This Tuesday, September 12, 2023, journalist Isa Balado was providing a duplex live on television when a man approached her to touch her buttocks. Images of the journalist’s sexual assault quickly went around the world.
It’s a surreal scene that sparked a strong reaction on social networks. This Tuesday, September 12, 2023, the journalist Isa Balado provided a duplex as part of the show In a box of todos on the chain Cuatro, when a passerby approached her. Directly, the man reached out to her and slid his hand down her back to her buttocks.
Very calm even though she had just suffered a live sexual assault, the journalist simply asked the man to move aside, explaining to him that he was live on television. Shocked by the scene, the presenter on the other end of the phone, on the set of the television show, Nacho Abad then rushed to help him remotely. “Sorry Isa, I’m interrupting you but did he just put a hand on your butt there? Hand me that imbecile.” he said.
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Assault on Isa Balado: the individual arrested by the police
Isa Balado then turned to her attacker to try to make him understand that he had just done something wrong. “Even if you want to ask us what channel we are on, do you really need to touch my butt? I’m doing a live show, I’m working” she explained to him. Not enough to alert the passerby who denied having touched her buttocks… and even touched her hair with disdain before leaving.
Disconcerted, the journalist then apologized for having interrupted the duplex. “It’s not your place to be sorry. You’re doing your job and this idiot comes along and touches your ass live without any rights” his colleague Nacho Abad then reassured him. The scene filmed and relayed on social networks by viewers generated thousands of reactions internationally.
The film crew having informed the police after taking care of the journalist, the man was arrested a few minutes later. It was then the images of his arrest which were broadcast on social networks.