Friday, March 29

The Police denounces a Valencian public television journalist who was covering an eviction for disobedience

The National Police has denounced the Valencian public television journalist À Punt Pilar de la Fuente for disobedience while reporting live on an eviction in the Orriols neighborhood (València).

As reported from public televisionthe agents have identified her along with a journalist from the newspaper Levante, Gonzalo Sánchez, when they asked to cross the street to check what was happening at the door of the house that was going to be evicted.

According to À Punt Notícies, the report also accuses the reporter of “crossing the security zone established” by the agents to carry out the eviction and “provoking the crowd.”

The police accuses the editor of disturbing public order and not wanting to present an identity document, which they claim was requested on three occasions, although on the fourth she identified herself.

De la Fuente argues that she did not have her DNI with her and that, instead, she has shown them a card from the Unió de Periodistes and the one that identified her as a Valencian public radio and television worker.

From À Punt they have condemned the complaint against a journalist who “tried to exercise her profession”. The Valencian public broadcaster “has defended the free exercise of journalism and both the right to inform and to receive information, which citizens have, two of the fundamental rights included in the Spanish Constitution.

“Doing your job as a journalist cannot cost a complaint. All the support for our colleague Pilar, denounced in the exercise of her profession ”, Raquel Ejerique, director of News of the Valencian public entity, wrote on Twitter.

The spokeswoman for Unides Podem in the Corts Valencianes, Pilar Lima, has condemned the events through social networks: “It is inadmissible that the right to information and the free exercise of journalism be limited in this way.”

Lima has shown “all its support” to the journalist who was denounced and to À Punt Notícies: “We demand that the situation be resolved, all of this was happening at the same time that there was an eviction.”





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