Doubts about Daniel Sancho’s prison stay in Thailand continue to be the order of the day. The police of the Asian country maintain a conflicting version with the one held by relatives and the lawyer of the Spanish cook, accused of murdering the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta a few weeks ago.
Big Joke, number two in the Thai police force, has appeared on several occasions before the Spanish media to clarify where Daniel would currently be and to deny that he is being held in the Koh Samui prison, as was initially believed. According to his version, released by the programs En boca de todos and Código 10, Sancho would sleep in another prison, Surat Thani, and would travel daily between it and Koh Samui.
The difference between the words attributed to the police officer and the version defended by Daniel Sancho’s entourage has sown the possibility of a translation error. A theory defended, even, by journalists such as Jorge Luque, from El programa del verano, who has not hesitated to describe it as an “absolute translation error”.
This idea has been denied this Wednesday by a Thai translator, who has gone to Así es la vida to reproduce the exact words of Big Joke to Code 10. “It says that Daniel Sancho is in the central prison of Surat Thani,” the interpreter clarified. to Sandra Barneda, and adds that she said it “without being wrong”.
“He insists that he is not in Koh Samui, but in Surat Thani prison,” the translator continues. Therefore, the translation made by the space presented by Nacho Abad and David Aleman in Cuatro is totally correct.
To endorse what Big Joke explained to Código 10, the Thai policeman made a sketch in which he exposes the supposed route that Daniel Sancho would be taking during his imprisonment in Thailand. “He says that Koh Samui is here, and that he had to go to Koh Phangan, and from there to Surat Thani; he is showing the place, nothing more,” explained the translator.
Asked about Surat Thani, the interpreter clarifies that Big Joke replied that it is “where Daniel Sancho sleeps, and he answers: ‘Daniel Sancho sleeps there, in Surat Thani, in this place'”, clearing up all doubts about the translation of your statements.
