The journalist Alejandro Alfie printed a collection of testimonies on the social community Pedro Brieger for sexual harassment of 5 girls. The tales cowl a interval of 25 years and determine occasions dedicated between 1994 and 2019.
In response to Alfie, the victims embrace a journalist from Télam, a journalist who interviewed him, a gender columnist from his personal radio program, a scholar on the TEA journalism faculty and a secretary on the College of Belgrano (UB). As soon as these testimonies had been disseminated on X, some customers added their very own expertise and the group Periodistas Argentinas echoed the complaints, which for the second weren’t filed in court docket.
“The journalist Cecilia Guardati, then a journalist from Télam, in 2008 went to cowl President Cristina Kirchner’s tour in Tunisia,” Alfie begins the story of one of many instances. “’She was in Tunisia. We had been notified by the Presidency that Cristina Kirchner was going to talk after dinner. Brieger instructed me that she could not go and he or she requested me to present him the audio of her when she returned from that assembly. As a colleague, I had no drawback,’ Guardati stated. ‘So upon getting back from the convention with Cristina Kirchner, I obtain one other message from Brieger, asking me if she may take her audio to her room and inform her what Cristina had stated in that assembly. On this sort of journey, the room is reworked into an workplace, so I by no means imagined what would occur there later. Once I get to her room, I see that the door was ajar. So, I logged in and I discover Brieger bare, mendacity on the again of the mattress, speaking to me and protecting himself with a sheet, masturbating whereas he talked to me. I left instantly and by no means spoke to him once more. Think about that that they had despatched him to cowl Cristina Kirchner’s tour, for Public TV, and he was doing this,” Guardati instructed me,” he concluded.
In response to what she stated, the journalist didn’t make the grievance as a result of she was not conscious that it was one thing that may very well be reported, along with the concern attributable to dealing with a “journalist in energy, with political ties.” One thing much like what was put ahead by the opposite girls who reported harassment conditions that had been detailed by Alfie in X.
The journalist defined in his thread that the investigation started after he printed in Clarín in October of final yr a few labor lawsuit that “a global journalist” gained towards Public TV and Nationwide Radio. On that event, the individual concerned needed to be compensated with $224 million for ten years of labor, a determine that public media attorneys described as “exorbitant and disproportionate.” Following that article, a journalist from Télam contacted Alfie to report an episode of harassment on a visit to Tunisia, which motivated the start of this broader investigation.
Brieger strongly denied all allegations. “What you intend under no circumstances occurred. My life was, is and will likely be public, I’m a journalist,” she stated in response to Alfie’s questions. Moreover, he assured that he has no contact with the aforementioned girls and careworn that these are unfounded accusations.
The accused journalist additionally warned of attainable authorized motion if the allegations persist, suggesting they may very well be used to divert consideration from “different authorities issues.” “In the event that they drive you to publish it anyway, do no matter you need as a result of the reality all the time prevails,” Brieger stated.
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