Santiago Sanchez Cogedor’s mom states the Spanish foreign ministry validated her child was being kept in Iran and remained in health.
Published On 28 Oct 2022
A Spanish football fan who set out to stroll to Qatar to enjoy the World Cup has actually been apprehended in Iran, his mom states after he left of contact for numerous weeks.
Santiago Sanchez Cogedor left his home town near Madrid in January, intending to make the impressive journey in time for the competitors, which starts on November 20.
But his household had actually not spoken with him for nearly a month.
” The [Spanish] foreign ministry validated he was being kept in Iran which his state of health was excellent,” Cecelia Cogedor informed Spanish television channel Trece late on Thursday.
” He’s not politically included. He does not come from any political celebration,” his dad, Santiago Sanchez, stated throughout an interview.
” He’s not been making propaganda neither for nor versus any scenario. The only thing that moves him is supporting Real Madrid,” his dad stated.
The Spanish ambassador to Iran is asking the Iranian authorities to check out Sanchez Cegedor, his mom stated without stating what he is implicated of or where he is being held.
There has actually been no main remark from Iranian authorities.
Sanchez Cogedor had actually been recording his journey on Instagram, and in his last post on October 1, he stated he will go into Iran from a northern Iraqi town.
He then informed his moms and dads in a voice message that he was going to Tehran prior to heading to the port of Bandar Abbas to take a boat to Qatar.
” If you do not set a date for your dreams, you do not understand them,” Sanchez Cogedor had actually stated in among his posts tape-recording his journey. “You need to state on this day I go and on this day I left.”
Iran has actually been grasped by 6 weeks of demonstrations and a fatal crackdown by security forces after the death of 22- year-old Mahsa Amini in custody.
She had actually been apprehended by the morality authorities for apparently breaching Iran’s gown code for ladies.
Tehran has actually implicated the United States and other Western nations of lagging the presentations.
Last month, Iranian authorities revealed the arrest of 9 immigrants from Poland, Italy and France, apparently in connection with the demonstration motion.
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