Controversy in the networks after the flag in the Obelisk: "I am not an infiltrator", says the woman who defended the journalist K Ezequiel Guazzora

Pablo Javier Blanco

07/10/2020 - 13:06

• Clarín.com
• Politics

The flag called by social networks for this July 9 generated controversy after the incidents that occurred in the Obelisk and which included an attack on a C5N channel mobile and blows against the ultra K militant  Ezequiel Guazzora , who had to take refuge in a kiosk.

Twitter was the scene of the discussion, where the Macrismo militants assured that the aggressions were initiated by Kirchner infiltrators and, in turn, the official sympathizers pointed out that events such as those that occurred in their marches during the presidential administration of Mauritius were repeated Macri, in which they "insured" the incidents were caused by members of the PRO.

"The violence is the product of Macri's drop in line, " said Ezequiel Guazzora, in dialogue with Víctor Hugo Morales, on AM750 radio.

The Popular Revolution leader was the target of attacks that clouded the mobilization and his slogans against the Government. When the event occurred, as recorded in the videos on television channels, a group of people participating in the mobilization tried to defend the assaulted and end the violence.  

However, this situation became the trigger for a controversy that took hold on the networks: several users came out to warn that those responsible for the incidents were K infiltrators and pointed to those who tried to interpose themselves between Guazzora and his attackers. "They want to overshadow the flag," was one of the messages. 

The attack on the phone was armed x infiltrators k. They want to overshadow the flag x 3 infiltrators

Fernando Iglesias, deputy of Together for Change, also viralized the alleged images of infiltrators. "I would like someone to explain this," he said, pointing to people who prevented them from continuing to hit militant K. 

I reiterate my rejection of all attacks. Violence is never justified, even if it is carried out against provocateurs.
I would also like someone to explain this @ C5N pic.twitter.com/C9pDkJnx3h

Alejandro Fargosi, a lawyer and a former member of the Judicial Council, was another of the people who, on Twitter, showed the image of those who stood between the blows and Guazzora, who is also a former employee of the Merlo municipality, whom he resigned from. week as Clarín could confirm . 

"For facial recognition , " Fargosi ​​wrote, pointing to a woman and boy with red arrows. Something similar was argued by economist Agustín Etchebarne, who accused these people of being "infiltrators" in a 100% peaceful mobilization.

Photos are circulating showing that the alleged attack on C5N was orchestrated by three infiltrators in a 100% peaceful march. It is easy to identify them, I hope some prosecutor will act. pic.twitter.com/qOLKo6CMPZ

Etchebarne pointed to a young man who had a light blue scarf and who was interviewed by C5N. That boy appears in the riots and finally comes out defending Guazzora. The economist also showed a woman in a pink jacket.

The woman in the photos

Patricia with her pink jacket that went viral in the photos that were taken out of context to accuse her of infiltrating K.

The woman in question is called Patricia Matheu , she is a journalist, worked as a producer on radio and TV, and lives eight blocks from the Obelisk.

On Thursday, despite the recommendations of her family, who asked her not to go to the march because she could get coronavirus, she spent a while since she had to go to the pharmacy.

He never imagined what would happen to him.

She was standing, applauding and watching the massive march, when suddenly she saw a group of people coming towards her, chasing after the blows to Guazzora.

Immediately, her instinct led her to protect him from a rain of blows and kicks, to the point of transforming into a kind of human shield against the violent ones. She ended up taking several of the hits. 

His image was viralized by posts from political leaders and even journalists. In the networks they accused her of being an infiltrator K and since then she has not stopped receiving grievances online.

For facial examinations pic.twitter.com/NVHM2wXZJ0

"I tell you that I hate violence on one side and the other, that's why I acted in defense of the victim," she told Clarín , still nervous about what she has to live.

"I saw the malón of people coming and I defended it, I feel bad because they pass my image saying that it hit him, saying that he was all armed," Patricia explained.

And he added: "What I shout is 'stop hitting him, it is a march, there cannot be this violence.'"

Even Patricia had to go out to clarify that she is a supporter of the PRO and not a Kirchnerist , as many said on networks, by taking the photos of the incidents out of context.

Last night, when she was at home, suddenly a cataract of messages flooded her phone. They told her that in the Baby Etchecopar program they were pointing her out as an infiltrator.

For that reason, today he went to the radio to explain to the driver that he was wrong. It was attended by one of its panelists, Ricardo Benedetti.

"I spoke with Patricia Matheu after the radio, she is a PRO member in commune 2 and she felt bad. Yesterday she attended the militant chronicler Guazzora so that they did not attack him in a civilized attitude, and some of us believed that she was part of a 'organized attack'. Denied, "he wrote on Twitter. 

She also clarified that she does not work for PRO, but is an administrative employee and that she went alone to the Obelisk. She did supervise and militate for macrismo, distributing brochures in different elections.

The photo of Patricia Matheu with the Baby Etchecopar columnist on radio Rivadavia.

Reliving the march, he explained that he reacted because he did not tolerate seeing that scene of violence. What's more, he also repudiated the actions of the militant chronicler who, according to what he told Clarín , continued to provoke the protesters when the gate of the kiosk in which he sheltered was low. 

"I rehired him, I told him 'I am saving your ass, you kick people , I am a journalist and I do my job, you do not do journalism'," he crossed to Guazzora when the beating had ended.

What's more, he replied on Twitter when the militant K uploaded a video recounting what happened: "Listen to me, stop playing the poor thing. If a woman didn't save you and went ahead to cover you, they would kill you. So don't play handsome They almost lynched you for attacking and kicking the protesters. Tell the truth, Guazzora, you did it to victimize yourself. "

"I was not with anyone, nor am I an infiltrator K, I went alone and ate this hock. We cannot naturalize that things like this happen, what do they want because I do not think how he let them kill him, if we did not stop him they lynched him" described.

The boy in the photos

The young man who was accused of being infiltrated K.

Santiago is the other protagonist of this viral accusation crossing. Interviewed by the attacked, the young man identified himself as a "right-wing" person, said he was a voter of Juan José Gómez Centurión, and maintained that he had defended him because it seemed wrong for them to attack journalists. He did not want that to be the focus of some channels in his coverage by the flag.

“The truth is that I am at odds with his thought, many times I even insulted him because I am in the line of Baby [Etchecopar], I am in the line of [Eduardo] Feinmann. Nothing to do with him and I was never in the situation of having to put the body so that they do not hit him, "he said.

The young man, with a two-life scarf around his neck, said that what he did was a human matter.

“ You are a Peronist, I am a gorilla, everything is fine, but this is not going. Do you understand This is pure fascism, neither the violence of the left nor the violence of the right. Because if La Cámpora wants to screw up Baby tomorrow and we are all going to say 'what motherfuckers,' "she continued.

"The one who hits journalism is a son of a bitch, sorry words," said the young man. "I'm from the right, but C5N is the only medium that plays the microphone live and says 'skinny, why are you here.' And they kicked them out while trying to say that we marched for freedom of expression, ”he explained, repudiating the attack on the TV mobile.

That phrase describes the image that later went viral to accuse him of being an infiltrator. In it, he is observed making statements to the news channel. "It makes me angry because later, unfortunately, the genuine claim is not going to come out, it is going to come out that they almost killed Ezequiel and that they kicked C5N's cell phone," he added.

LB