G20 Summit: Canadian expert tells how his assault attempt in Puerto Madero was violent – 11/28/2018

John Kirton withdrew his credentials to cover his thirteenth G20 Summit and I walked with two colleagues for the buses that move to the media center, when he suffered an attempted violent badault by two young people "in their twenties" who held him "behind and in front".

The Canadian expert said Clarin how was the violent episode and told that? luckily he had the help of Madeline and Brittaney, two colleagues who accompanied him.

"They did not beat me, but they pushed me down and hurt my leg," explained Kirton, adding that this had happened to "15 15 hours, at the intersection of Lavalle and Madero, a few meters from Luna Park.

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"It happened just after I recovered my credentials at the G20 Summit and headed for the site where the G20 carriers would take us to the press center." There was no security on the road, "he insisted.

Kirton denounced the fact, but asked that the police made him "fill out a form, but they refused to show me pictures of possible suspects and come back with me to the scene to get a more detailed picture of what's going on." Had pbaded or to see if my attackers were still there. "

And he added with resignation: "They said it happened to tourists three times a day in this street".

He admitted that he "knew the security situation in Argentina" for information posted on the website of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada, "but not as part of the process of accreditation of the media ", he added.

Kirton is an expert on summits like the G20. The one made in Buenos Aires is at its thirteenth, but never before has it experienced a similar episode.

He wryly counted on his Twitter account: "After 31 G7 Summits, twelve G20 Summit and one of the BRICS since 1988, my luck and host security finally came exhausted, do not cry for me, cry for Argentina. "

Report: Pablo Javier Blanco.