Adif security personnel prevent a live broadcast by TV3

BarcelonaThis Tuesday, Telenotícies vespre connected live to Sants station to report on the situation with Rodalies after the R1 and R4 lines had their service interrupted due to a fire. While journalist Oriol Freixenet Guitart was trying to explain what was happening with Rodalies, a member of Adif's security team put their hand in front of the camera to prevent public television from continuing to report. "Renfe's security agents are preventing us from doing this live broadcast. We came with Renfe's permission and they are interrupting us. We cannot explain more than what we were explaining to you, that the service has been interrupted," said the journalist, while from the production of Telenotícies vespre they were inserting B-roll footage of Sants station.

The interruption of the connection occurred when Freixenet had been reporting live for just over a minute. Adif maintains that the situation was due to a "misunderstanding" and that it was subsequently "resolved." For now, TV3 has declined to comment on the incident that took place in Sants. However, when the video of the security agent censoring the live broadcast began to circulate yesterday, TV3 journalists publicly protested against this violation of the right to information. "Shameful. Oriol and Alfons [Casado] were where they needed to be, reporting from Sants, and they had processed the relevant permit with Adif to do so. It is outrageous that workers informing about such a serious crisis as Rodalies are treated like this," said journalist Pere Bosch, who is part of the Society section of TV3's news, via X.

"As a TV3 journalist, I have gone to Sants station and other stations many times to make live broadcasts and shoots, and we always ask for authorization from Adif, which they always give us in writing. An apprentice Torrente who acted crudely on his own or by receiving orders from someone?" wondered journalist Jordi Eroles i Asensio on X.