Anger over the kiss has snowballed into a “Me Too” moment building for years in a nation increasingly intolerant of macho attitudes and sexual misconduct.

Balado explained she was in the middle of a live broadcast and attempted to continue with her report but host Nacho Abad insisted that she put the man in front of the camera.

The man continued to linger in the street and approached her once more, saying he had heard her accusations and that she should “tell the truth.”

Police said in a message on X, formerly Twitter, that a man had been arrested for sexually assaulting a reporter live on air.

We fully support Isa Balado, reporter for ‘En boca de todos’, after the absolutely intolerable situation she has suffered today."

“It is machismo that makes journalists suffer sexual assaults like this, and the aggressors are unrepentant in front of the camera,” she wrote on X.

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