(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 December 2006, a group of supporters of the late former dictator Augusto Pinochet reacted violently against journalists who were covering the details of the retired general’s death. Thousands of militants who were stationed outside Santiago de Chile’s Military Hospital, where the former dictator had died, threw coins and bottles at the […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 December 2006, a group of supporters of the late former dictator Augusto Pinochet reacted violently against journalists who were covering the details of the retired general’s death. Thousands of militants who were stationed outside Santiago de Chile’s Military Hospital, where the former dictator had died, threw coins and bottles at the journalists.
The insults and the belligerency were aimed at reporters from Channel 11 Chilevisión, after its main newscaster, Alejandro Guillier, questioned the veracity of reports on the heart attack that Pinochet suffered on 3 December.
The Channel 7 National Television team was also attacked by the former dictator’s followers. Journalist Carolina Segura had her microphone snatched away from her while she was reporting on the reactions of the deceased general’s supporters.
