„Jurnal” TV cameraman aggressed in Chisinau downtown

On Saturday, December 3, the cameraman Ion Diviza from „Jurnal” TV was aggressed in full street in Chisinau downtown while shooting a report alongside with other journalists from this TV channel. The aggressor proved to be a citizen who claimed his intimacy had been violated, Monitor Media Agency informs.

Alexandru Gurdila, one of the producers of „Deşteptarea” show from „Jurnal” TV, informed that he was shooting, together with the cameraman Ion Diviza, several persons who were browsing the Internet at their laptops in the public Garden „Ştefan cel Mare” from Chisinau, in the view of producing a material for the show.

„I understood that the concerned citizen did not approve the idea of being recorded on camera. For that reason, we went farther and were shooting people with laptops from distance”, Gurdila added for Monitor Media Agency.

„This thing has probably bothered the citizen since he started to insult us and, getting closer, he began to hit the camera and the cameraman”, Gurdila specified, stating that the riflemen who were passing by did not react at all although the shooting crew asked for help.

„In my opinion, we did not violate the intimacy of the respective citizen since we were shooting in a public place, and we could have not recorded him on camera at all”, Alexandru Gurdila concluded.

At the journalists’ request, the police came to the spot, appeasing the conflict. The case is being investigated by Buiucani Police Commissariat from Chisinau.