The Daily Mail
A Spanish lawyer and influencer filming videos in flood-ravaged Valencia for a news segment has been slammed after a clip emerged of him deliberately covering his knees with mud for the report.
Ruben Gisbert, from Valencia, was visiting flood-hit parts of the region while filming clips for Horizonte, a news programme directed and presented by Spanish journalist Iker Jimenez.
But an onlooker recording the scene from the window of their apartment caught the moment Gisbert took a few steps back and knelt down to make sure his legs were covered in dirt before returning to say his piece to camera.
Gisbert, who describes himself as a ‘practising lawyer and freedom revolutionary’, took to social media to point out his move was simply for continuity purposes, claiming he wanted to ensure his appearance would match an earlier shot so the programme could be presented as if it were live.
But enraged flood victims and commentators online have described the filming trick as ‘shameful’.
Horizonte’s Jimenez also released a video declaring he had never asked Gisbert to ‘dramatise something’ for the camera and said the influencer will no longer be allowed to collaborate with the programme for the ‘stupid’ behaviour.
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