• Gabriel Rufián.Datata a campaign against a journalist from EL MUNDO for a report on the prisoners of the 'procés'

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has demanded this Tuesday, October 8, the cessation of attacks on journalists in Catalonia and has asked politicians and media for responsibility to reduce tension, after compiling half a hundred attacks on freedom of information in two years.

According to the organization, the "hardness" of the images of harassment and aggression suffered last week by Telecinco journalist Laila Jiménez , by independent protesters commemorating October 1, has caused "commotion inside and outside Spain, because it confirms that Catalonia has become a dangerous terrain for reporters who report at street level about the conflict. "

"We are deeply dismayed and worried about the images that come to us periodically from Catalonia , since we confirm that the intensity of the attacks on the press is increasing," said the head of the European Union and RSF spokesman Pauline Adès-Mevel .

In this sense, Adès-Mevel has warned that, "of the choreographed slogans and the increments", it has already passed "to insults, harassment and harassment and, finally, to physical aggression . " "It is a pattern that always repeats itself in the spirals of hate for the journalist," said Pauline Adès-Mevel.

Given this situation, the international organization has compiled the attacks on informants that have occurred in Catalonia during the last two years and figure in the middle of the number of violations of freedom of the press recorded since the months of September and October 2017, until today.

As RSF has denounced, " killing the messenger has become the main means of escape from the anger of protesters and journalists who report at street level are exposed, in each direct, to physical and psychological risks incompatible with the freedom of report".

For his part, the president of RSF Spain, Alfonso Armada, has emphasized that "the climate of tension" experienced by radio and television reporters in Catalonia is "unbearable . " "The extreme polarization that affects politics has moved to the media and the media, to civil society," he emphasized.

Therefore, he has urged politicians and the media to "act responsibly" and reduce the tension, "to the extent that corresponds to them." "The impending judgment of the 'procés' trial will result in new mobilizations and journalists cannot pay the duck with more violence. We are reaching absolutely intolerable levels of aggressiveness and insecurity, " said Alfonso Armada.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • media
  • Journalism
  • Catalonia

Media: journalist Pepe Oneto dies at 77

Politics Gabriel Rufián unleashes a campaign against an EL MUNDO journalist for a report on the prisoners of 'procés'

CourtsJunts per Catalunya hired a company linked to the '3% case' in its last election campaign