Spanish chef Daniel Sancho remains in provisional prison on the Thai island of Samui, awaiting the trial for the murder of Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta. In the 43 days that the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo has been detained, there has been speculation about what his daily life was like there.
The TardeAR program has had access to this penitentiary center and has exclusively shown the images of Koh Samui. As has been seen, the prisoners are subjected to strict controls and the authorities carefully review the belongings of the inmates and every corner of all the cells.
The inmates are woken up by blowing a whistle at six in the morning and thirty minutes later they can leave their cells. The images from the program presented by Ana Rosa Quintana show that these are rooms in which more than 30 inmates can be concentrated. And no, they do not sleep in beds but on blue mats, which are checked daily by the prison authorities.
In addition, the door of each cell contains a sign with the photos and names of the prisoners to facilitate the counts that are done about four times a day. The first of them, between eight and eight thirty in the morning, once they have cleaned up and the national anthem has been played.
Koh Samui workers thoroughly search every corner of the prison, including the lockers of the 700 inmates, who are subject to drug screening. The objective of the searches is to locate prohibited objects and, if someone is punished, it is indicated next to the name and photograph of the cell in which they sleep and leave it chained.
The day ends at nine at night, when, after a final count, the inmates go to sleep and the prison lights go out.
Something that has caught the attention of the images released by TardeAR is the clothing of the prisoners. While most of them wear a uniform consisting of a light blue short-sleeved t-shirt and navy blue shorts, Daniel Sancho wears another uniform.
And he, like the other inmates who are in preventive detention, wears clothes of a different color: light brown short-sleeved T-shirt and dark brown shorts. In this way, Koh Samui officers visually distinguish the situation in which the different prisoners are found.
The area where Daniel Sancho meets his mother, Silvia Bronchalo, or where he met his father, Rodolfo Sancho, is one of those that has attracted the most media interest. This visiting room consists of a total of 20 cabins that are separated by glass and does not have any type of privacy, according to the images to which the program has had access.
