The TVE News Council investigates whether there was 'malpractice' in the images of Álvaro Prieto in 'Mañaneros'

The TVE News Council announced this Tuesday the opening of an investigation to try to clarify whether there was 'malpractice' in the images broadcast live on the program 'Mañaneros' on TVE's La 1, within the framework of the investigation into the disappearance of the young man from Córdoba Álvaro Prieto.

In a statement, the internal body of the public corporation's workers has explained the decision to initiate the investigation “given the seriousness of what happened”, pointing out at the same time that it will be analyzed whether in the preparation and broadcast of this information in the morning of La 1 failed to comply with the deontological principles included in the Information Statute and in the RTVE style manual.

“We consider that these images should never have been broadcast,” said the News Council, which has rejected the live broadcast of the images of the young man from Córdoba.. “We greatly regret the pain caused to his family and friends, and also for the impact caused on viewers by such harsh images,” the statement added.

RTVE “deeply regretted” the images broadcast live this Monday on 'Mañaneros'. “Images that should never have been broadcast,” the public corporation said in a statement, in which it highlighted that the program, after apologizing live, has already made all the audiovisual material in its possession available to the Police and has ordered the immediate withdrawal of its digital broadcast. Likewise, RTVE has reported that it has opened an internal investigation.

The presenter of 'Mañaneros' on Spanish Television (TVE), Jaime Cantizano, also apologized for the live broadcast of the images of the corpse. “At this point in our program, before continuing, on behalf of this group we want to apologize,” he said during the broadcast of La 1's morning program.