Joachim chicken alvarez was conducting a live broadcast from the Barwa Village area, in Qatar, for us in the morning (El Trece, Monday to Friday at 9:30) when a man got out of a truck, asked for his press card, covered the camera and prevented him from continuing on his cell phone.
“Urgent: El Pollo Álvarez censored in the middle of live coverage in Qatar”reported in the profile of Chirping of the aforementioned program together with a video with exclusive images of that particular moment.
“Unusual what happened recently. We’re in the van. We had to leave. We don’t quite know who did it because two other people arrived later and it’s scary because of what it hears and sees“, were the first words of the presenter.
“The first thing I thought was ‘they’re going to put me in jail’ And one important thing is that we have absolutely all the permits and one person has given us the okay to enter the houses and the supermarket,” explained El Pollo.
According to the driver, the ladybug who scolded him told him “in a very good way” that he could not record there because it was “a private place”.
“I wanted to explain to them that we were showing something nice, but they told us we had to go and too At one point they wanted to take away our equipment”added chicken.
“This is a very serious episode of censorship and it must be said. They covered our camera, they grabbed you, they didn’t let us record, they took us out of the place in a bad way and they didn’t identify themselves.” Nicholas Magaldiwho replaces Álvarez for his trip to the World Cup.
The story, as surprising as it was reprehensible, ended with the intervention of William Nicholasthe Argentine ambassador in Qatar, announcing in front of El Trece cameras that they will take action on the matter.
“Surprised why It is the first incident with Argentine journalists… If absolutely everything was in order, you certainly have it there should not be any problem. For this reason, we are trying to communicate with (El Pollo) to find out in detail what happened,” Nicolás began.
“Honestly, that’s it. I want to let the foam down on this and think about the Argentina national team who plays on Saturday because yes, it was a very embarrassing momentwe have everything in order, this is real and they also just came in a very bad way to ask us for accreditation and in this case they left but that’s it,” said El Pollo.
Immediately afterwards, faced with a question from Magaldi, Álvarez asked for a minute, exclaimed “I’ve got it”, and abruptly ended the cell phone. “They’re asking us to leave. Nico, the truth is we’re going to cut it because the truth is dangerous”said the TV host.
“We can’t work. We’ve been there for a week and suddenly today in two places this happens to us. What can we do?” asked the interim driver of us in the morning to the Argentine ambassador.
“It seems absurd to me what is happening and it shouldn’t happen again. What we will do of course is contact the authorities to file a complaint about the case,” said the Argentine diplomat in Qatar.
Source: Clarin
