Brutal Aggression Against An Indymedia Correspondent
Por xmux (translation) - Tuesday, Jun. 10, 2003 at 2:28 PM

Brutal beating of a Indymedia photographer in the repression at Brukman.

During the repression, Alejandro Golín, an 18 year old photographer from Indymedia, was heavily beaten by several police angrily and with full knowledge that he was a journalist.

Shouting "Que botoneas?" (What do you think you're showing?) the police tried to break his camera, hit him in the head with a shotgun, and then several police officers continued to beat him while he was on ground with kicks and truncheons. Not content with that, the police line advanced and continued beating him. Our compañero was only trying to defend himself, wielding his badge that identified himself as a member of the press. It should be noted that at the moment he was beaten Alejandro was clearly and visibly carrying his press credential and was simply working as a journalist.

Alejandro was the only compañero that was treated urgently at the Ramos Mejia hospital, where he recieved three stitches on his head and had a swollen leg examined. This time it can't be said that this was about "collateral damage" or a mistake. It was a deliberate and treacherous attack against a reporter from one of the few media present at the time of the repression.

Although workers in the press are used to receiving this type of violence from the federal police, what we experienced today completely stuns us and makes us think that as journalists we have become moving targets.

The editorial collective of Buenos Aires Indymedia, denounces that once again the press suffers persecution, repression, and that these facts are doubly serious when they are about a police station that already has a previous record of repression against press workers such as what occured during the incidents on April 21 at Brukman when several compañeros from the media were attacked.

Tommorow we will present the accusation and evaluate the steps to take.

We want to make clear that this repressive action isn't going to stop our work. For each camera silenced, ten more will rise up to continue showing the reality that police like sub-deputy Mario Bravo, today in charge of the repression at Brukman, want to hide like in the worst years of the dictatorship.

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