The group of subjects shouted “corrupt” to the journalist who asked Flores about two lawsuits against him.
“Out, corrupt journalist, out, corrupt journalist,” some 25 New Ideas militants shouted in a threatening tone to an El Diario de Hoy reporter after she was the candidate for mayor of Santa Tecla, La Libertad, for the ruling. party had questioned Henry Flores about two lawsuits.
The intimidating way in which the crowd of Nueva Ideas followers, who usually wore uniforms from the office of the Mayor of Santa Tecla, was towards the journalist caused him to leave the site to avoid some form of aggression, but under the shout of corrupt journalist “
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This incident took place in the context of Flores’ request for arrest against the mayor of Santa Tecla, Roberto D’aubuisson, for alleged violation of an order issued by the Chamber of Administrative Disputes to reinstate several of the City Hall employees who have been fired. The request was filed with the Attorney General’s Office.
Flores also convicted him of defamation, claiming that D’aubuisson has committed himself to spreading on the networks, a video in which a couple appears to be discussing while drunk, but according to the New Ideas candidate, the mayor assures Flowers.
However, Flores did not present any evidence to support his complaint against D’aubuisson.
Nor is there any known D´aubuisson or ARENA party network that the mayor has indicated that Flores is the one who appears in the video.
When asked what the two lawsuits against him for fraud and threats had yielded, Flores tried to get around the issue by holding the newspapers responsible for “making up” those cases.
“These rooms that the newspapers have devoted themselves to, because the papers also serve the ARENA party, they serve the FMLN,” said Flores, who did not want to answer any other questions about the lawsuits and withdrew.
He was arrested in June 2013 for allegedly threatening an employee of the National Registry Center.
The case went to court, but Flores did not comply with the measures that the Quinto de Paz court had imposed on the victim. On that occasion, the mediation with the offended woman failed because Flores did not comply with the measures imposed by the court.
In October 2019, he was reported by another person for serious fraud to the Attorney General’s office.
It is not the first time that people who accompany Flores have intimidated journalists.
On February 7, YSKL radio journalist, Manuel Pacheco, complained that he had been the victim of intimidation and defamation by the New Ideas candidate, Henry Flores, and other militants of the ruling party.
Pacheco said he came to cover a conversion event, but two female members of Nuevas Ideas came to him to take pictures with cameras and cell phones and began persecuting him, intending to prevent him from doing his job.
“I arrived today to report on the New Ideas event, in the town of Santa Tecla… The two young women immediately saw me, went out to meet me and started taking pictures and videos of me. They didn’t stop taking pictures of me, I felt harassed, ”the journalist said on the occasion.