04/11/2021 11:31 PM
Clarín.com
Fame
Updated 04/11/2021 11:45 PM
The meat businessman Alberto Samid - who starred in a historic television fight with
Mauro Viale
- fired the journalist after learning of his death on Sunday night.
"It is such a sad night for Argentines .... I am really surprised by the death of Mauro," he said in an interview on Radio 10 with Teté Coustarot.
The businessman recalled the historic episode that took place in 2002, in a study in America, when he got
punched and kicked
with the journalist after Viale accused him on the air of endorsing the bomb to AMIA.
"One day we had an altercation that
I did not understand
that he was
a born provocateur
. He provoked me, I got angry, but over time I understood it with my family," he was honest.
He said that years later Daniel Scioli tried to manage a rapprochement between the two once they met in La Ñata, but he did not prosper.
"He has been a great provocateur.
Beyond that we never met again,
I did not have any grudges
. Nothing. It is a fact that happened, a discussion and nothing else. He kept doing it
, he
talks to one for 10 minutes and that's it. it is causing it. Each one earns his living as he can, "he analyzed.
In his networks, then, Samid fired the driver with a joke.
"You left without the fight ... we will meet. This is not going to stay that way. DEP (rest in peace)," he wrote in an Instagram story.
He was referring to a later episode: years later, after a controversial comment by Viale, he invited him to do the rematch of his fight at Luna Park, which never materialized.
Alberto Samid's personal card, in which he says "I have annoyance at Mauro Viale".
In fact, in his personal cards, Samid lists that he is a fan of Carlos Gardel, Boca and Ford, and adds: "I have annoyance at Mauro Viale."
Outside of that fight, Samid reiterated his condolences to Viale's family.
"We are very dismayed, my wife, my children and I. Terrible things that are happening. We followed him on television. We saw that he took care of himself, marked the distance, ate healthy, got up at five in the morning to do gymnastics. We are really very surprised, "said Samid.
"It is a pity that journalism in our country is
losing
.
It fell on us like an atomic bomb
," he continued.
Finally, he reinforced that with his family "we are very sad. The man was my age. We have to be careful. This boy gave away health," he said.
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