{"id":37181,"date":"2025-08-01T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37181\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:05:10","slug":"get-up-or-ill-get-you-up-man-slaps-woman-in-violent-airport-outburst-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37181\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Get up or I\u2019ll get you up\u2019: Man slaps woman in violent airport outburst, Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travellers at a Colombian airport were left stunned after a man allegedly struck a woman across the face with his phone in a shocking outburst over a vacant seat.<\/p>\n

The incident, which unfolded at Bogot\u00e1\u2019s El Dorado International Airport on Sunday, was captured on video and has since prompted a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The victim, human rights lawyer Claudia Segura, was working on her laptop in the terminal when she was approached by H\u00e9ctor Santacruz, who reportedly demanded she vacate her chair so he could sit next to his wife.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGet up or I\u2019ll get you up,\u201d Mr Santacruz allegedly told Ms Segura, before suddenly lashing out and hitting her in the face with his phone, according to footage shared online.<\/p>\n

Panicked travellers rushed to her defence as one man physically separated Mr Santacruz from the woman. Others could be heard shouting at the aggressor, while his wife, Karen de Santacruz, began gathering their belongings.<\/p>\n

Moments later, Mr Santacruz was placed in handcuffs and escorted from the terminal by airport police.<\/p>\n

A second video shows Ms Segura lying on her back, receiving medical assistance for what her lawyer described as soft tissue trauma.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther factors have been diagnosed, for which appointments have been scheduled with specialists,\u201d her lawyer Mait\u00e9 Bayona said.<\/p>\n

She added Ms Segura may also need psychological support \u201cbecause she is very upset as a result of this attack and the violation of her rights that she experienced last Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

A formal criminal complaint has now been lodged.<\/p>\n

Ms Segura, who works for Bogot\u00e1 City Hall, later expressed anger over how airport staff handled the ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got to the waiting area, everything was completely full, and I only saw one empty chair,\u201d News.com.au<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have any bags or clothes on me to indicate it was occupied, so I sat down.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said a woman then approached her to say the seat was taken \u2014 a claim Ms Segura disputed. After finishing a work call, she said Mr Santacruz walked over and began threatening her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hits me on the hand, knocks off my phone, and hits me hard in the face and head,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe magnitude of the impact knocked my earring off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Segura was taken for medical evaluation at a nearby urgent care centre in Engativ\u00e1 \u2014 in the same vehicle as the man accused of attacking her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am affected and very afraid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In the days since the incident, Mr Santacruz\u2019s wife Karen, has publicly condemned her husband\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe person shown physically assaulting a woman is my husband. And you don\u2019t know how much it hurts me to say this out loud,\u201d she said in a video posted to social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it really hurts me as a woman, as a mother, as the founder of Khala, because all of this goes against what we want, what we\u2019ve been working on for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ManMan slaps woman in an airport and his wife responds online. Credit: The Nightly<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that when things like this happen, it\u2019s easy to point fingers, judge, and dismiss. But I also know that many of us have made mistakes at some point in our lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as the old saying goes, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. This doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s right, because it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI reject it from the bottom of my heart because I believe in dignity, in boundaries, and in respect,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Shortly after sharing the statement, she deactivated her Instagram account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travellers at a Colombian airport were left stunned after a man allegedly struck a woman across the face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-37181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}