The journalist Rubén Gisbert worked exceptionally for the program Horizonte sur Cuatro for which he had to produce a live report concerning the floods which took place in the Valencia region.
The video shared on social networks and which now has nearly 1.5 million views, cost this Spanish journalist his job.
Also known as a lawyer and “YouTube activist”, Rubén Gisbert is at the heart of a controversy after the terrible floods which affected the Valencia region.
Indeed, this Monday, November 4, an Internet user published a sequence in which we see the journalist, who worked exceptionally for the program Horizonte on Cuatro, specifies El Confidencial, kneeling in the mud to add more “drama” before going live.
For his part, Iker Jiménez, the host and producer of the show, made it clear to our colleagues that this was in no way a request from him or from the production, but rather of a personal initiative of the journalist. : “I am frankly disgusted. This seems despicable to me,” also specifying that this way of doing things was “contrary to his professional ethics”.
Regarding Rubén Gisbert, who was finally fired, he defended himself in a video shared on the social network mud “up to the knees”, in a garage where he was.
Still according to El Confidencial, Rubén Gisbert is known in Spain for having traveled to eastern Ukraine and claimed that Zelensky's government was committing a “ethnic cleansing in Donbass” and for his “pro-Russian propaganda”. He was also hostile to the amnesty law allowing the return of Catalan separatists in exile.
