Journalists will initiate judicial action for the violent acts to which they are subjected by masista groups; they have identified five assailants

The representatives of the Association of Journalists of Santa Cruz and the Trade Union Federation of the Press expressed their discomfort and rejected the actions of the groups mobilized by the MAS and the Police, before the representatives of the Interinstitutional Census Committee, where they requested that they address the issue in the council this Sunday, since at least 19 journalists have been attacked during the days of the strike, mainly in the coverage of the mobilizations carried out by the masistas.

But they also announced that Judicial actions will be initiated against the aggressors of the journalists so that those who attempted against the lives of the press workers are found, causing fractures, lynching attempts, damage to their work equipment, among others.

The president of the Association of Journalists of Santa Cruz, Roberto Méndez, indicated that on Saturday they will present the legal action against those responsible for the attacks on the teams of journalistsso that both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police identify them.

“vWe are going to identify those responsible and the instigators, and we are going to initiate legal action tomorrow,” said Méndez, who explained that evidence has been collected showing those responsible for the events.

In addition, that through the photographs and recordings made by journalists and the population itself, at least five people have been identifiedwho will also be charged for the violent attacks they committed against journalists and cameramen.

They called on the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office to carry out an investigation on this issue, to whom they will provide evidence to capture those responsible.

For his part, the executive of the Trade Union Federation of the Press, Milton Montero, pointed out that there are 19 fellow journalists who were attacked brutally in the coverage, mainly in the demonstrations carried out by groups related to the government party.

“We have colleagues with broken noses, with broken fingers, colleagues who suffered blows to the head and who were brutally assaulted. The feeling of fellow journalists is one of anger and annoyance and we denounce that the MAS does not want the press,” Montero said.

He stressed that the union is being beaten daily and the uncertainty of complying with the information to show the truth, leads them to not know if they will return home alive.

“ThatWe will condemn this type of criminal aggression that we are suffering from the Police and the shock groups of the movement for socialism, Today at least five journalists have been attacked, and a total of 19 are affected,” said Montero.

They emphasized that they will not neglect the investigations into the Las Londras case, place where several journalists were kidnapped and tortured by interculturalists who subjugated lands.

This day alone, five journalists were attacked by groups that cheered “we want to work”, They marched from the Urban Park towards the Chiriguano monument, violence broke out and they attacked the press teams. The first incident began just when the sectors were concentrated and in a live dispatch carried out by the journalist Silvia Gómez from the Unitel network, she was rebuked by the people who asked her to leave the place.

between screams, pushes and threats, they labeled her a “sold press” restricting her work, and in the midst of this event, the journalist from EL DEBER, Guider Arancibia, was also intimidated, and was asked to leave the concentration point.

However, some time later, during the march in the area of ​​La Ramada, when the violence broke out in the place, the journalist Yerko Guevara was attacked by those mobilized by the MASThey rebuked him and knocked him to the ground, where he was protected by a woman who acted as a listener so that he would not be hit while other journalists tried to keep the aggressors away.

In the midst of this conflictCadena A’s cameraman, Grover Tuero, also suffered damage to his equipment, since the violent ones asked him not to record the aggression and they still destroyed his camera.

The Police were present when they attacked the journalists, but the violence did not stop in the place and the same press workers demanded that the troops stop the attacks. Even, for the second ring, a journalist from Bolivia TV, Paola Moreno, was also attacked by the same sectors related to the MAS.

In the midst of the clashes that led the Police to use tear gas, A team of journalists from Bolivisión who were seeking to leave the conflict zone inside their vehicle, suffered an attack with a chain, breaking the windshield of the vehicle.

These are events that occurred only this Friday, but other attacks were previously reported, one that occurred in La Guardia, where a journalist ended up with fractures and blows to the head when he was attacked by a mob related to the government party that they were facing preventing the population from lifting the fence that they installed in that municipality.

Another case occurred during the first days of the indefinite strike, where a Gigavisión press team He was a victim in the southern part of the city, the cameraman suffered a broken nose and the journalist had her cell phone broken, and part of her work equipment was also stolen.