Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Spain, “in full swing” to find the missing journalists in Syria – swissinfo.ch/spa

Spain is working “in full swing” to find the three Spanish journalists missing since July 12 in the area of ​​Aleppo in northwestern Syria, said Wednesday Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo.

“We are, since we know the news in full swing,” Garcia-Margallo said, adding that his ministry is in constant contact with its embassy in Turkey, responsible for operations in Syria, other allied embassies in the area, the United Nations and effective Spanish intelligence service (CNI) in Syria.

Authorities said Tuesday they have no news of these three journalists from 12 July, when they were . in Aleppo, one of the cities hardest hit by the deadly civil war broke out in that country in 2011

The missing are the reporter Antonio Pampliega, born in 1982; photojournalist José Manuel López, born in 1971, and audiovisual journalist Angel Sastre, 35. Among the three they had recently worked for Spanish as ABC and La Razón newspaper, television Four and radio Onda Cero media.

Right now, you avoid talking about kidnapping, according to an official source invites keep a “great caution”.

“The ministry is in constant contact with the embassy in Turkey, which is being carried operations,” the foreign minister.

“There are people CNI is in Syria and is helping us,” he said, adding that his ministry is also working with embassies of friendly countries and the Special Envoy of the United Nations in Spain.

Spain lived in 2013 and the disappearance of three journalists in the country, considered the most dangerous for journalists, according to Reporters Without Borders. They were kidnapped by the group Islamic State (EI) and released in March 2014.

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