Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)

La Sexta TV crew obstructed and insulted during COVID-19 protest in Madrid

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A reporting crew for La Sexta TV in Spain was verbally insulted and physically obstructed from carrying out their professional duties as they reported from a protest in Madrid against the government’s COVID-19 measures. During the incident, one protester damaged the crew’s journalistic equipment by spraying one of the camera lenses with black paint.

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