A man has been arrested for groping a Spanish journalist’s butt on live television, despite being filmed and the assailant denying he did anything.

Spanish authorities have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of sexually harassing a channel journalist. Fourin the center of Madrid, this Tuesday.

Isa Balado was on live television when the detainee groped her and asked: “Which channel are you from?” The Spaniard continued the broadcast, but was interrupted by a turn in the studio.

“Did he just touch your ass?” – asked the journalist, to which Isa Balado, in a state of shock, answered in the affirmative. The reporter then approached the attacker, a Romanian citizen, and reprimanded him for his action.

“As much as you want to ask me what channel I’m from, do you really need to touch my ass? I’m alive and working,” he explained. The man denied touching the woman, which the images refute. “Yes, you touched me, I wish you would let me do my job,” she replied.

Returning to the air, the journalist added that the man continued to do the same to other women on the street. Employees of the Spanish National Police arrived at the scene, where they detained the attacker, who had no criminal record.