07/02/2020 - 21:36
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Concerns are growing among representative entities of journalists and the media across the country about the possibility that federal judge Federico Villena will order the arrest of journalists in the case for alleged illegal Macrista espionage in the coming days .
Miter radio journalist Marcelo Longobardi said last night in TN that he was handling the version according to which the magistrate could detain "two journalists" pushed by K operators and lawyers for the complaints, including that of Cristina Kirchner and that of Hugo and Pablo Moyano. One of the two could be La Cornisa driver Luis Majul, who yesterday endured another wave of attacks and operations from K media. It is not known who the other could be. The concrete thing is yesterday, Judge Villena continued to reject prison exemptions from the 22 former officials and spies that he ordered to be detained in a spectacular operation. What's more, a few weeks ago, in an unprecedented attitude for Argentina, Rolando Graña's studio raided.
The representative entities of professional journalism have already contacted Majul with the Committee for the Protection of Journalists in New York and the OAS Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression to add an international defense to the support that the “La Cornisa” driver has already received. .
Loose Animals panelist Romina Manguel said that Daniel Llermanos, a Moyano lawyer, will request the accusation of Majul on Monday in the Lomas de Zamora case . She said that "when they show the Moyano the proof and take out the dossier they find that it is called Operation Majul." In the last days from Twitter, Llermanos and the ultra K deputies Rodolfo Taihlade and Eduardo Valdés, among others, launched more versions and false accusations against Majul and other journalists. Llermanos on Twitter announced that the C5N ADN program - which is run by former Cordovan councilor K Tomás Méndez - would continue to leak data on the cause of Lomas de Zamora, which until yesterday was under summary secrecy. He said that in DNA “it was shown that the content of LA CORNISA was made by the AFI and that its spies were also within the Study . More revelations coming soon. ”
In three communiqués released separately this week by the Academy of Journalism, ADEPA and FOPEA criticized Vice President Cristina Kirchner , for a video two weeks ago in which she accused several journalists of being complicit in an illegal association that spied on her illegally; and Senator Oscar Parrilli (Frente de Todos) for the harassment of journalists such as Luis Majul, Jorge Lanata, Daniel Santoro and Nicolás Wiñazki.
"When democracy needs more than ever to find consensus, statements like those of Senator Oscar Parrilli affect the climate of respect and dialogue. With this, it is only possible to impose fear and self-censorship, and it infringes on freedom of expression, " he said. the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA), after Senator K described Luis Majul as an "inorganic intelligence agent." Parrilli on Thursday compared Lanata with the dictator's repressor Alfredo Astiz, in an unusual but revealing attitude. the level of the operation against journalists that had started last year, with Operation Pouf against Santoro in the Dolores de Alejo Ramos Padilla court.The same methodology and almost the same operators that attacked Santoro now appear against Majul, Lanata and Wiñazki.
The Kirchner senator and former head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) of Cristina Kirchner told El Destape radio that there is "a list of journalists in addition to Majul", among whom he mentioned Lanata, Santoro and Wiñazki, as journalists who were in "collusion" with intelligence agents. According to his vision, Majul "did not do journalism, he did intelligence tasks and that is prohibited by law."
After the FOPEA statement, the Kirchnerist senator redoubled the bet and stated that " Lanata is to journalism, what (Alfredo) Astiz went to human rights", in an unusual comparison of the journalist with the genocide convicted of crimes against humanity .
For its part, the Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities (ADEPA) argued that "to pretend to hold a journalist responsible for the origin of information or to identify him with who may be one of his sources is to ignore the essence of investigative journalism. Furthermore, this affects the right to protect professional secrecy, protected by the National Constitution. "
ADEPA expressed its concern about political figures who "have again chosen the media and journalists as subjects of stigmatization in public discourse." These are "personal accusations that can lead to intimidation or aggression," said the entity. that "stigmatization and escrache limit freedom of expression." And he reiterated that "the so-called 'escraches' against journalists by political or institutional actors constitute a dangerous invitation to verbal and physical violence."
In the same sense, the National Academy of Journalism (ANP) expressed its "emphatic repudiation of attitudes or statements that mean harassment or offenses against journalists. The case of journalist Luis Majul, who denounced a campaign of follow-ups, threats and slander against him by people linked to the ruling party. " The ANP pointed out that it recorded "media scandals of several journalists by leading figures in the leadership of the State."
ADEPA also mentioned the videos of Cristina Kirchner, where she singled out journalists as complicit in an illicit association. "ADEPA reiterates that the so-called 'escraches' against journalists by political or institutional actors constitute a dangerous invitation to verbal and physical violence," the ADEPA statement said. "In our opinion, the recent videos that point to journalists, posted by the Vice President of the Nation, do not contribute in any way to this climate," ADEPA added.