A. A.

Approximately at 1:30 hs. at dawn, we were resting and we heard two very strong explosions that got each of us the attention. It was a middle noice because here it usually sounds explosions, firecrackers, we are very close also of an emergency village called La Rana. With my wife we wake up, we were resting, we look through the window of the superior floor we didn't see anything and well, we continue resting, one of the boys woke up, we tranquilize him, they usually are explosions. At morning when I get up at about 7.00 in the morning, I go down and I see some tremendous havoc, splinters, etc., all spread by the corridor of the living-room of my house the low plant. Bullet impacts that they holed the door, obviously tremendous. We knew that it was an attack, no more nor less, we didn't realize of it. I went to the police station, here in Villa Ballester and they take my denounce. The experts come to see the bullet impacts, etc., and meanwhile the experts were studying, picking up the tests, pellets, etc., etc., etc., they discover there in one of the flower beds, in a small one that we have with flowers, a grenade. When the expert in explosives arrived, immediately he checked that it was a false device, and that it was not a true grenade but a good enough replica and well, obviously with the intention of intimidating us.

Journalist

Is this able to come from the side of the lecture that you are making about the death of Argaøa?

A. Avila

I think that it can come from that side, I suppose, I cannot suppose on other hand. I don't know what kind of relation could be. You know that we, as journalists, make investigations that people don't like many times, but we have to show the truth, the reality and if they favor somebody or to other it harms him, what we have to do is to show the truth. I believe that these acts that beyond being reluctant, not because it has been done on my person but because we know them the journalists, we are being threatened systematically, still beaten in our labor face, we suffer it, we don't give the importance to many threats that we receive. This have already exceeded a simple threat becoming a true intimidating attack against the freedom of speech and the freedom of journalism and journalistic. I regret it and what it gets my attention, is that, and it saddens me, it has been fair today the day in which we commemorate a new anniversary of the death of José Luís Cabezas.