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Colombia: Journalist Camila Zuluaga denounces harassment from president's fans and asks leader to respect the press

"With a broken voice and through a letter addressed to President Gustavo Petro, journalist Camila Zuluaga, from Blu Radio station, denounced this Wednesday [May 31] harassment and pursuit at the hands of fans of the president. According to the communicator, the origin of these types of attacks and intimidation is the president's constant confrontations with media, for which she asked him to reflect and put a stop to disputes on social networks.

In her letter, the journalist referred to a video circulating on social networks in which she is seen accompanied by her partner, her young daughter, and a woman whom she identified as a domestic worker walking down a street in Bogotá. However, the images ensure that the woman who appears next to Zuluaga is supposedly the former babysitter of Laura Sarabia, the President's chief of staff, implicated in a scandal for allegedly subjecting the worker to a polygraph irregularly.

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...the Attorney General's Office announced that it opened a crime report in response to the complaint and that the threat is already being investigated by the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations."

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