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Catarina Martins on “Candid Camera” Tv show “What if it Happened to You?”

Left Bloc spokesperson stumbled upon a dating violence situation and decided to intervene.
Catarina Martins on Candid Camera.

A few months ago, as Catarina Martins was walking into Jardim da Estrela, in Lisbon, to shoot a political broadcast, she stumbled upon a young man abusing his girlfriend on a park bench. In full view of passers-by, he demands her mobile phone while punching the bench.

Catarina decides to intervene: “Do you want me to call for help? No need for help, the young man answers. you see, you saying that, when it’s you doing the abuse, makes it rather difficult for me to believe”, she argues.

Next, they share a few words, and as he does not let his girlfriend go, Catarina calls the police. It is then, as she wrote on her Facebook page, that she realises she was on What if it Happened to You, a “You’re On Candid Camera” type tv show.

“The show has been getting a lot of attention, and for the right reasons. Conceição Lino and her team are to be congratulated. And let me tell you they are quite good actors. Not for a moment did it cross my mind that it was a simulation”, she wrote on Facebook.

“So I was on candid camera for this show. The theme is dating violence. To be indifferent in not an option.

(The show has been getting a lot of attention, and for the right reasons. Conceição Lino and her team are to be congratulated. And let me tell you they are quite good actors. Not for a moment did it cross my mind that it was a simulation)."

Translated by Mariana Avelãs for Esquerda.net/English.

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