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“This is an attack on democracy”: Julio César Rodríguez on controversial arrest of cameraman
“This is an attack on democracy”: Julio César Rodríguez on controversial arrest of cameraman
Álex Cuadra, a cameraman for CNN Chile / Chilevisión, was detained this Monday amid a protest led by the Coordinating Assembly of Secondary Students (ACES) outside the Ministry of Education.
In With you in the morning The incident was addressed and they criticized the actions of the Carabineros, stating that the reason for his arrest was not understood and that Cuadra was only doing his job, which was to record the events that occurred in the place.
Marinela estrada, a journalist who was with the cameraman dispatching for CNN Chile, said that his partner had his camera, credential and everything he needed to identify himself as a press professional, adding that he was not obstructing any Carabineros process.
The journalist affirmed that the process was “all very violent” and that the police threw him to the ground, then took him and put him in the car. In addition, Estrada pointed out that she was also injured. “I was checking my legs and I have some rasmillones,” he said.
“Here the right to inform is violated, which is the most serious thing”Marianela pointed out. In this sense, he affirmed that when the arrests of students that Cuadra was recording at the time of his arrest were being carried out, they tried to “cover” the image of the professional.
Julio Cesar Rodriguez, host of the space, affirmed that the situation “was very strange” and that “Carabineros should be trained” to face this type of protests, indicating that this demonstration was smaller compared to others that have been registered in recent months.
While, Monserrat Alvarez, described the actions of the police officers as “Unusual”, “absurd” and “questionable”, while describing a video where the exact moment is seen in which the police take the cameraman.
“Carabineros will have to give explanations (…) If the Carabineros behavior is like this with the press, we are in a… This undermines the democracy of the countries, because here no one was attacking the Carabineros, no one was preventing the actions of the officials . There we can see how they will look for him and take him on his back in detention “Rodríguez said.
WarnerMedia Statement
Through a statement, the WarnerMedia company delivered a statement on behalf of the Chilevisión News Center and CNN Chile, in which “they repudiate and regret the arrest of a member of our team, the cameraman Álex Cuadra Toledo, in the fulfillment of their functions.
WarnerMedia notes that with this action, “Carabineros personnel have unjustifiably obstructed the exercise of freedom of information, forcibly preventing the work of a press professional assigned to cover relevant events for our news services both in Chilevisión and CNN Chile.
“The unjustified detention of Mr. Cuadra, from all the records available so far, represents humiliating treatment against a prominent professional, who was not only stripped of his camera in the midst of information work, but was also reduced by force and handcuffed inside a police vehicle “they added.
In this sense, they indicated that the procedure on the part of a state institution “violates both the basic guarantees that must exist for press professionals and the right of public opinion to be informed in a truthful and timely manner.”
Carabineros version
In With you in the morning It was first revealed that the Carabineros initiated an “internal investigation to determine the responsibilities of the personnel for the arrest of the cameraman.”
Later – after it was learned that Álex Cuadra was released, as a warning and waiting to be summoned by the North Central Prosecutor’s Office to give a statement – the institution delivered a more extensive version of what happened.
As detailed to Radio Bío Bío, Lieutenant Colonel Hector Canales, commissioner of the Third Police Station of Santiago, assured that the reason for the arrest of the cameraman was to oppose the actions of the Carabineros.
“People must understand that, for the safety of all actors, a prudent distance must be kept in the middle of a police procedure”he commented, according to BioBioChile.
Finally, Canales acknowledged that “It is evident that the cameraman was fulfilling a function of informing”, for which he promised that the actions of the officials will be reviewed. Of course, he also asked professionals to respect the space. “We all want to do our job and to do it well we must be coordinated”, he concluded.
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