After the incident, Isa Balado questioned the attacker on the street in Madrid Photo: Reproduction / Social networks
A man who groped the buttocks of a television reporter live in Spain this Tuesday (12) was arrested shortly after the crime, the police reported.
The arrest came shortly after the controversy surrounding the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president’s nonconsensual kiss on a player.
“Arrested for sexually assaulting a reporter while appearing live on television,” Spanish National Police reported on the social network X (formerly Twitter), along with a video of the arrest.
Since a recent reform of the Spanish Penal Code, any sexual abuse can be considered sexual assault, a crime that includes all types of sexual violence.
The events occurred this Tuesday when the reporter Isa Balado was commenting on some arrests in Madrid and a young man came up to her from behind and groped her buttocks, according to images from the program “En boca de todos” on the Cuatro television channel.
The young man stands next to her, disturbing her, and a show host asks the reporter incredulously, “Did he just touch your butt?”
“Yes,” she replies before walking towards the young man, “as much as you want to ask us which channel we are from, do you really have to touch my ass?” The young man denies this, but before he leaves , he strokes the journalist’s hair.
“In a society that we want to make better, this cannot happen and this feeling of impunity cannot exist. This is a lack of respect and I hope that the full force of the law falls on him,” said the show’s host, Diego Losada, according to the Cuatro website.
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Acting Equality Minister Irene Montero wrote in X: “Nonconsensual touching is sexual violence and we say it has achieved impunity.”
This episode comes shortly after the resignation of the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, for kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the mouth shortly after Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup in Australia.
The kiss, which the player said was nonconsensual, sparked national and international furor that led to the resignation of Rubiales, who also faces a judge on Friday about the episode.
(AFP)
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