The wave of criticism towards Iker Jimenezwhich is once again in the spotlight for the coverage that the ‘Horizonte’ team is carrying out on DANA in Valencia. The controversy began when Reporter Rubén Gisbert was caught red-handed purposely getting mud on himself to add more drama to his intervention in the program. A behavior from which the presenter completely distanced himself. «They have shown me a video that I was not aware of. I am worried because RUben Gisbert has done a commendable job, he has been transporting medicines for five days. Never in my life have I given the order to the team to get dirty or dramatize. He is a reporter who has told incredible things, who is from there and who is not part of the team, but who collaborates and has done a good job,” Jiménez published on the networks.
Last Tuesday, the mechanic Angel Gaitanfrequent collaborator of the Iker Jiménez program and one of the volunteers who is broadcasting humanitarian aid efforts On the ground, he left the people who would receive the arsenal of products he had to distribute in the hands of Instagram ‘likes’. «And I will explain the reason: we have to decide two towns that I am telling you about for the convoy of about twenty vans: Paiporta, Benetússer, Alfatar (Alfafar), Massanassa or Catarroja. Through comments, names are put and people vote. So the two towns that I like the most will be the towns we go to,” he explained in the video.
At the same time, the presenter of ‘Horizon’ revealed in his X profile that “in the Bonaire parking lot there are many bodies, many bodies.” Information that the National Police and Security Forces denied once the entire parking lot was drained. In fact, Fortunately, not a single death was found. in the underground parking lot of the shopping center.
“What the hell is one of my team doing, staining his pants… I apologize personally as the person in charge of this team for a very cumbersome situation. I thought I was Robin Hood and I’m not…”
Iker Jimenez #Horizon pic.twitter.com/JFJLE3kK7Z— Iker Jiménez (@navedelmisterio) November 7, 2024
The commotion has been such that the driver of ‘Horizon’ He announced that in the program this Thursday, November 7, he was going to reflect on what happened through self-criticism. “I have made successes and mistakes and it can be interesting for the audience and for me,” he admitted in a brief message on his profile on the old Twitter.
Iker Jiménez’s explanations
«What we have personally experienced is a tornado. A tornado like that one that devastated Valencia. Because believe me, the DANA is not a DANA, it is an absolute mistake to call it one even if it is. It’s like a complete destruction, and if you’re not there, you don’t understand anything,” the presenter began by saying before starting the program.
He also remembered that he had spent five days there. «And I have made mistakes. I also think that I have made some mistakes, that I have tried to help by giving my all. I believed myself to be Robin Hood a little, and in addition to informing, I wanted to save people. That is absolutely impossible. I have understood the chaos very well, even with the source and information. Yet. But the human experience is something unrepeatable. He also promised that he would give the explanations, “looking in the face and without scripts.” «We are willing to learn from this experience. “Me, the first.”
«They had to grab me, because I wanted to kill Ruben Gisbert,” admitted Jiménez, repeating several times that the reporter is not a collaborator of ‘Horizon’. «He was doing a great job, no one can take that away from him. Besides, I know there is no evil. Another thing is chaos, confusion. A very inappropriate video in this situation. But even though we are a team, I am responsible for even the last person who enters here. “I accept what happened,” he continued explaining.
He greatly emphasized that “Gisbert had been trying to help everyone for four or five days, no video is going to take that away.” Just as he defended him by saying that he was in psychological chaos, since he is from Catarroja and has lost friends in the tragedy. However, he insisted that he was not aware of anything. “I found out later with that viral video that it occurred to him to get mud on his legs, in a situation in which you can’t be thinking about the ‘racord’, or the makeup, or how you are.” As head of the format team, he apologized, “but believe me, Rubén later ends up in a garage up to his waist,” he reaffirmed.
Regarding the second “most painful” mistake, that of Bonaire, the presenter argued that he said it at a time when everything was a lack of coordination, including the sources. «It happened in the firefighters, in the Civil Guard, in the National Police, etc. You don’t know under what conditions these people have been working at the beginning… “I have never been happier that my sources fail and that I fail than with this,” he wanted to make clear.
«Please don’t tell them that I said there were 700 dead. “Here we talk about the capacity of 700 vehicles in the parking lot,” he pointed out. Although he could not reveal the sources, he assured that “there were three people who guessed right about the civil guards killed in Paiporta,” so they trusted them. However, the biggest mistake was his own indignation. «And a journalist cannot be too indignant. But I had become part of all this, I had seen people abandoned,” he explained, thus losing objectivity.
It was then that he launched the tweet in his personal capacity predicting that there would be many deaths. “It’s not Mediaset, neither ‘Horizon’, nor this program,” he stated bluntly. A mistake. «It was at my house, at dawn, up to my balls and thinking that they were deceiving us. “I really believe it.” Even so, he concluded, “I have never been so happy to fail at something, I give you my word.”
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