This Thursday, La Sexta premiered a special program, Patroling Christmas, with two experts in entering hostile places and experiencing complicated situations. With the help of reporter Jalis de la Serna and YouTuber Zazza the Italian, viewers were able to learn how these Christmas dates are lived in places where cameras usually do not reach. Sometimes, given its danger.
In fact, the Apatrullando la Navidad team became the indirect protagonists of their program when they suffered two incidents. On the one hand, the attack by an individual who assaulted them in a commercial area of La Jonquera and, on the other, the theft of technical equipment in La Línea de la Concepción.
The special program Patrolling Christmas was held this Christmas in different settings. The objective: to show its inhabitants, their traditions and customs at this time of year and show how the two reporters had to face situations as unexpected as they were dangerous.
One of the first incidents occurred during the recording of the report in La Jonquera. Jalis de la Serna traveled with a team from La Sexta to the border between Spain and France to learn about one of his biggest businesses: the sale of alcohol and tobacco cheaper than in the French country. However, his visit was not well received.
Some merchants decided to lower the shutters of their businesses when they saw the cameras. But there was one of them who did agree to speak with De la Serna. At one point, an individual interrupts the recording to hit the cameras, causing moments of tension. In fact, the reporter and his team were literally “pushed” out of the area.
It was not the only incident they experienced. This time it happened to the other side of the country, in La Línea de la Concepción, while they were recording with their neighbors how New Year's Eve was celebrated in the Atunara neighborhood.
When they finished and went to the car, they came across an unpleasant discovery: the car had been broken into and some of the technical equipment stolen. “A chore,” La Serna himself lamented after calling the National Police to report what had happened.
