Daniel Sancho, the 29-year-old who has pleaded guilty to the murder and dismemberment of plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta, has been remanded in Koh Samui prison, in southern Thailand, until the trial is held.. He is currently isolated and will remain so for 10 days due to the Covid-19 protocol that the jail has.

During this time, it can only be visited by lawyers, according to sources close to the investigation.. Thus, Sancho's lawyer, Khun Anan, has assured this Tuesday that he is “relaxed” and that he “knows what he did”, so now he wants to “plan how to live in here”. But what will his day-to-day life be like in prison?

“The police treat me very well”

Telecinco's 'El Programa del Verano' managed to speak exclusively with Daniel Sancho this Monday before his entry into prison after the confession of the murder and dismemberment of Edwin Arrieta. “The police treat me very well and they tell me that it is because I have collaborated and I am behaving very well,” he said.

After completing the mandatory period of isolation, the 29-year-old chef will share a cell with approximately 20 other people, in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, as confirmed by several inmates who have served sentences in this prison.

“The cells are fucking irritating, 45 people who want to pee early in the morning, and some insist on taking a shower in the only bathroom in the cell. There are about 16 showers and 2 troughs, it's a bit crazy. You can go when everyone has eaten, but it is very likely that there will be no water left,” they say in statements collected by the Hablando Claro program on La 1 from the blog Koh Phangan Taless.

“The rice is disgusting looking and the broth smelly with some bones, just like dinner. Sometimes you can get a little lucky and get some chicken stuck to the bones.. It can take anywhere from 10 minutes to two hours in line to order your food. The inmates sleep directly on a blanket that is stretched out on the floor,” they add.

This is the day to day in this jail

Inmates get up around 6:00 a.m. and cells open at 6:30 a.m.. At 8:00 a.m., the Thai national anthem is sung, followed by Buddhist prayers, and a new count of prisoners takes place.. There is also another count at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. during the week.

The prison store has basic items such as soap or razors, and certain food products, although they are scarce. Breakfast consists of rice and broth, although some inmates ask for food outside. Most of the time is spent in an improvised area such as a gym or talking. At 4:00 p.m. they must return to the cells after dinner (if possible or if they have money).. “The lights never go out, sleep is a nightmare. Those who are in the upper part of the cell are lucky, only eight can go up there,” he says.

“Prisoners are not provided with bedding upon arrival and have to struggle to have some sort of means of relative comfort,” explains another former inmate.. “Crowded conditions were overwhelming. 40 of us were left fighting for a place to sit or sleep on the floor.”

On August 5, Daniel Sancho, son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, confessed to being the author of the murder and dismemberment of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, just two days after he himself had reported his disappearance.

After the young chef was remanded in Koh Phangan prison, the Bangkok Post newspaper has published new details about his statement to the Thai authorities. In it, he explained what kind of link he had with the surgeon and has also revealed the reasons why he decided to end his life.

As Sancho has acknowledged, he had been having sporadic sexual relations with Arrieta, whom he met on Instagram about a year ago.. He allegedly threatened to spread intimate photographs of both of them and that is why the Spaniard would have planned the murder during his vacation stay in Thailand.

As reported by the local media, Daniel Sancho went to the airport to pick up the Colombian and immediately went to a hotel room on Hat Salat beach. There, the chef would have tried to sleep with the surgeon and, when he refused, Sancho gave him a punch that caused Arreita to fall to the ground, accompanied by a blow to the head with the bathroom sink that caused her to lose weight. knowledge.

An hour later, seeing that the victim did not react, that was when Sancho decided to cut Arrieta into 14 pieces with the help of knives and a saw.. A job that, according to what he has told the authorities, took three hours to do.

After the murder, the young chef disposed of the surgeon's mortal remains by distributing them in garbage bags, part of which he took to a landfill and the other part he threw into the sea.. Finally, Sancho returned to the hotel to clean the room and at dawn he went to the police station to report the alleged disappearance of his friend.

A group of men dressed in black have vandalized the Vittorio Emmanuel Gallery, located in the central square of the Milan Cathedral (northern Italy), where, after climbing to the highest part of the monument, they spray-painted some inscriptions, causing the indignation of tourists and Milanese.

The men ascended to the place on the night of this Monday, and before the astonished gaze of the passers-by began to write inscriptions with colored spray bottles on the facade of the structure built in 1865, it can be seen in a video uploaded to the networks by the Vice President of the Government Matteo Salvini.

“Endless Shame. We will do everything possible so that the forces of order bring these thugs, who must be given a lesson for life, based on jail, fines and social services with the disabled and the elderly,” wrote the also Minister of Infrastructure.

“And if they are minors, let mom and dad pay, obviously a little distracted…”, he added.

The firefighters, together with the state police and the local police, intervened with a ladder to check the extent of the damage, and police investigations are already underway to identify the perpetrators -at least three- of the act of vandalism, according to the local media.

Before, the Colosseum

In the video of the events, which occurred around 10:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT), the vandals are seen defacing the monument before fleeing, and although the firefighters illuminated the gallery with photoelectric lights, no traces of the perpetrators were found.

This Tuesday, in daylight, the damage was visible from the square, since the inscriptions could be seen from below, which have caused enormous indignation among the Milanese and tourists, as well as among the city authorities and in social networks.

This act of vandalism occurs after several tourists wrote on the walls of the Colosseum last July, which generated widespread social condemnation, as well as from the Italian Government, while if the case were to go to court, it is estimated that the fine could amount to 19,000 euros or more.

The European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (Rasff) has issued a health alert collected by FACUA-Consumers in Action in which they report the detection of an excess of the pesticide known as 'Plonicamid' in watermelons coming from Spain. From FACUA they regret that “this organization does not offer information about the brand, the batch, or any other identifying data of the location of the place where these watermelons were grown.”

In this sense, the Dutch authorities have confirmed that the residue levels of this pesticide are 0.74 mg/kg-ppm, while the established maximum limit is 0.4 mg/kg-ppm.. For its part, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (Aesan), which reports to the Ministry of Consumption, has not notified the notice yet.

Lack of information on affected watermelons

The European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (Rasff) has classified the alert as a “serious” level. This pesticide belongs to the family of Pyridinecarboxamides and is used to control more than 40 different types of aphids on crops.

From FACUA they emphasize that the lack of information “makes it impossible for consumers to verify if they have bought or consumed any of the watermelons affected by this excess of pesticide”. For this reason, the organization considers it necessary that “European alerts include more extensive information in order to know at least the affected brand or batch.”

Daniel Sancho has gone from being a practically unknown character to becoming the talk of the media in just 24 hours. The young man, 29 years old and son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, confessed this Saturday to having killed and dismembered a friend in Thailand, where he was spending a few days on vacation.

The also grandson of Sancho Gracia and chef at the La Bohéme catering service in Madrid, entered the Koh Samui prison in southern Thailand on Monday, after a judge from the island's provincial court ordered provisional detention for the young man for the alleged murder of Colombian Edwin Arrieta.

Sancho will remain in this prison at least until the trial begins and will meet with his lawyer this Tuesday.. These are all the key dates of the terrible case according to the data of the case and the investigations of the Police:

Before July 31

Edwin Arrieta reserves a hotel in Koh Phangan for a stay between July 31 and August 3. The reservation is made for two guests in that room.

Monday July 31

Daniel Sancho arrives on Koh Phangan alone and checks into the hotel where a few days later he would share a room with his alleged victim, Edwin Arrieta, a 44-year-old Colombian surgeon.

Tuesday August 1.

Sancho buys a knife, gloves, a sponge, a cleaning pad, garbage bags, and cleaning products like bleach.. That same night, around 9:00 p.m., he goes to a store on a nearby beach to buy a kayak, where he offered up to 1,000 euros.

Wednesday August 2

Surgeon Edwin Arrieta, 44, arrives on the island. Sancho picks him up at the port and they go to dinner and then to the hotel.. They argue and Sancho kills the surgeon. Later, according to the Police, Sancho cut the corpse into 14 fragments that he divided into several bags: some he took to a landfill and others he tried to throw into the sea in the kayak he had bought the day before.

Thursday August 3

Sancho cleans the room and bathroom in detail and leaves the hotel. At night he attends a party with a woman. Simultaneously, Koh Phangan's Moo 4 district landfill workers find bags with remains of what appears to be a hip and pieces of intestines. The news jumps to the local media. That same night, Sancho denounces the disappearance of Arrieta, about whom he says he has not heard from the previous day.

Friday August 4

Thai police find Arrieta's legs and clothes in the same dump. Sancho is arrested and, at first, denies his involvement. However, it has some scratches and marks that make them suspicious.

Saturday August 5

The Thai Police interrogates Daniel Sancho for several hours. He assures that he did not feel comfortable “but neither was he forced” to confess. Finally, and after DNA tests were taken, he confesses to being the author of the events. “I am guilty, but I was Edwin's hostage. held me hostage. It was a glass cage, but it was a cage. It made me destroy the relationship with my girlfriend, it has forced me to do things that I would never have done,” he said in his statement at the police station before several policemen and already with his public defenders.. The news hits the international media.

Monday August 7

Rodolfo Sancho, father of the alleged murderer, issues a statement in which he asks for the “maximum respect” while the young man goes with the Thai Police to rebuild the crime. The Spaniard enters the Koh Samui prison, in southern Thailand, after a judge from the island's provincial court decreed provisional detention.

The Spanish Daniel Sancho (29), in prison after being arrested on Saturday on the Thai island of Koh Phangan on charges of premeditated murder, concealment and theft of parts of the body of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta (44), could be sentenced to a penalty ranging from 15-20 years in prison to the death penalty.

“The Thai penal code is especially severe with homicides,” Elena Regulez Morales, head of the criminal area of J. L. Casajuana, a law firm with extensive experience in international criminal law and extraditions.

Article 288 of the Thai code states that the penalties for homicide can range from 15 to 20 years in prison, and be raised if there are aggravating circumstances such as cruelty or cruelty.. In some cases, the legislation provides for life sentences or even the death penalty.

Sancho, son of actor Rodolfo Sancho, who has admitted to the Thai Police his participation in the murder and has stated that he is willing to cooperate in the case, entered prison on Monday.

According to Regulez, Sancho “will have to be tried in Thailand yes or yes and later, once there is a final conviction, which I predict will be appeals, diplomatic work will come into play so that he can fulfill the sentence in Spain.”. There is an agreement signed by Spain and the kingdom of Thailand on December 7, 1983 of an instruction “that allows the cooperation of both countries in terms of the execution of criminal sentences,” explains Regulez.

The criminal law expert believes that the objective that the defense team of the young Spaniard detained in Tailanida should set is to avoid a death sentence, which would make it impossible for him to return to Spain. He considers that the confession made by Sancho before a judge has started his prosecution could benefit him as a mitigation.

The background of Artur Segarra

Before Sancho another Spaniard, Artur Segarra, was sentenced to death in Thailand in 2019. In his case, which reached the country's Supreme Court, Segarra was found guilty of kidnapping, robbing and murdering another Spaniard, David Bernat, in Bangkok in 2016.

Segarra denied throughout the judicial proceedings his participation in the facts with which he was accused. The Thai high court accepted the images from the security cameras or the DNA evidence presented by the Police, among other evidence. “In the absence of eyewitnesses, the evidence presented is consistent to prove the guilt of the defendant. He premeditatedly committed the murder with the intent to steal the victim's money.”

According to the sentence, the victim was subjected to torture and humiliation, as well as deprivation of water and food for six days, to force him to give the passwords to his bank accounts.

A year later, in 2020, the King of Thailand commuted the death sentence to which the Spanish Artur Segarra was sentenced to another life sentence.. Segarra was one of the prisoners who benefited from the royal pardon on the occasion of the 68th birthday of the monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn.

To obtain clemency, Segarra, who is still imprisoned in Thailand without having been extradited to Spain for the moment, had to send a letter in which he acknowledged his guilt for the first time.

According to experts in international law, diplomatic action will also be of exceptional importance in the case that is now being opened against Daniel Sancho. “In addition to advising the family in the search for a good local defense team with the advice of Spanish lawyers, they must be aware that international legal guarantees are complied with throughout the process.. And, if in the worst case scenario he were sentenced to death, there would have to be a very important diplomatic intervention to try to commute it to life imprisonment, something that in Thailand is the prerogative of the king,” explains Elena Regulez.

The agreement for the prisoner convicted in Thailand to serve his sentence in Spain is not viable with the death penalty, but with a life sentence, explains the lawyer. “Because in Spain there is a reviewable life sentence. If Daniel Sancho came to Spain with a life sentence, his sentence could be reviewed, given that the agreement stipulates that after the transfer the sentence depends on the receiving state.”

“Without any doubt, Spanish prisons are better than Thai ones,” says Regulez, “in Thailand there is a very difficult survival environment, overcrowding problems, lack of hygiene, nutrition is not optimal and there is more violence between inmates” .

Tension remains in Niger after the coup military junta accused the Economic Community of West African States (Cedeao) of planning a war against the country, while the regional bloc convened a new meeting after the expiration of the ultimatum that gave to the coup leaders with the threat of military action.

This Monday, ECOWAS convened an extraordinary meeting on the 10th in Abuja (Nigeria) of the bloc's heads of state after the expiration last midnight of the ultimatum given to the Nigerian junta to restore constitutional order.

“The ECOWAS leaders will assess and discuss the political situation and recent developments in Niger,” the bloc said in a statement issued on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian junta yesterday reinforced the security and military device in the country and closed its airspace.

Closure of Niger airspace

Coinciding with the expiration last night of the ECOWAS ultimatum, the Nigerien junta – calling itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Fatherland (CNSP) – reacted to this warning with a new closure of the country's airspace.

The CNSP – which broadcast three statements last night on public television – warned that any violation of the measure to close the air border will have an “energetic” and “instantaneous” response..

The junta also accused ECOWAS of having completed “war planning” against their country and claimed that two central African countries, which it did not name, began a preventive deployment of their troops.

The junta indicated that it “is closely following the preparations for this proxy war” and also accused “a foreign power” -which it did not cite- of preparing “an aggression” against Niger in coordination with ECOWAS.

Sources close to the junta explained to EFE that the statement referred to France, the former colonial power of Niger that has important economic interests in the African country and maintains 1,500 French soldiers deployed in the framework of the agreements signed in the past with Niamey on the matter. of combating terrorism.

The coup leaders – who announced the dismissal of Niger's ambassadors to France, the United States, Nigeria and Togo – last week accused Paris of “wanting to intervene militarily” in the African country to free the deposed president, Mohamed Bazoum, who is He has been held in the Presidential Palace since July 26, the day the military coup was perpetrated.

After the coup leaders' announcements last night, the French airline Air France suspended flights to Niamey “until further notice” and canceled flights to Bamako (Mali) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) until the next 11th.

Popular support for the coup plotters

A source from the Presidency of the Nigerian junta told EFE that the coup leaders have no intention of resigning given the great popular support for their action.

In fact, traditional chiefs, religious leaders, union and NGO representatives as well as university student groups expressed their support for the junta.

In addition, in recent days different pro-coup demonstrations have taken place in Niamey and in other locations in the country; the last one was organized yesterday, Sunday, in the Seyni Kountche stadium in the Nigerien capital where supporters of the junta filled the 30,000 seats of the establishment while they greeted with triumphant cheers some members of the junta who were present in the place.

The protesters, who shouted slogans against France and ECOWAS, warned that they are ready to fight and sacrifice themselves in the face of any foreign military attack against their country..

Faced with the distance from France, the coup junta consolidates its rapprochement with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali, close to Russia and governed by military juntas, which expressed their opposition to the use of force and threatened that any intervention in Niger would amount to a declaration of war against them too.

This Monday, a mixed delegation from Mali and Burkina Faso arrived in Niamey to express the solidarity of the two neighboring countries with the Nigerien junta.

In reaction to his rapprochement with the coup leaders in Niger, France suspended all of its economic aid to Burkina Faso.

Bulgarian MP Vezhdi Rashidov resigned today from his position as chairman of Parliament's Culture Committee after calling women “whores” during an urgently called parliamentary debate to increase penalties for sexist assaults.

“All the whores woke up to remember after 15 years that they were raped, like that American director who was driven crazy like that,” Rashidov said during a break in the session without realizing his microphone was open, in an apparent reference to Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer whose sexual abuse sparked the Me Too protest movement, and who was convicted in the US. UU. to 36 years in prison.

Rashidov is the oldest deputy in Parliament, was Minister of Culture twice, (2009-2013 and 2014-2017), has been elected deputy seven times and is a well-known sculptor. His party, the populist GERB, demanded that he apologize and resign as chairman of the Culture Commission, although Rashidov will continue to hold his seat.

The recent case that opened the debate

The Bulgarian Parliament today interrupted its summer break to urgently debate changes to the Penal Code after a man accused of brutally assaulting his ex-girlfriend was released after the judge considered that the victim's life was not in danger and that injuries were minor.

The attacker caused his 18-year-old victim 21 deep cuts with a scalpel to her breasts and other parts of her body, as well as fractures to her nose and jaw, in an attack that left her with a concussion and bruises.

His release sparked strong protests in Sofia and other Bulgarian cities last Monday, uncovering a crisis of sexist violence in the poorest country in the European Union (EU), one of the six of this group that has not yet ratified the Convention of Istanbul, an international treaty against violence against women and girls.

Sexist violence, in figures

According to a document from the Bulgarian Ministry of Social Policy, not yet published and to which EFE had access, in 2022 there were 736 identified cases of domestic violence.. A vast majority of these cases -542- were assaults against children, while the victims were women 188 times, 10 were people with disabilities and 6 were adult men.

However, it is estimated that the figures are much higher, as Bulgaria lacks official statistics on the number of complaints filed for sexist or domestic violence.

A forest fire that has affected the Portuguese municipality of Odemira, in the south of Portugal, since Saturday, has so far left 1,400 evacuees preventively and 22 people assisted, although none in a serious condition, while the means of combat prepare to a difficult night

“We are going to have another night of a lot of work on the different active fronts,” said the commander of Civil Protection José Ribeiro at a press conference at the end of the afternoon of this Monday, when more than 800 firefighters, supported by 266 vehicles and 10 aerial means, fought the flames in the area.

An “absolutely exceptional” situation

Ribeiro, who described the situation as “absolutely exceptional”, explained that more than 1,400 people and 125 animals were evacuated in a preventive manner and that the municipalities of the area have already activated the necessary means to accommodate the evicted. In addition, 22 people were assisted for medical emergencies, of which four, three firefighters and one civilian, were referred to the hospital, although without “seriousness.”

“Throughout the day we had a very unfavorable meteorological picture that provided very difficult conditions for combat,” said Ribeiro, who said that the area where the troops are currently working occupies 6,700 hectares. Civil Protection hopes that during the night, when a higher relative humidity is expected, the extinction work can advance.

Two more fires ravage Portugal

The Odemira fire is not the only fire of concern in Portugal, which is currently experiencing the worst wave of forest fires this summer. Two other fires in the Leiria district, some 130 kilometers north of Lisbon, remain active with almost 400 troops mobilized in total. Another fire that worried the authorities, that of Ourém, 140 kilometers north of Lisbon, was declared under control at the end of the afternoon.

So far this year, 19,126 hectares have burned in forest fires and in rural areas in Portugal, with a total of 5,599 fires, according to data released this Monday by the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF).

At least six people have died in Slovenia due to the rainy storm that is also hitting other central European countries such as Austria and Croatia and that has resulted in heavy flooding and hundreds of landslides, according to the authorities, who are trying to take stock and prepare for future havoc. The rains have caused several rivers to overflow and have left at least six dead, including two Dutchmen who were struck by lightning during an excursion.

The Slovenian government already considers the current situation as the worst natural disaster since the secession of the Soviet Union, with estimated damages of more than 500 million euros.. “In these difficult times, Slovenia is not alone”, celebrated Prime Minister Robert Golob, thanking “friends” who have provided help.

Request for technical assistance to the EU and NATO

Several EU Member States, including France and Germany, have sent machinery to alleviate the consequences of landslides caused by floods. Specifically, France has mobilized two excavators with engineering units, and Germany will send two precast bridges, two excavators and the corresponding personnel.

The EU has also activated the Copernicus satellite observation system, which has so far produced several maps of the affected areas. This Sunday the Government of Slovenia formally requested technical assistance from the EU and NATO after verifying enormous damage to roads, railways, bridges, sewage systems and buildings.

Austria and Croatia on alert

In southern Austria, special vigilance was also maintained this Monday for possible landslides in the southern area, while the water level has risen and threatens to flood some areas of neighboring Croatia, where the state has already been declared. emergency and authorities and neighbors strive to prepare for possible floods. Despite this widespread alert throughout the region, meteorologists expect the situation to improve and the level of the rivers to gradually drop.