Public Security Institute reports a 27% rise in cell phone thefts in June compared to the same period in 2024. In total, over 2,300 mobile devices were stolen last month, up from 1,808 in June of the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a shocking incident, a television reporter was mugged moments before she went live \u2014 watch the footage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2106,18599,27977,188,378,112189,12,2322,638,416,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-304940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-cctv","10":"tag-cctv-footage","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-in-the-news","13":"tag-military-police","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-surveillance","16":"tag-umm-what","17":"tag-viral","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944358803424111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Brazilian](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_image-89896jpeg.jpg\")
Brazilian journalist Clara Nery was mugged on camera(Image: claranery\/X)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-144539.jpg\")
The attempted mugging was caught on camera(Image: claranery\/X)<\/p>\n