Video: They arrested a journalist in Chile and demanded her release

The confrontation between the police and left-wing organizations heading towards the Chilean consulate in Buenos Aires left a balance between several columnists and cameramen attacked and A journalist arrested. Myriam Selhi Ousset Garronea worker at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) was arrested while filming the incident.

A video shows when the woman, born in Canada, was dragged to the floor while a crate was trying to handcuff her. The episode is produced in Esmeralda and Perón. From CELS they assure that the journalist was instead to fulfill his task and that the capture took place when he approached one of the detainees to find out his name and know the reason for his arrest.

Faced with this scenario, they demand his immediate release, which could happen Tuesday. "What we do know is that he approached one of the detainees to find out his name and know why he was captured. the money is thrown on it, it drops off its cellphone, who, fortunately, found it later, and there they stop it. I was working", explained the CELS to TN.com.ar.

A source from the municipal police responded that the journalist had been arrested for "resistance to authority."

The woman was immediately transferred to the police station 8 in Villa Lugano, where she spent the night waiting to testify. She was arrested for resisting authority, but CELS asserted that she had no connection with the recorded violence in the diagonal north and in Florida.

There, journalists and cameramen were attacked by demonstrators who beat them. One of the assaulted was the worker of The nation +, Pablo Soria, who was shot in the head and should have received four stitches as a result of the deep wounds that he suffered.

"We went with the cameramen to cover us because we saw a race and they suddenly appeared to us from all sides. They caught me by the back. My camera and my backpack were stolen. They beat us everywhere, "said Fabio Soria, one of the attacked workers.