Toni Espadas, director of the Sabadell Rift-Valley travel agency in the Vallesan city, was murdered in Ethiopia this Monday in an attack that is still being investigated. The Department of Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat has received confirmation of the event from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Spanish government and now both administrations are trying to clarify the details of the tragic news, according to the Agència Catalana de Noticies (ACN).
Espadas, was a Catalan tour guide and photographer specialized in Africa, he was acting as a guide for the filming crew of the program Socios por el Mundo on the historic Chilean Channel 13, at the time of the assault.
As reported by the channel itself through a statement, the rest of the production company MkZeta’s team is fine and are traveling to Johannesburg to return to Chile on Tuesday morning. In turn, they indicate that they have not received the attack from the tribe they were visiting without specifying their name and the exact place of the assault.
In the statement they report that the attack “occurred once they were leaving the area”, after having finished the day, “two armed young men crossed in front of the truck and when avoiding them, they shot towards the cabin and hit him. to Tony. The others were miraculously saved. “Everything happened in a matter of seconds and they managed to flee to a safe place,” they detail in the note.
From the Chilean media they have expressed their condolences to the family of Toni Espadas, who was known for his specialization in Africa and his work as director of Rift Valley since 2011.
“As Channel 13 we deeply regret Toni’s death, and from a distance, we send his family all our support,” the note reads.
Espadas had visited dozens of African countries, portraying and documenting the lives of many of their people.
The mayor of Sabadell, Marta Farrés, published a message this Monday night on the social network
