Spanish National Police have arrested a man in Madrid for “sexual assault” against a reporter while the victim was taking part in a television broadcast. This was reported by the police’s social media channels.
The television station “Cuatro”, for which the attacked journalist works, reconstructed the dynamics of the incident and showed various images of the incident. The reporter, whose name is Isa Balado, followed a case of theft live in a shop in the Lavapiés district of Madrid on behalf of the program “En boca de todos”. At that moment, according to the television images, the person who was later arrested approached her from behind, touched her butt and asked her: “What channel are you on?”
Faced with this situation, the host of the Nacho Abad program cut off the connection while Cuatro managers called the police. As later images from the station itself show, the man accused of the attack remained nearby in the minutes that followed. “He continues to disrupt everyone in front of him,” Balado said in a subsequent link.
“What used to be ‘normal’ is no longer so. #Enough is our country’s call to guarantee the right to sexual freedom of all women,” commented Equal Opportunities Minister Irene Montero on the episode “Stop Impunity.”
Messages of solidarity for Balado were also received on social media from several professional colleagues.
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