2023-11-09 21:44:11
Madrid 11/09/2023 at 22:18 CET
Arilla was among the men who had to entertain the soldiers so that the National Radio technicians might activate a microphone with which sound might be obtained for twenty hours.
He Navarrese Jesús Arilla Pérezthe man who guarded and hid from the military who broke into the RTVE studios the only tape with the entire recording of the 23F assault on the Congress of Deputies, He has died at the age of 81his family informed EFE this Thursday.
Former deputy of the Democratic and Social Center (CDS), precursor of the creation of Telemadrid, former president of the Board of Directors of Radiotelevisión Madrid and former director of Relations with the Autonomous Communities of RTVE, Arilla became “anonymous protagonist” of the Transition by managing to save the tape of the forty soldiers who entered the Prado del Rey studios (Madrid) of RTVE.
In a statement sent to EFE, his family narrates that the captain of the platoon that entered the studios sat for more than an hour on the tape with the historic 47 minutes of recording of the 23F assault on the Congress of Deputies, made from the studios. and until the military led by Antonio Tejero broke the cameras.
RTVE workers, among whom was Arilla, had to entertain the soldiers so that the National Radio technicians might activate a microphone with which sound might be obtained for twenty hours, to the point that one of the soldiers even had a coffee offered by Arilla.
The former Navarrese politician He settled very young in Madrid. As director of Relations with the Autonomous Communities of RTVE, he managed the opening of a large part of the territorial centers and radio stations to complete the regional coverage.
At that time, Arilla “destined” to convey the wish of the former director of RTVE, Fernando Castedo, that Spanish Television be “for all Spaniards from all over Spain,” his family recalls.
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