(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 February 2007, Radio Única 102.7 journalist Miguel Bellorín was assaulted by Horangel Pérez, a municipal official, when he was interviewing two citizens near the municipal building of Upata, a town in southern Venezuela. According to Bellorín, his assailant pushed him away from the persons he was interviewing, insulted him and hit […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 February 2007, Radio Única 102.7 journalist Miguel Bellorín was assaulted by Horangel Pérez, a municipal official, when he was interviewing two citizens near the municipal building of Upata, a town in southern Venezuela.
According to Bellorín, his assailant pushed him away from the persons he was interviewing, insulted him and hit him in the face and chest without offering any explanation. A group of reporters who were in the area intervened to prevent the assault from escalating.
The journalist is certain that the attacks were caused by reports broadcast by him about the lack of a landfill for the area’s population. Bellorín stated that he was expecting this kind of reaction after he was insulted by the mayor, Cruz Francisco Contreras, during another radio programme for reporting on the subject.
