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Podemos has decided to intensify its offensive against the critical press and has launched a smear campaign based on false or misrepresented information and insults against a dozen prominent professionals from different written, radio and audiovisual media.
The common denominator of all of them is that at some point they have reported or expressed their opinion against the positions of the party led by Pablo Iglesias.
The formation has deployed an attack strategy on three levels, media, judicial and political, with the aim of intimidating a large black list of journalists and silencing any critical voice against the
purple
formation
.
In the first of the shots, the offensive gravitates around a web created
ad hoc
by the party under the name of
The Last Hour
.
This page, whose creation was sponsored last spring by Iglesias himself, is directed by Dina Bousselham, former personal assistant to the party leader in the
European Parliament
, former prominent member of the formation and main protagonist of one of the pieces of the
case Villarejo
.
Against her and Iglesias, Judge
Manuel García Castellón
raised a reasoned statement before the Supreme Court for various crimes.
He accuses them of having simulated the theft of Dina's phone by the "sewers of the State" in collaboration with a group of journalists to obtain an electoral result in the 2019 elections. The magistrate must continue investigating this matter after ordering the High Court to exhaust the investigations by taking a statement from Dina herself.
Captures of 'The Last Hour' with attacks on some of the journalists that Podemos has pointed out through this fake news page.
Iglesias said when promoting the web that "it is essential that there are media like this, that they tell what others do not dare to tell and that they do not depend on the advertising of banks and companies, but only on their partners, because we and we we know well that whoever pays rules ».
The birth of this website, for which Iglesias openly asked for money from those registered in Podemos, provoked an immediate reaction from former party leaders, such as Ramón Espinar, who warned of what was to come: «Using intoxication websites from parties in the Government is not only an aberrant practice on the right.
The (constitutional) role of the media is much more serious than that.
What a shame it is all.
Dina, for her part, revealed her declaration of intent and said that they were preparing to "look at the media sewer from you to you."
Other leaders such as the spokesperson for the training in Congress, Pablo Echenique, also warned that the new "medium" was going to be "feared by the gangsters of the sewers and their
fake
media arms
."
The party wasted no time in materializing its threats.
Under the name of "communication media,"
La Ultima Hora
began to publish false news against journalists whom it blames, as Minister Irene Montero said this week, of "spreading hoaxes and false news, trying to attack Pablo Iglesias and other political leaders. with the intention of subverting democracy.
His main targets were journalists who reported on his scandals.
And against them they pour the most serious accusations.
The list of objectives continues to grow: Urreiztieta, Griso, Olmo, Vallés, Inda ...
The chosen formula is always the same.
Texts that are not accompanied by the signature of any journalist and that are not accompanied by the minimum required journalistic diligence.
None of the publications previously collected the version of those affected.
As an example, one of his first reports was directed against the deputy editor of this newspaper,
Esteban Urreiztieta
, the author of numerous reports on the Podemos accounts and the revelations that dismantled the
Dina case
.
The website published that he had been charged with trying to harm Podemos with false information.
That summons never existed.
Iglesias had expressly requested his summons as investigated before the judge along with two other journalists, arguing that he had published information on the so-called
Pisa Report
prepared by the Police on Iglesias.
In the opinion of the Podemos leader, he was part of a conspiracy to try to prevent him from coming to power.
Iglesias based his request on a news item that appeared on March 14, 2016 in this newspaper that echoed that report.
However, that information was not prepared by Urreiztieta nor could it have been, because at that time he was working in another medium, specifically in
El Español
.
In addition, neither the journalist nor this outlet have ever published any information with material from the phone of his former adviser, despite what has been repeatedly sustained by Iglesias.
The judge ruled out the informant's summons, underlining "the false nature" of Iglesias' arguments.
The attacks against journalists through this website have been accompanied by a public statement by Iglesias himself, who used the press conference after the
Council of Ministers
in
La Moncloa
last July to point out certain professionals.
Irene Montero has replicated the same strategy in her speeches.
The vice president put on the table the name of the
Antena 3
presenter
Vicente Vallés
, whom he publicly called "cloaquín" under the argument that "we are all subjected to criticism and insult."
A Vallés, whom Podemos has made one of its main targets to beat, Dina's website accuses him of "lying live", "manipulating" or "hiding less and less his anger" against training, and qualifies it as "Hero of the extreme right."
Despite the repeated accusations by Podemos against the media that they have published false information, no court has agreed with them so far.
In the case of
EL MUNDO
, they have never called for any rectification through the courts.
Podemos has also identified among its main enemies the director of
Okdiario
,
Eduardo Inda
, a medium that has published numerous exclusives about Podemos and that uncovered, for example, the purchase of the
Galapagar
house
by Iglesias and Montero.
However, the offensive has been extended to other journalism professionals and the virulence of the attacks always follows the publication of certain information that affects the party.
Thus, Podemos has targeted
El Confidencial
and especially its Head of Investigation,
José María Olmo
, author of numerous reports on the ongoing judicial process regarding the alleged irregular financing of Podemos.
Also his are others on the internal chats of the party's legal team, in which the lawyers of the formation recounted their meetings with the prosecutors in the
Villarejo case
and revealed that they had a joint strategy to try to attack certain journalists and media.
Attacks always occur after negative news from Podemos is published
In fact, these messages revealed the intention of Podemos to provoke an entry and registration by the
Public Prosecutor's Office
in
Okdiario
,
flatly
rejected by the judge, to try to find out the source that provided them with the famous messages from Iglesias in which he assured that He would "whip" the television presenter
Mariló Montero
.
The chats revealed by
El Confidencial
also documented the continuous leakage of secret information to the lawyers of the
purple
formation
or the alleged intimate relationship between one of the prosecutors and the party's lawyer, an end that has been denied by the representative of
the Public Ministry
, who was separated of the cause.
In the so-called
media sewer,
the Podemos website also includes television stars such as the director of
La Sexta
,
Antonio García Ferreras
, with whom he resorts directly to the insult and does not hesitate to qualify as a "tyrant" or "captain of the yellow press", and whom they intend to enshrine in the criminal network of Commissioner Villarejo under the sole argument that he met with him.
He has also included the director of
El Target
de La Sexta,
Ana Pastor
, among the targets of his attacks.
More recently, they have taken it against the director of
La Razón
,
Francisco Marhuenda
, whom they have tried to defame for his work as a university professor using anonymous testimonies and launching accusations without proof.
They have also set their target on the deputy director of this newspaper
Joaquín Manso
and the journalist from
Cadena Ser
Ana Terradillos
.
Susanna Griso
and
Ana Rosa Quintana are
also placed on their black list
, assuring that their programs are "at the service of the sewer commissioner 's media strategy."
The ammunition against both are reports from the Internal Affairs of the Police that have been rejected by the judge and the Provincial Court of Madrid.
The radio is not exempt from the Podemos attacks either.
The last hour has attacked the collaborator of
Onda Cero Chapu Apaolaza
, whom he accuses of "whitewashing the Crown scandals," or against
Carlos Herrera
, who he says "encourages protests against the vice president's house."
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