The journalist Antonio García Ferreras has tried to defend himself this Monday on his return to the front of the Al Rojo Vivo program of La Sexta after controversial audios of a conversation between him and former commissioner Villarejo were leaked this weekend.
At the start of the program, Ferreras stressed that he has “nothing to hide” and accused the former Secretary General of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, of “lying” by ensuring that the program published information about the Grenadines case knowing that “it was false” .
Ferreras has defended his position arguing that the recorded conversation took place after it was published. “We have never given false information,” she insisted. The journalist justifies the conversation precisely by verifying that information, adding that “the first thing we did was call Iglesias, I personally told him about it.”
Along the same lines, the also director of La Sexta has stressed that the chain was, at the time, “very critical” with the information from other media that splashed about Podemos, and has admitted that, once it was known that the bank account of the Grenadine Islands imputed to Iglesias “wasn’t real”, “we shouldn’t have given anything at all”.
The former Vice President of the Government and founder of Podemos has attributed this morning in statements to Rac1 the interested leak about an alleged account opened by him in Grenadines to “the mafia structure of the media sewers”.
In May 2016, the digital newspaper Ok Diario published information according to which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro deposited 272,325 dollars for Iglesias in a supposedly open slope in a tax haven. The information, which turned out to be false, was broadcast on the Sixth in an interview between the director of Al Rojo Vivo, Antonio García Ferreras, and the director of OK Diario, Eduardo Inda.
A few days ago, a recording of those made by Commissioner Villarejo emerged who, in a conversation with García Ferreras, questioned the veracity of the information before it was disclosed on his program in the interview with Eduardo Inda. Despite Ferreras’s doubts, the chain gave fuel to the information.
In these conversations initially disclosed by Crónica Libre, it is noted how Ferreras does not trust the information that he had transferred to the director, Eduardo Inda. “Eduardo, that’s very serious, I’m going with that, but it’s very delicate and it’s too sloppy,” says Garcia Ferreras.
“These are Bolivarians, who have all been there. They have never hidden. Now, I don’t think Pablo Iglesias will open an account in the Grenadines in his name so that Maduro can send him 200,000 euros. They are much smarter,” the journalist reasons. of ‘The Sixth’.
Various Latin American presidents, López Obrador, Boric, Fernández and Petro have shown solidarity with Iglesias, which has led the former Vice President of the Government to reproach Sánchez for not having done so yet.
Ferreras’ speech has already had a response from Iglesias, who from Twitter has asked the presenter to let him enter his space.
