Asomedios and Flip reject attacks against journalistic team during traffic accident coverage

Last Thursday, it was recorded that a group of four men, apparently related to the traffic accident in northern Bogotá, lashed out at a journalistic team from Canal City TV. Regarding the fact, the Media Association (Asomedios) and the Foundation for Freedom of the Press (Flip), spoke out.

A school bus, which provides services to the Gimnasio Los Arrayanes school in Bogotá, overturned on the Norte Highway with 197 street. Twenty-nine minors were transported there, who, according to the Ministry of Health, are out of danger and have even been discharged from health centers, who suffered only minor bruises.

A team from the journalistic team of Canal City Tv approached the scene, in order to cover the accident. While they were doing the work, a group of four people began to obstruct the recordings, covered the plate of the overturned bus and began to block the shots, placing their hands on the news camera; until, the aggressions worsened.

Miguel Porras, was the journalist who was at the scene of the accident and who was injured, he stated:

In a statement, Asomedios expressed his “resounding rejection of the attacks of a group of violent people who physically attacked and insulted the journalistic team of the CityTV channel, on the occasion of the coverage of a traffic accident, which constitutes a news event of interest to the city of Bogotá ”.

In addition, this corporation called on the authorities to initiate the required investigations and punish this fact, which it described as “regrettable” and which, it warned, “jeopardized the physical integrity of the journalistic team of the CityTV channel and violated the fundamental right of both themselves and other citizens to freedom of information”.

For its part, Flip joined this statement by stating that “this type of violence is the result of intolerance against the work of journalists who investigate and report on matters of public interest. These attacks cannot be allowed in democracies.”

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