Isa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him.
Ms Balado tried to continue, but was interrupted by the programme’s host.
“Isa, forgive me for interrupting you… but did he just touch your bottom?” Nacho Abad asked.
The reporter confirmed it, and Mr Abad told her to put the “idiot” on camera, to which the shot moves to show both Isa Balado and the man, who was still standing with her, smiling and laughing.
“As much as you want to ask what channel we are from, do you really have to touch my bottom? I’m doing a live show and I’m working,” Ms Balado told him.
The man then denied touching her, and as he walked away attempted to tickle her head.
Police later said a man had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a reporter while she was doing a live television show, in a message posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Well done to the host insisting they immediately put the “idiot” on camera.
I’m glad the host didn’t let her continue after seeing what happened and called that shit out. Small glimpses of hope in humanity
Kinda, but that’s almost the sad part? I don’t want to say the host did anything wrong, he absolutely did not. But the fact that she tried to continue doing the story is the tradgey here.
Isa was just a woman at her job, and this entitled ass felt comfortable enough groping her to do so on camera. I’m giving a 0% chance this was the first time he has dkne doing something like this, it was just the time it was recorded. She didn’t address it because there is a 100% chance she has had to deal with this behavior before. She was lucky in a sense to get this instant validation against his BS lies. It’s easy enough for him to just laugh it off and keep going, but it’s just so infuriating to see those sorts of laughs again and again.
The fact that this wasn’t shocking to her, but was shocking to him, should be shocking to everyone else.
You are definitely right. That was kind of my point.
It’s sad that her immediate response was to feel the need to remain “professional”, instead of slapping the douchebag.
Hopefully more hosts, producers, and maybe eventually the public can start making this behavior not ok
Well done to Spain for making a concerted effort to combat this type of behavior. I lived there for a while a decade+ ago (jesus Christ, has it been that long…) and the sexual aggression from the men was rampant and mind blowing. The women, in my experience, formed a hard exterior against this type of behavior, so there was a balance, but balance doesn’t matter when someone has to become incredibly defensive just because the other people are incredibly aggressive. So I’m glad to see some kind of reckoning with this.
Yeah Spain, Italy and to an extent France have real issues with this, it’s just something that’s never been properly addressed until recently.
I was talking to a French girl once about it, she said ‘if you want to kiss me you have to grab me and kiss me’ I basically said that if she wants to be kissed she has to show she wants to be kissed and for it to be a mutual thing - she told me that’s not sexy in France.
Would be great if we are seeing that old machismo worldview actually being challenged finally
I didn’t see the video in the article.
https://youtu.be/7-17P0KP-bc?si=DL8zlDUkqz_A54CL
This guy didn’t even try to hide it. Then tries to scratch or tickle her head when leaving.
WTF just a random pervert decides groping someone on the street is appropriate?
A lot of Europe has problems with this sort of thing, pretty much every woman I know that’s visited Italy has a story of having to flee an aggressive creep trying to grope and harass them. It’s one of those problems that just hasn’t been seriously addressed, people that bring it up are insulted and ignored, they say it’s part of the national character for hot blooded boys to be boys…
I think it’s starting to change as more youth are on more global communities like tiktok, they see that other people aren’t having to put up with it and aren’t accepting the excuses anymore.
It was strange to read an article about something recorded on video and see so many uses of “alleged” and “appears to”. Then I watch the video–which, as a surprise twist, the article doesn’t even include–to realize it’s definitely not ambiguous!
Maybe Spanish libel laws are more strict than I’m used to, but that is some seriously cautious journalism!
Tomorrow’s news: The play plays the victim on social media and his mum goes on a hunger strike in a church
It’s almost funny how absolutely oblivious people like him are to their actions. Even if there wasn’t a camera… he probably really thinks women are into this kind of harassment.
