TVE explains what happened after the viral robbery on a Barcelona beach

  • Such has been the repercussion in social networks, that terms like “RTVE”, “theft” or “Barcelona” have been trending on Google in the last few hours

Spanish Radio Television (RTVE) He has given explanations about what happened after the viral robbery on a Barcelona beach that his team recorded during an interview. During the days 13 and 14 August, in social networks a video recorded by a TVE team that accidentally captures the exact moment in which a theft occurs on a Barcelona beach.

Some users have accused the public broadcaster of not reporting what happened for political reasons, laments RTVE. not true, go on. The fact is real and the images were provided by RTVE to the police authorities. Once the case was resolved, a news item explaining the facts was broadcast on the news.

“RTVE records live a robbery on the Barcelona beach” we read on Twitter. The message adds that “neither the reporter nor the cameraman denounced it. Nor do they inform the victim when he realizes & rdquor ;.

There are users who maintain that TVE hid this information for political reasons such as the one that states that “TVE whitens the insecurity that exists in Barcelona & rdquor ;. Such has been the repercussion in social networks, that terms like “RTVE”, “theft” or “Barcelona” They have been trending on Google in the last few hours. These accusations are false, insite. RTVE sent the images to the authorities before broadcasting them and, thanks to this recording, the thief could be identified and the case solved.

“In the recording of just 43 seconds, you can see how a team from TVE asks a tourist what he thinks of his visit to the city of Barcelona. It is at minute 00:12 when an individual with a blue shirt and cap appears on the screen. This man picks up a black bag from the ground and walks away quickly. A few seconds later, the victim realizes what has happened and asks for the collaboration of the people: “My bag, has anyone seen it? (…) Please, the bag.”

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The robbery recorded by a TVE team in Barcelona was not broadcast live, continues the public channel, as erroneously stated in several of the messages that have been spread on networks. This is confirmed to VerificaRTVE by the deputy director of News for TVE in Catalonia, Marta Ribas, who clarifies that “those images were recorded and were part of the preparation of a report & rdquor; on tourism and hotel occupancy in Barcelona.

Ribas explains that the cameraman and the reporter recorded the interview on the Sant Miquel beach in Barcelona on Saturday August 13. The theft of a backpack deposited in the sand occurs in the background of the image while the interview is taking place “[durante la grabación]. At no time do they realize what is happening behind it”, insists Ribas, who assures that “when they arrive at the newsroom and see those images to choose the totals [declaraciones] is when it is detected & rdquor ;. At that time, the news directorate of TVE in Catalonia contacted the Mossos d’Esquadra: “we provide them with these images without us broadcasting them so that they can proceed to identify the suspect”.



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