Moviment Graffitti will be registering a complaint on the behaviour of a PBS cameraman who allegedly insulted demonstrators while carrying out his duties.
At a solidarity event for migrants held yesterday, Graffitti said they clearly heard the PBS cameraman utter various disparaging remarks. They were not sure whether he was insulting them personally or if he was referring to migrants when he said: “Sometimes I feel like setting them on fire”.
Graffitti activist Dorianne Apap said the PBS staff member called her a buffoon (purcinella) while she distributed press releases and information leaflets, accusing her that she had no idea what information was contained in the material that she was distributing.
“He also referred to us, in disparaging tones, as those who keep defending ‘the blacks and the lions’,” Apap said referring to Graffitti’s recent anti-circus protest. “I do not think this was a very professional thing to say while he was fulfilling his journalistic duties.”
In a reaction, PBS news manager Natalino Fenech told MaltaToday that Graffitti activists should file any complaints on PBS staff to the station’s human resources department. “Any disciplinary measures within PBS are regulated by a collective agreement and there are procedures that have to be followed so that no one can claim a case has been prejudiced,” Fenech said.
Graffitti spokesperson Andre Callus said that the organisation is in the process of filing a formal complaint with PBS.
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