2024-03-20 21:52:58
The Russian Government has refused to renew the visa of journalist Xavier Colás who, after 12 years reporting from Moscowhas had 24 hours to leave the country, a scenario that, according to EFE, many correspondents contemplated after the elections: “You didn’t need to be a fortune teller.“.
Colás, correspondent for El Mundo in Russia and Ukraine and contributor to Onda Cero, Telecinco and France24, explained that this expulsion is “a taste of what is to come and it’s not just going to be limited to the correspondents, who in the end don’t usually bear the brunt.”
The journalist, who is currently in Istanbul where will spend a week “trying to disconnect“, he reported that he found out yesterday at five in the afternoon, when he went to collect the visa after having received the invitation from the Ministry to stay for another three months.
As reported, They notified him that he was on a list of expelled and, although he asked to be informed which body was behind it, they told him that they had no obligation to give him any explanation.
“I don’t regret anything. I have simply done my job: I have told what is happening, I have spoken to the people who suffer because of it and I have explained who is responsible for what happens,” adds Colás in his account on X .
Colás emphasizes that “A correspondent has to be someone who writes without fear about the government as if the government is not watching him and at the same time he writes carefully about ordinary people as if they could really read him the next day. Never the other way around.”
It also refers to the ““Z” propagandists (the sign of support for the invasion) that “try to present our information from Moscow about oppression as a sign that there is no oppression.”
“From time to time a circle closes and their deception is exposed. Once again. We move forward. Along the same path,” he concludes his message on the social network.
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