Journalist Raissa Robles files complaints vs. Gadon over viral video

Investigative journalist Raissa Robles has filed complaints against senatorial candidate Larry Gadon over a viral video in which he hurled profanities against her.

In a Facebook post, Robles said she filed the complaints last Friday.

“My belated ‘Christmas gift’ to him,” she said.

“The lawsuits are not just for me but for all women who want to engage in political discourse on the Internet but are instead subjected to vile, online sexual abuse,” she added.

In the video that went viral in December 2021, a furious Gadon is seen hurling profanities at Robles after she called presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. a tax evader.

Robres’ lawyer, Atty. Sandra Olaso-Coronel, said contents of two videos will be the basis for complaint.

“The first is a viral video of him commenting, well making misogynistic remarks against Raissa and that is a basis for the Safe Spaces Act,” Coronel told ANC.

“And then the subsequent interview wherein he apologized but actually did not apologize to Raissa and instead accused her of being a purveyor of fake news, that is the subject of our cyber libel and our libel complaint,” she added.

Robles said Gadon’s remarks were “too much.”

“I’ve said I would sue him and so I have. And everything is there in the document my lawyer and I filed,” she said.

“You know the country just held the Bar exam, and it’s sickening to imagine Gadon as an example of what a lawyer is to those who took the exam. He is a terrible example, a terrible human being,” she added.

Gadon was suspended by the Supreme Court for using "arrogant, malicious, and insulting" language against a fellow lawyer and his client in 2009.

GMA News Online has reached out to Gadon for comment but has yet to receive a reply as of posting time.  —KBK, GMA News