(6 May 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ensenada, Mexico – 5 May 2024
1. Parents of killed surfers leaving morgue after identifying their sons
2. Various of convoy with parents of killed surfers accompanied by consular personnel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santo Tomás, Mexico – 3 May 2024
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3. Aerial of area where bodies of surfers were found
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tijuana, Mexico – 5 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Elena Andrade Ramírez, Chief Baja California Prosecutor:
"Seeing that what was originally a robbery that got out of control, they tried to get rid of the corpses by throwing them into this well at a distance of between 6 and 7 kilometers from the site of the first find. This is what happened. It wasn’t an attack because they were tourists, it was with the intent to steal a vehicle."
5. Mid of journalists
6. Close of Prosecutor’s office logos
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Elena Andrade Ramírez, Chief Baja California Prosecutor:
"And subsequently three people were secured or brought in to investigate in order to provide information related to the investigation. Two of them are already in custody for possession of methamphetamine, one male and one female."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ensenada, Mexico – 5 May 2024
8. Various of surfer Paulina Rodriguez talking with colleague
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Paulina Rodriguez, Mexican Surfer:
"Usually, it’s us – women – the ones who are afraid, right? And now it happened to these three young men. So I feel more vulnerable, I feel that we are all more vulnerable now. I feel powerless, very angry. More than anything else, the impunity that exists in this country is what bothers me most."
10. Wide of people watching surfer’s ceremony
11. Circle of surfers on the water paddling on their boards
12. Mid of people watching surfer’s ceremony
13. Surfers on the water throwing water and flowers towards center of circle
STORYLINE:
Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday.
Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the bodies recovered from a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep and recognized them as their loved ones.
Thieves apparently killed the three, who were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Baja peninsula, to steal their truck because they wanted the tires.
They then allegedly got rid of the bodies by dumping them in a well near the coast.
The well was located some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed, and also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.
The three men were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada, posting idyllic photos on social media of waves and isolated beaches, before they went missing last weekend.
Three suspects are being held in connection with the case, which locals said was solved far more quickly than the disappearances of thousands of Mexicans.
Dozens of surfers later performed a “paddle-out” ceremony where they formed a circle on their boards in the ocean.
Paulina Rodriguez, a 41- year-old surfer, attended the ceremony.
She said that usually it’s “women the ones who are afraid,” but this time it happened to three young men.
Baja California prosecutors had said they were questioning three people in the killings, two of them because they were caught with methamphetamines.
Prosecutors said the two were being held pending drug charges but continue to be suspects in the killings.
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