A recalcitrant worker on the site on the CET passage physically assaulted a journalist on Tuesday, November 7, around 14:00.
Regrettable moments, exacerbated anger, uncontrolled nerves from a worker who, after swearing that we can not play in this space, went to the deeds. In the first stage, he broke the journalist's badge with a violent jab of arm, but also a reflective safety vest with the MEDIA insignia. Then, the worker, who had a wooden bat, about one meter tall, began to strike. There have been moments, we can say hard for a journalist who tried, at the same time, not to respond with physical violence, not to hit the worker and defend himself with the hands of the outgoing person.
How did it happen?
The field journalist, according to procedures, was properly equipped, namely: MEDIA reflective vest, PRESS badge, and camera. He parked the car at the entrance to the construction site and headed for the site engineer to present himself and ask for permission to take some pictures. Permission granted to him by the site manager. After finishing the job, it was announced that the car with which the journalist had arrived blocked a machine that had to sprinkle water with the sand from the entrance of the belt to the passage from Misplace, right to the CET. The journalist walked into the runway to take the car. Well, when he got to the car, a worker, who always moved a bat in his hand, began to swear at the door of the tent. The journalist tried to explain to him that he would leave and that he was sorry, but also that he was from the press and made a documentary. There followed the act of violence by which, inexplicably, the worker broke the vest and the badge with a violent jerk, and began to throw with his butt, his free hand and his feet in the journalist. This, in order to avoid the blows directed to the head, came close to the worker. He was hit in the cheek and in the left hand in an attempt to defend himself. Then, the call to the 112 emergency numbers followed, and in a very short time the gendarmes’ crew arrived. After the arrival of the janadarmers, the worker, of course, threw the bat in his hand and said he was sorry for what had happened. He blamed the nerves on the ground and was much stressed.
Eventually, the journalist chose not to go to court with this case, but the worker in safety clothing would be served a fine in contravention, just because such reprehensible violence would not happen again. "The recalcitrant person received a counter-sanction according to Law 61, amounting to 200 lei, to provoke the scandal," Daniel Monodrama, the spokesperson for the Gendarmerie County Inspectorate Arad.
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