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The Predator of Seville Season 1 Episode 1
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00:09En los Estados Unidos, no es la cultura de ir a bordo, de estudiar.
00:16Pero mi mamá dijo, oh, puedes ir a España.
00:24Y yo era un 18 años, ¿sabes?
00:27Y yo era un 18 años, ¿no?
00:27Y era un 20 años.
00:31No sé exactamente cuando las cosas se...
00:35...f***ing bad.
00:42Cuando me fui a España,
00:44yo era la más joven en mi programa.
00:48American college students
00:51que estaban estudiando en España.
00:54I studied abroad in Sevilla.
00:56Sevilla.
00:59After I got to Spain,
01:01we're saying, oh, let's go on a trip.
01:04Discover Excursions was recommended.
01:07We were adults for the first time.
01:10Cuando yo miro las fotos de esa época,
01:12todas nosotras éramos muy vulnerables.
01:19And something really bad happened,
01:20and I don't have the language for it.
01:23She called me hysterical, crying.
01:25Like, what the hell happened?
01:27Nunca habría imaginado lo que realmente estaba pasando.
01:30Was happening for years.
01:35I think it was like 50 people towards the end.
01:40I was like, wow, this is wild.
01:45You feel like you were in the room with the devil.
02:01My name's Gabrielle Vaca.
02:03I am 30 years old.
02:09I'm the oldest of three girls.
02:15I grew up in a normal suburb in the U.S.
02:20We got bicycles, and we were always outside,
02:23and it was just like a sweet childhood.
02:28My father is a first-generation American.
02:32My mom's from New Jersey.
02:35My family has no Spanish roots,
02:38but my husband's side has deep roots in Spain.
02:43His grandparents were from Asturias.
02:48My parents really loved the idea of me going back to Spain
02:52and reconnecting with the origin story of the family.
02:57I remember the night before,
02:59I was packing my bag, and I was by myself,
03:02and I was getting really sentimental,
03:06and I had started writing letters.
03:10I think that's the only letter she's maybe ever written to me.
03:14It was meaningful.
03:17We knew she was excited, and she really wasn't afraid,
03:20and so it was, you know, it was a happy thing for us to send her off.
03:25I think my dad, I don't want to say regrets,
03:29but wishes that he taught me, like, taught us Spanish when we were younger.
03:34He was looking at, like, where could I learn the purest form of Spanish,
03:39and so he was like, oh, it's in Salamanca.
03:42So that's kind of why I decided to go there.
04:03I don't know, I just felt like the world kind of just opened up,
04:07and I was just going to do whatever I could.
04:16I knew nothing about Salamanca.
04:23It's really, really beautiful, and, you know, you learn the little things about,
04:29you know, you meet under the clock when you're going to go meet your friends in the plaza,
04:32and that's where you go to meet, and then you just set the time, get there, whatever.
04:36I didn't know how to drink. I didn't know how to behave.
04:41I was on my own for the first time. I didn't speak the language.
04:45It was so new, but I remember living there and feeling like it was, like, the first time I saw
04:51color in my life.
04:52So I really loved it and tried to immerse myself as much as I could.
05:07I was with kids who were probably, like, 21, 22, 23.
05:16You know, we were thinking about all the trips because, you know, Europe is, like, packed,
05:20and so I was like, oh, I could go to France, or what if I went to Morocco and go
05:24to Africa?
05:24And we're like, well, Africa, I don't know, like, but you could go.
05:28Like, that would be great.
05:28And so I had always known that that was one of the trips that I really wanted to take
05:32just because it was so foreign.
05:36Discover Excursions was known, like, across our group.
05:42I knew they went to Morocco, and it just seemed like tons of kids had done it.
05:50Are you looking for a fun and easy way to travel to Morocco?
05:55Come with Discover Excursions on a safe and eye-opening trip.
06:01Ride on a camel.
06:03Try delicious food and enjoy sun-filled days in miles of endless desert.
06:10Trust us.
06:11You'll be surprised by what you'll experience in Africa.
06:16Do more than travel.
06:18Discover.
06:21Basically, we were just, like, the market for it, for that company.
06:24You know, it was like, oh, well, you want to go to Morocco?
06:26This is the company.
06:27You know, they had all the marketing.
06:28They had pictures of all of us, like, little American kids going.
06:33Yeah, I mean, it was a, like, Discover Excursions was, like, a legit business.
06:38Welcome.
06:39We're open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
06:41No CSs for us.
06:43Yeah, it was very professional.
06:46It was pretty affordable.
06:47But it was also very much, like, this kind of, like, fun, sort of, like, young environment.
06:54It was young tour guides.
06:57And kids from my program, we all kind of decided to go together.
07:03They had organized the trip.
07:04The days were planned.
07:05You had, like, an itinerary.
07:06And it was, like, I think it was, like, a group of 200.
07:09Like, it was a huge group of kids that went, I think it was, like, two buses or something.
07:14It was a lot of us.
07:21I remember telling us that she was going to go to Morocco.
07:24So, and we were like, oh, this is great.
07:26And I know she was excited.
07:31We basically went to Morocco, and we went around, like, the northern part of the country.
07:39Wow.
07:51I remember being, like, really impressed at how beautiful it was.
07:54There were these mountains that were really incredible.
07:58The architecture being extremely different.
08:03The main tour guide, my impression, was Manuel.
08:08I remember Manuel talking to all of us on the bus.
08:13Like, standing up in the front of the bus and talking about how we're going to have a great time.
08:16And we're going to do X, Y, and Z.
08:20He seemed friendly and warm and kind of just, like, an excitable person.
08:25Probably in the early 30s, late 20s.
08:28He seemed like a nice guy who was going to show us around and was really excited we were there.
08:37We went to the Blue City and went to the markets that were really, really incredible.
08:44I remember being, like, almost, like, overcome by, like, the aggression of these salesmen.
08:53I was with my friends and we were kind of just excited by the whole thing because it was, like,
08:57we were in this different world.
08:59And they spoke, like, every language.
09:01They spoke French, English, Spanish.
09:03It was, like, it was overwhelming.
09:05Like, the smells were overwhelming.
09:07And not in a bad way.
09:08It was just, like, it was like I was in this really new place.
09:17I think it was Saturday.
09:20And that was the last night of the trip.
09:22Hello, little kitty.
09:24It's so pretty.
09:25They wanted us to feel comfortable the whole time we were there.
09:29You know?
09:29And they emphasized safety.
09:32Morocco's not super safe.
09:34Like, you guys should stay inside.
09:36Like, there's a bar at the hotel on, like, the, I think it was, like, the top floor of the
09:41hotel.
09:41And, um, you know, we can go up there if you guys want a drink.
09:44But it's best if you guys don't go outside because at night here it can be kind of sketchy.
09:48And there's a big group of us.
09:49So we were all encouraged to stay in the hotel that night.
09:55And we went to the bar, me, Ashley, and Nicole.
09:59And we were staying in a room together, the three of us.
10:03I had met them through my program.
10:05I remember I smoked a cigarette with my friends.
10:08Um, and Manuel popped up.
10:17And he was like, oh, well, like, were you guys getting another drink?
10:20And we were like, yeah, we were gonna.
10:21And he, um, came up with this idea where he was like, oh, well, I can get champagne.
10:25And we can all hang out in the room and, like, whatever.
10:28And, like, I'll get it.
10:29Like, don't even worry about it sort of thing.
10:31And you're like, I mean, sure.
10:33I didn't even think about it.
10:35I was like, okay, that sounds good.
10:37And, um, we went to our hotel room, the four of us.
10:45He had, like, ordered the champagne to the room.
10:50And he was one that, like, opened the door when it came.
10:55We were, like, sitting on the beds and just hanging out, the three of us girls.
11:03And, yeah, he came over.
11:05I'm pretty sure there was, like, a piece of furniture.
11:07You know, like, how there's a piece of furniture in front of the beds.
11:10He had put the champagne there.
11:12And we were behind him on the beds.
11:14And he just started pouring it with his back to us.
11:21It was very casual.
11:23Like, it was a very, like, friendly kind of environment.
11:31And I just remember, like, his whole fucking, like, vibe started to change.
11:38Um, he wanted to play, like, games and stuff.
11:44He basically started asking us, like,
11:47well, how many people have you, like, slept with?
11:50And he would, um...
11:54He started saying, like,
11:56well, why don't we all switch shirts or play Truth or Dare?
12:02And he was like, do you guys mind if we get, like, if I get more comfortable?
12:07And he just, like, takes his pants off.
12:10And he's, like, in his underwear.
12:12And he takes a pillow and puts it over himself.
12:17I don't fucking...
12:18I was just like, what the fuck is that?
12:20And, and...
12:21But then you rationalize it and you're like, well...
12:25Maybe it's just a cultural difference, you know?
12:27Like, maybe it's just him being, I don't know, different.
12:31I don't know.
12:37I remember I started getting really tired.
12:40Like, really, really tired.
12:42And, um...
12:43There was a cot by the closet.
12:46I got up from the bed and I went to the cot.
12:50And I laid down and I, like, knocked out.
13:03I don't know how long I was asleep. I have no idea.
13:09I just remember, like, I woke up at some point.
13:13And no one was in the room.
13:16And I felt like shit.
13:18I had never felt that way in my life.
13:21I have not felt that way in my life since.
13:26Like, it was almost like there was, like, a disconnect between my mind and my body,
13:30where it was like my brain was working on such a slow level.
13:33It was just exhaustion.
13:34Like, I don't know what that was.
13:37When I got up here and I just remember, like, leaning up against the wall
13:41and, like, dragging my feet one in front of the other to, like, get to the bathroom.
13:46I went to go open the bathroom door and when I opened it...
13:52Nicole and Ashley and Manuel were all in the shower, the three of them.
13:56They were in their shirts and underwear and he was in his underwear.
14:00I remember I closed the door and I was like, what the fuck was that?
14:06And then they all came out, like, scurried out.
14:12It almost looks like they were, like, all embarrassed, kind of.
14:15And so I just went in and I sat on the toilet and I was facing the door.
14:23And all I remember...
14:29And it's, like, the thing that's haunted me for years.
14:32It's, like, that memory of just, like, the door swinging open
14:36and seeing his crotch come towards me
14:39and then him putting himself in my mouth
14:41and then me getting hit in the, like, head.
14:44And then I just, like, blacked out.
15:07I woke up the next morning in the cot.
15:10And I was in my clothes.
15:13And my roommates, Nicole and Ashley, were in the beds.
15:16They were sleeping.
15:18He had just, like, he was not in the room.
15:20He was gone.
15:22And I was in a lot of pain.
15:25Like, I was very sore.
15:27And I remember I moved the blanket.
15:30And I looked at my legs.
15:32And I had...
15:33I was wearing pants.
15:34And I remember I looked at my knees.
15:35And I had, like, bruises on my knees.
15:39It just felt like something was really wrong.
15:42Like, I was just in pain.
15:43And I felt very out of control and very slow.
15:47And I remember getting up, got in the shower,
15:52cleaned myself off.
15:53And they woke up.
15:55And we had to get, like, all our stuff ready
15:59because we were leaving that morning to go back to Spain.
16:02And, um, I just remember feeling so fucking exhausted.
16:15I got all my stuff, went downstairs with my stuff.
16:22And I sat on the couch that morning
16:24when we were getting ready to leave the hotel.
16:27And I remember I put my head back.
16:30And I closed my eyes.
16:32And I had that flashback of...
16:37the door opening and him putting himself in my mouth.
16:44And I remember I, like, felt like I was gonna throw up.
16:52It was, like, so vivid and visual
16:55and just, like, horrifying.
16:58Um, that's when I realized what happened.
17:08The craziest thing was...
17:11I couldn't have a breakdown.
17:14I couldn't freak out.
17:16I was in a different country.
17:18I had to just go through it.
17:20Like, I had to just be, like,
17:22just go, just get on the bus.
17:24You'll be fine.
17:26Manuel was at the door of the bus
17:28when we were all going on the bus
17:30to go to Salamanca.
17:34Um, I walked to get onto the bus
17:37and he just, like, looked over my head.
17:41Like, I was not...
17:43It was, like, almost, like, completely invisible,
17:46which I preferred.
17:57But I didn't cry.
17:59Like, I didn't...
18:00I didn't do anything.
18:01I didn't react.
18:03I just went completely into myself.
18:07And I was just, like, no one was home.
18:24I think I went back to the U.S.
18:27maybe, like, May 2014.
18:31I remember crying on the plane.
18:35Because I still wasn't really even admitting to myself
18:38what had happened.
18:46When she came back,
18:48she was not herself.
18:50She was just kind of withdrawn and not herself.
18:53And, and, um, we would say,
18:55what's the matter?
18:56Like, what's wrong?
18:57And she's like, ugh,
18:57I just don't want to be here.
18:59I don't want to be here.
19:00I don't want to, um, you know,
19:02I'm just not used to being back in this state.
19:06I can remember researching it,
19:08and it was a common thing
19:08for kids who had studied abroad.
19:11It's called re-entry depression.
19:14Like, if they come back
19:16and they're not themselves,
19:17just know that it's normal.
19:18And that's what she kept telling us
19:20was going on.
19:24It was, like, my biggest fear
19:26reaching out to my parents
19:28and telling them
19:28because I had so much...
19:33so much, like,
19:36that I didn't want them to know,
19:38you know?
19:41Like...
19:44I'm the first kid.
19:45I'm their daughter.
19:47Like...
19:48I don't know anyone
19:49that this has happened to.
19:52Um...
19:52And I just didn't want them
19:55to feel like they failed me as parents
19:56and let that happen.
20:01So she was only home
20:02for maybe, like, a month,
20:03and then it was time
20:04to start school, um,
20:06at the university,
20:07which was, like,
20:08about a seven-hour drive
20:09from our house.
20:13Gabrielle showed no enthusiasm.
20:14Like, zero.
20:16She wasn't excited.
20:20I was really, really,
20:22really, really depressed.
20:23I had never dealt with depression
20:26like that before.
20:28And, um...
20:30It was...
20:31Everything in my life
20:32became difficult.
20:33Everything in my life
20:34became very difficult.
20:40I started having, like,
20:41these, like, suicidal ideation
20:44and just, like,
20:45these intrusive thoughts
20:46about, like,
20:47just, like, killing myself.
20:50I thought,
20:51you have to tell your parents.
20:53Like, you have to tell your parents,
20:55Gabby, what's going on.
20:58I was outside.
21:00It was a Saturday.
21:04It was a beautiful day.
21:06And she called.
21:10And she was like,
21:11I'm coming home.
21:12And I was like,
21:13you know,
21:13why are you coming home?
21:14What's going on?
21:15And I was like,
21:16you know,
21:16I was raped.
21:18I was raped while I was in Spain.
21:19And, um,
21:20I need to come home.
21:25And, um...
21:28I honestly,
21:29it's kind of a blur after that.
21:32I didn't say what happened.
21:34I said,
21:35come.
21:38And it was, like,
21:39two and a half years
21:39that I didn't tell my family.
21:41They just thought I was depressed.
21:45Having no idea,
21:47like, and I think,
21:48how could I as a mother
21:49have no idea?
21:49But I didn't.
21:50And even my mother-in-law,
21:52Abuela,
21:53had said,
21:54do you think something
21:54happened to her?
21:55I think something happened
21:56to her in Spain.
21:57And I said,
21:58nothing happened to her.
21:59This is normal.
22:01You know?
22:02And I look back
22:02and I say,
22:03ugh.
22:04Like, I can't...
22:04She knew.
22:05She even recognized
22:06that Gabrielle wasn't the same.
22:14My parents opened the door
22:15and they just, like...
22:18They just gave me a hug
22:20and, you know,
22:21we just, like,
22:22tried to go from there
22:23and I was just...
22:24I was, like, desperate.
22:25It was, like,
22:26exactly what I needed.
22:27I just got to the point
22:28where I just needed my family
22:29and I had to face the fact
22:30that I was, um,
22:33suppressing all of...
22:34I just had to, like,
22:35face it all and just tell them
22:37and stop curing it myself.
22:41Yeah.
22:44I said,
22:44did you know this person?
22:45And she said,
22:46yes, it was the tour guide.
22:47It was the person who owned
22:49the tour company.
22:54And I feel like
22:55that's how she felt.
22:56She didn't want
22:57to say the words aloud even
22:59or to even talk about details.
23:02She just wanted to just be
23:03in the security of her own home
23:05and be with us.
23:08And they asked me,
23:10they were like, well,
23:10do you want to go to the police?
23:11And I was like, no.
23:12No, I don't want to go to the police.
23:14Like, I don't want anything
23:15to do with that.
23:20It was just, like,
23:21a time to kind of just, like,
23:22recoup and just heal.
23:27Yeah, it was rough.
23:28It was rough.
23:30A rough time.
23:55I am an artist and graphic designer.
23:58In 2018,
23:59I was in my senior year of college
24:03at Florida State University
24:05in Tallahassee, Florida.
24:20It was a project that I was working on.
24:24It was an installation
24:25on people's experiences,
24:29their best and their worst experiences.
24:31It was supposed to be about
24:33the idea that we're shaped
24:36by our best and worst experiences.
24:39I felt like my world stopped.
24:43I was just totally lost.
24:46I reached out online
24:47to Facebook and Instagram
24:50and social media in general,
24:52trying to find people
24:53to do the interviews
24:55and record themselves for it.
25:00Gabrielle ended up being
25:02one of the people who responded to it
25:06and sent in her audio recording
25:09of her best and her worst day.
25:15When I heard her worst day,
25:18there was just, there was something
25:20very familiar about it.
25:23This is Gabrielle.
25:25I'm going to start answering your questions.
25:28The saddest moment in my life,
25:30probably when I was raped.
25:35I was in Morocco by myself,
25:37well, not by myself,
25:39with two friends.
25:41And we went on a tour,
25:46like a tour guide looked at me
25:47and did some fucked up shit.
25:50Anyways, that was really hard
25:52for a 19-year-old girl.
25:55Yeah, and after that day,
25:59everything was just different.
26:01I wasn't a kid anymore.
26:05She didn't say the name of the company.
26:08She didn't say Manu's name.
26:10It was just a gut feeling that I had.
26:12And that was what prompted me
26:15to reach out to her.
26:24She sends me a message and she's like,
26:25hey, like, thank you for sending this.
26:28You know, I really appreciate you doing that.
26:30I'm so sorry this happened to you.
26:32And ask her if the company that she had gone with
26:36was discover excursions.
26:39She said yes.
26:41She asked me if the person I was talking about
26:43was Manu.
26:46And I said yes.
26:51And so I just started panicking,
26:55like completely lost my mind.
26:57I knew about something very similar
26:59happening to somebody else.
27:04I went to Spain to study abroad in 2017.
27:16My older sister had recommended
27:19discover excursions to us.
27:23We wanted to go on the Morocco trip.
27:27You know, and you want to believe
27:29that your tour guides will have your best interests
27:32at heart when you're out of the country with them.
27:38I remember that there would be like one night
27:43during these trips that would be like a big party
27:46that they would throw.
27:59And that actually ended up being the night where
28:02he, um,
28:05he assaulted these other girls on our trip.
28:10Saw him acting weird around her.
28:13He was just
28:17all over Catherine.
28:18I felt like he was like following her.
28:21And just was always around her,
28:24always talking to her.
28:28I asked Liz, I was like,
28:30can you get me in contact with her?
28:37So then I reached out to this girl.
28:40She was like, yeah, like Manuel basically pushed me on the bed
28:43and tried to put himself on me.
28:45And I got really freaked out.
28:47But, um, but I actually heard that something worse happened
28:51to two other girls on a different discover excursions trip.
28:55So I was like, okay, can you put me in contact with them?
28:58Like I need to track them down and talk to them.
29:02And, um,
29:05so I got in contact with Haley and Carly for the first time.
29:18And they basically told me that he
29:22cornered them in a room, both of them in a room,
29:26in Portugal on one of the discover excursions trip.
29:30He very much was trying to get us to just keep drinking.
29:36Like he wanted to play a game of truth or dare.
29:39And he wanted us to, you know, kiss him and dance for him.
29:42Was grabbing one of them by the wrist and want to let them go.
29:45And he was trying to force them to touch him.
29:50He said, one of, one of you touch me, one of you kiss me.
29:54He told us that we could not leave because we could not leave him with blue balls.
30:00And they were freaked out, freaked out.
30:03Haley was able to kind of spin away from him.
30:07And then when Haley told him to let me go,
30:10he told her that he couldn't let me go because someone had to finish the job.
30:16And she had to run out into the hallway and basically open the door and say,
30:20if you don't fucking get out of here, we're going to tell everyone what you're doing.
30:23He let me go.
30:25And, and then the next day he was gone.
30:29And all of the other tour guides said that he had had a family emergency.
30:39So once I found those three women, I had like a complete switch in my mind.
30:53But she called me hysterical crying, he's doing this to other girls, he's doing this to other girls.
30:58And I was like, what are you talking about?
31:01I was in the car, driving home, on the phone with my mom and immediately focusing on what I was
31:09going to do.
31:11So I got home and started posting on Facebook that day.
31:19My rapist is still raping people.
31:21Like if you know anyone that's going to Spain, you need to tell them that Manuel Blanco Vela at Discover
31:27Excursions is harming women.
31:29Like, please share this.
31:31Me too.
31:31So I just started writing nonstop.
31:34And I took it to a whole other level where I just started, I wrote the same message.
31:42Hey, haven't heard from you in a while.
31:45My rapist is still raping people.
31:46Can you please share my Facebook status?
31:48Like, like insane stuff.
31:51I sent it to like, probably 200 people.
31:54Just direct message on Facebook, just sending that out.
31:58My dad had contacts in Miami with the general consul at the embassy, the Spanish embassy in Miami.
32:11So I went down there, told them what was going on, told them I found these women.
32:16And I remember the general consul was very kind and was going to help me, but was hesitant.
32:23Like, he was like, you shouldn't go on the news about this.
32:26Like, you shouldn't talk to anyone about this.
32:28I wonder why he didn't want us to go to the press, you know, because it's bad press for the
32:33country.
32:40And the second he told me no, I was like, that's exactly what I'm going to fucking do.
32:57We were in the green room and I was like, starting to get really freaked out.
33:01Like, I was like, blacking out, you know?
33:03Yeah, one minute guys, one minute guys.
33:06Here we go, let's have a good show.
33:11I remember I was standing behind the stage and I just started sobbing.
33:23Camera three, go to the get the coin toss.
33:25Three, two, one, camera five.
33:30And I just started breaking down and she came up to me and she was like, you're doing a really
33:35good thing.
33:36Like, I think this is really going to help you and you're going to get him.
33:39And I was like, okay, well, if Megyn Kelly says it, I guess fuck it.
33:43Like, I got to go and do this.
33:45And so I just, she goes out on the stage and then I go out and I remember just like
33:50looking at her.
33:53And she asked me a question and I literally don't remember anything from it.
34:00But apparently it went really well.
34:02My husband and I were in the green room while they did the filming and we were very proud of
34:06her.
34:07And I think at the time we knew that this is going to, this is going to be something big.
34:14I knew that I was going into really unknown territory.
34:20I had no idea what I was, I had no idea that this was going to turn out the way
34:27it did.
34:31When that show happened, a lot of people started reaching out to me.
34:37My phone just started going off.
34:53I was sitting there and was like, wow, this is wild.
34:57I don't even think he was mentioned, but yeah, I was like, oh, this is Manu.
35:02All came crashing together hearing Gabrielle's story.
35:08I never in a million years would have thought it was Manu.
35:11I felt a big sense of clarity, but also like an insane amount of anger.
35:18I guess when I learned from Gabrielle, it felt like so clearly that he is a serial predator and that
35:27he committed these crimes and assaults.
35:31That's when I knew that what happened to me was happening to women for years after and probably years before.
35:41I was telling my parents like, oh, I found a girl here from Rhode Island.
35:45Oh, I found a girl here from Virginia.
35:47Oh, I found two girls from Florida, three girls from Florida.
35:50One's in New York, like finding all these women.
35:52And my parents were just like, Jesus fucking Christ, kid.
36:10This is part of the story that I messaged Gabrielle about that one day, I believe this was early April.
36:22I sat in the office and Manu's not there.
36:28My job was literally to go through, there was like different Facebook groups of universities studying abroad.
36:36And I was supposed to go through each individual person and send them a message from the Discover Excursions account
36:43saying,
36:44come to Morocco and here's like a discount code.
36:52And then I see I'm kind of like pacing on the phone.
36:56And then he comes in and he grabs me like usual.
37:00Aubrey, it's time to go to lunch.
37:02I need to tell you, you know, what's what's going on.
37:06And I'm like, OK.
37:09So we go to lunch.
37:12He sits down, he orders like usual.
37:15He always orders all the stuff for us.
37:17And he goes outside and he's just walking and pacing on the phone like a little frantic.
37:28Then finally he comes, he sits down, he can't eat anything.
37:32And he tries to explain to me like, there are these girls who are just trying to ruin my reputation
37:42and hurt me and get my money.
37:46I don't know why they would do something like this.
37:50This is horrible.
37:51And my, my poor family, like this is ruining my reputation.
37:55This is going to cause pain for my mom.
37:58I was like, oh wow, yeah, like that's, that's crazy.
38:03He was trying to twist it.
38:06He was trying to get my sympathy.
38:10And I went back to the office and he left.
38:16And I knew that it was on the Today Show and I watched the Today Show.
38:22And I saw just how bad it was.
38:28And I left.
38:30And then the next day I think the office was shut down.
38:38We are very aware of this case that has been viral in the last few weeks.
38:42The police are investigating if a tourist tourist company has violated a dozens of clients, in its majority, estadounidense.
38:49A student from Florida just announced his case and this has desencadened a series of similar testimonies.
38:55We've approached the sede of this travel agency, which, as you can see, we found closed.
39:00And we've also tried to talk with the director, who now has not responded to the messages from the media.
39:09This is the time of the National Council of Informations.
39:12I call the co-for-discuits of the public information.
39:13I call my company Discovery Excursions, nobody takes a phone call.
39:16I know that I'm related because it's close to the redacción.
39:19There's no one.
39:21I don't know.
39:22I get a phone call.
39:24I call my company.
39:24I call my company.
39:26I told me that I was concerned about Fernando Perez-Havis on Diario Sevilla and I wanted to talk to
39:29him.
39:30directamente y le decido escribir un mensaje de whatsapp él me responde muy escuetamente
39:39desde nuestra empresa sólo podemos comentar que son todo injurias y calumnias no existen demandas
39:44ni pruebas de ningún tipo todo se hizo viral y sin fundamento los abogados de la empresa
39:48están al tanto en eeuu y en españa simplemente se fue el mensaje que me mandó y que yo reproduje
39:55íntegramente en mi noticia
40:00i remember people started sending me stuff and i'm pretty sure somebody sent me
40:05the screenshot of like the google permanently closed location thing and
40:14that was fucking awesome it was awesome it was amazing it was like it was like okay so now the
40:24access is cut off fuck you fuck your friends fuck everyone who supported you fuck you
40:50i would say the majority of the messages came that week and then they would slowly start rolling in
40:57because then i would have girls come and be like my friend was raped by him but she's too afraid
41:02to contact you
41:06i was raped by him but i don't want to tell my family like i don't know what to do
41:12like
41:12like a bunch of people coming to me and trying to like they would come to me and tell me
41:17everything
41:18it was like one of those moments where i had no idea what i was involved in
41:26and i remember i got a direct message on facebook
41:31she said manuel blancovela killed my daughter
41:35and i was like i was like i was lazy at all
42:33Gracias por ver el video.
43:03Gracias por ver el video.
43:05Gracias por ver el video.
43:35Gracias por ver el video.
44:05Gracias por ver el video.
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