Bodies Of Slain Journalists, Activist Arrive In Spain
3 Europeans were murdered in Burkina Faso while filming documentary on poaching.
The bodies of two Spanish journalists and an Irish environmental activist, who were killed in an ambush in Burkina Faso earlier this week, arrived in Madrid on Friday.
The Spanish journalists, Roberto Fraile, 47, and David Beriain, 44, were filming a documentary about poaching in Burkina Faso's national parks.
They were killed alongside Irish citizen Rory Young, the co-founder of an anti-poaching organization, and another man from Burkina Faso.
"David and Roberto did so much to give voice to the voiceless, shine a light on the tough realities that surround us but are often invisible, and with that, give our democracy the strength it needs," said Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, who took part in the official ceremony to receive the bodies at the airbase.