This Tuesday, the journalistic team of the LN+ signal covered the flooding of streets in Quilmes due to the flooding of the Río de la Plata.
During a break, after noon, a neighbor approached and stole the camera with which the cell phone was working.
In a lightning operation, the Police arrested three people.
Journalist Lucas Jerez, from La Nación+, went on air since the morning, covering the flooding in streets
in the riverside area of Quilmes,
which together with Tigre suffered the consequences of the rise in river level.
After 2 p.m., the team rested from their work in a neighborhood in that Buenos Aires district.
Cameraman Diego Pérez Mendoza lowered the camera, which was still on.
At that moment, a shadow appeared on the street, struggled with him and took the camera.
According to the journalist's testimony, there were at least two people who assaulted them.
One of those arrested for the theft of a camera from an LN+ mobile phone.
Photo Capture LN+
After learning of the incident,
the Buenos Aires Police intervened and arrested three people
, after carrying out a lock operation in the neighborhood.
According to the chronicler, the criminal, whom he had previously interviewed about the situation in the neighborhood due to the rising water, in a moment of distraction grabbed his collaborator's camera and went into an internal street of the neighborhood.
"They stole our camera, it was an outburst.
It didn't go any further because there was only one person at the local police security checkpoint. Four or five cell phones arrived," commented the journalist.
The patrol car attacked by residents of Quilmes after the theft of an LN+ camera.
LN+ capture
The moment of the robbery was recorded on the camera that was still on, which caused more indignation among the journalistic team, who later reported the criminal act to the Police.
The neighbors responded to the lightning police operation in the neighborhood by throwing stones and projectiles at the patrol cars, whose windows were broken.
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