Germany: Reporter caught on the spot smeared with mud to show he helped flood victims

For the past few hours in Germany, a reporter has been described as a “swindler” and a “bad example for all journalists” who was caught on the spot smearing her face and clothes with mud in an attempt to impress the viewers of her reportage.

The German reporter of the RTL network Susanna Olen found in the two states particularly hard hit by the killings floods, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, rushing to help restore an area. The German reporter took a shovel, put on wellies, a hat and special gloves and seemed to be involved in the efforts to rehabilitate the affected area.

Only the cell phone of a stranger betrayed her, as she caught the 39-year-old smearing her clothes with mud, in order to show that she is also assisting in the rehabilitation campaign of the affected city of Bad Munsterife. “Here is the busy worker telling you a story,” one Twitter user wrote, commenting on the report entitled “Cleaning after the floods,” which shows Susanna helping residents.

The German network fired the “liar” as soon as he saw the video in question, as the British newspaper “Daily Mail” writes. “Our journalist approach is contrary to our journalistic principles and standards. Therefore, we fired her on Monday after we saw it “, said the announcement for Olen, who has been working for the German network RTL since 2008.

For her part, the 39-year-old hastened to apologize via Instagram: “On Monday I was in an area that was flooded on behalf of the show” Guten Morgen, Deutschland “. I made a serious mistake… Having already helped the flood victims on my own, I was ashamed in front of the others that morning to stand in front of the camera and be clean from top to bottom. Then, without thinking twice, I soiled my clothes in mud. As a journalist, this should never have happened to me. As a person who cares about the suffering of all those affected, it happened to me. Sorry.”