The broadcast of the Spanish channel was interrupted by the RT program with Puigdemon

In an interview, Puigdemon, among other things, stated that the Catalan problem has no other solution than recognition of independence.

“At the moment, all the facts over the past 40 years indicate that there is no such decision, because for all 40 years this has not been a movement for independence, and such a decision failed. All facts point to this, ”he said.

According to El Comercio, a source close to RTVE explained the broadcast failure as a “hacker hack." It is noted that the RT signal was transmitted on the air "+24" throughout the evening.

“Hackers broke into the Spanish channel“ +24 ”and hacked ours instead of their ether. We just had an interview with Puigdemon, the main independence of Catalonia. Our broadcast was broadcast all evening. We do not know who did this. Honest pioneer. But beautiful, why, ”commented RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan in her Telegram channel.

In January 2017, the US government broadcast channel C-SPAN was interrupted by RT. The RT program interrupted Congressman Maxine Waters ’speech, which had previously protested Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, citing“ Russian interference. ” The broadcast lasted about ten minutes.

C-SPAN said the incident was caused by routing problems. At the same time, some media and social network users expressed confidence that the "Russian hackers" were to blame.

“I'm starting to believe that Russian hackers have cracked the heads of the entire American mainstream. C-SPAN itself has already stated that the failure in broadcasting is their internal mistake, and the mainstream continues to hysteria that we hacked them. Our editorial office has ended popcorn to watch this, ”Simonyan commented on the accusations.