(PERIODISTAS/IFEX) – Eduardo Delbono, owner of and reporter for the radio station Ciudad de Merlo, filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office after receiving a death threat from two individuals on Monday 20 November 2000. He was in a van at the time, driving through the Ituzaingo region, in the province of Buenos Aires. At […]
(PERIODISTAS/IFEX) – Eduardo Delbono, owner of and reporter for the radio station Ciudad de Merlo, filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office after receiving a death threat from two individuals on Monday 20 November 2000. He was in a van at the time, driving through the Ituzaingo region, in the province of Buenos Aires.
At approximately 7:00 p.m. (local time), Delbono was driving on Rivadavia Avenue, by a railroad crossing near the Ituzaingo central square, close to Merlo. In his report, the journalist notes that at that moment the driver of a green Volkswagen vehicle drove up next to him and said: “Son of a thousand bitches, you better stop getting mixed up with the municipality or else you are going to show up by the Reconquista river. You will not be the first nor the last in Merlo.” Delbono noticed a gun by the driver’s leg.
Delbono filed his report with the General Prosecutor’s Office for the Legal District of Moron. In the report, he notes that for more than a year “the Merlo Administrative Office has wanted to take my broadcasting antenna away,” because he lacks the necessary entitlement. “They are doing this without having ever notified me during the fourteen years I have been working in radio. I have never been asked any questions but, since 1999, they have carried out around thirty inspections, during which time they focused on such absurd details. Only Radio Ciudad has been subject to this kind of investigation,” Delbono informed PERIODISTAS.
The host of the radio programme Buenos Días Ciudad believes that this is “a persecution which began when the radio station refused to follow through on a request from the municipality’s Press and Distribution department. The department had asked that the radio station not broadcast statements by local citizens who were critical of the Merlo Administrative Office.”
