Roberto Fraile
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Roberto Fraile Fernández (1974 – 26 April 2021) was a Spanish journalist and cameraman.
Biography
[edit]Born in Barakaldo, he lived and worked in various media in Salamanca. He was a cameraman for Salamanca television since the 1990s and for some years he was also at La 8 de Salamanca.[1] During a good part of his career he was linked to Radio Televisión Castilla y León.[2]
He combined this work with filming armed conflicts. In 2012 he was injured by an explosion in Aleppo, where he was filming insurgent troops in the context of the Syrian civil war and was operated on in a hospital and evacuated to Turkey.[3] During the last years of his life he made documentaries in Colombia and Brazil.
Murder
[edit]On 26 April 2021, Fraile was killed at the age of 46, alongside fellow Spanish journalist David Beriáin and Irish conservationist Rory Young, while they were filming a documentary about poaching in Pama, Burkina Faso. Their convoy was ambushed by Nusrat al-Islam, which then opened fire against them.[4][5] He had two sons.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Asesinado el periodista salmantino Roberto Fraile en Burkina Faso". La Gaceta Regional de Salamanca (in Spanish). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "Quién era Roberto Fraile, uno de los periodistas asesinados en Burkina Faso". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ Goyoaga, Ander (27 April 2021). "Roberto Fraile, el cámara asesinado en Burkina Faso que cubrió conflictos armados en medio mundo". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "Asesinados los periodistas españoles David Beriáin y Roberto Fraile en un ataque en Burkina Faso". El Diario. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ Hayden, Sally (27 April 2021). "Irish wildlife activist killed in Burkina Faso with two journalists". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
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