Mother-of-one is killed after she refuses TV proposal from abusive ex-boyfriend

 

Last updated at 16:39pm on 26th November 2007 Comments (3)

Angry viewers are demanding a Spanish chat show is scrapped after a man stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death just days after she refused a marriage proposal broadcast on the programme.

Svetlana Orlava had no idea why she had been invited on Patricia's Daily Show, but was appalled when confronted by an ex boyfriend who had beaten her for years. Ms Orlava even had a court order requiring Ricardo Navarro, 30, to keep at least 500 metres away from her.

But during the programme he came within inches of her.

"I want you to marry me. You're everything for me. Everything, everything," said Ricardo, getting to his knees and bringing out a ring as Svetlana watched uncomfortably.

Presenter Patricia Gaztanaga had to push the Russian mother-of-one to respond.

"Come on Svetlana, say something, we're all here waiting," said Gaztanaga, before the woman produced the answer that Ricardo was apparently unable to accept: "No."

Five days later Mr Navarro was arrested after allegedly stabbing Ms Orlova repeatedly in the neck. She died in hospital, leaving behind a two-year-old son.

Watch the TV footage here...

 

Women's groups were up in arms over the case: "You can't mislead a woman into meeting her abuser, because of the consequences which we now know of," said Ana Maria Perez del Campo, from the Federation of Separated and Divorced Women.

The Association of Television Viewers in the eastern region of Catalonia demanded that television station Antena 3 drop its popular "Patricia's Diary" show, which attracts more than two million viewers a day.

"People who make television should learn not to manipulate human emotions in order to get audience share," said the association's president Josep Ma Guerra i Mercadal.

With a constant parade of weeping, quarrelling guests, Patricia's Diary specializes in getting ordinary people to reveal their most intimate problems and confront errant loved ones in front of an afternoon television audience.

A spokesman for Antena 3 said the station had done all it could to determine whether any of its guests were dangerous.

"Antena 3 utterly condemns this killing," he said, without making further comment.

The death of Svetlana is not the first incident of violence between people whose emotional conflicts have been broadcast on television.

In one famous case, a U.S. man shot and killed a friend who had revealed he was homosexually attracted to him on The Jenny Jones Show in 1995.

mm i never liked this programme...

 

as i know two of their guest has been arrested after had gone there.. (one was a latin king leader... and the other a women that lives like a wild, didn't took to school their kids and was proud of it).

 

The death of Svetlana is not the first incident of violence between people whose emotional conflicts have been broadcast on television.

that's true :( a women was bonfired by her ex-husband, after she went to another talk show.

 

a part of that, this programme give very bad examples to kids and teens, there appear many bizarre people in general... :confused: i wonder how it hasn't been closed before.

 

poor svetlana :cry:

I'm surprised the "completely pointless" police haven't visited this thread yet.

Well there's still time, I suppose.............................. :rolleyes:

That's so sad. :cry: I wonder how a restraining order wouldn't show up in a background check like that. Goes to show how much can really be hiding beneath the surface. I hope the kid is as ok as he can be.

 

 

I'm surprised the "completely pointless" police haven't visited this thread yet.

Well there's still time, I suppose.............................. :rolleyes:

 

 

That's not pointless- not at all. It's an important reminder about appearances, and how things are never really how they seem. It says something really meaningful about our culture.

 

Statistics- telling someone they spend 3 years of their life getting ready, for instance- things they don't connect to and don't really want to think about. That's going to be annoying. Especially when it's written so condescendingly. But something so human, and so tragic, and so important to remember- that's worth a couple of minutes to read.

That's not pointless- not at all. It's an important reminder about appearances, and how things are never really how they seem. It says something really meaningful about our culture.

 

Statistics- telling someone they spend 3 years of their life getting ready, for instance- things they don't connect to and don't really want to think about. That's going to be annoying. Especially when it's written so condescendingly. But something so human, and so tragic, and so important to remember- that's worth a couple of minutes to read.

 

Hit the nail square on the head.

That's so sad. :cry: I wonder how a restraining order wouldn't show up in a background check like that. Goes to show how much can really be hiding beneath the surface. I hope the kid is as ok as he can be.

 

 

 

 

 

That's not pointless- not at all. It's an important reminder about appearances, and how things are never really how they seem. It says something really meaningful about our culture.

 

Statistics- telling someone they spend 3 years of their life getting ready, for instance- things they don't connect to and don't really want to think about. That's going to be annoying. Especially when it's written so condescendingly. But something so human, and so tragic, and so important to remember- that's worth a couple of minutes to read.

 

Aha - but that's only in your opinion.;)

To others, it might seem completely pointless.:rolleyes: