The group of subjects shouted “corrupt” at the journalist who asked Flores about two lawsuits against him.
“Out, corrupt journalist, out, corrupt journalist,” 25 New Ideas activists shouted threateningly at a journalist in El Diario de Hoy after questioning the Santa Tecla mayoral candidate. At Libertad, for the ruling party, Henry Flores on two lawsuits.
The intimidating manner of the crowd of Nueva Ideas followers, who wore mostly Santa Tecla City Hall uniforms, towards the journalist made him leave the site to avoid some kind of aggression, but amid the cries of “corrupt journalist , to be a corrupt journalist “
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This incident occurred in the arrest petition filed by Flores against the mayor of Santa Tecla, Roberto D´aubuisson for allegedly violating an order from the Administrative Litigation Chamber for the reinstatement of several dismissed city hall employees. The request was addressed to the General Prosecutor’s Office.
Flores also denounced him for defamation because, according to him, D’aubuisson dedicated himself to dissemination on networks, a video in which a couple appears arguing while intoxicated, but, according to the candidate for New Ideas, the mayor assures that it’s about Flowers. .
However, Flores did not present any evidence in support of his complaint against D´aubuisson.
There is also no publication in any D´aubuisson or ARENA party network that the mayor has indicated that Flores is the one appearing in the video.
When asked what the results of the two lawsuits against him for fraud and threats were, Flores tried to evade the issue, answering the newspapers for “inventing” those cases.
“These rooms that the newspapers have dedicated to writing, because the newspapers also serve the ARENA party, they serve the FMLN,” said Flores, who did not want to answer other questions about the trials and withdrew.
In June 2013, he was captured for threatening an employee of the National Registry Center. The case went to court, but Flores did not follow the measures that the court of Quinto de Paz had imposed on the victim. On that occasion, the conciliation with the offended woman failed due to Flores’ non-compliance with the court’s measures.
In October 2019, he was reported by another person for aggravated fraud at the General Prosecutor’s Office.
This is not the first time that the people who accompany Flores have committed acts of intimidation against journalists.
On February 7, YSKL radio journalist Manuel Pacheco denounced being the victim of harassment and slander by New Ideas candidate Henry Flores and other ruling party activists.
Pacheco said he came to cover a proselytizing event, but two female members of Nuevas Ideas came out to meet him to take pictures with cameras and cell phones and began harassing him, with the intent of preventing him from do the job.
“I arrived today to cover the New Ideas event, in the city of Santa Tecla … The two young women saw me immediately, went out to meet me and started taking photos and videos of me. They didn’t stop taking pictures of me, I felt harassed “, said the journalist on that occasion.