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00:09In the U.S., it's not the culture to go abroad, to study, but my mom said, oh, well, you
00:19can
00:19go to Spain. And I was an 18-year-old kid, you know, and it was just like this, it
00:29was
00:29like an adventure art. I don't know exactly when things got so fucking bad. When I moved
00:43to Spain, I was the youngest kid in my program. American college students who were studying
00:51abroad in Spain. I studied abroad in Sevilla. After I got to Spain, we're saying, oh, let's
01:02go on a trip. Discover Excursions was recommended. We were adults for the first time.
01:19And something really bad happened, and I don't have the language for it. She called
01:23me hysterical crying. Like, what the hell happened?
01:30Was happening for years. I think it was like 50 people towards the end.
01:40I was like, wow, this is wild. You feel like you were in the room with the devil.
02:01My name's Gabrielle Vaca. I am 30 years old. I'm the oldest of three girls. I grew up in a
02:17normal
02:17suburb in the U.S. We got bicycles, and we were always outside, and it was just like a sweet
02:25childhood.
02:28My father is a first-generation American. My mom's from New Jersey. My family has no Spanish roots,
02:38but my husband's side has deep roots in Spain. His grandparents were from Asturias.
02:48My parents really loved the idea of me going back to Spain and reconnecting with the origin story of the
02:55family.
02:57I remember the night before, I was packing my bag, and I was by myself, and I was getting really
03:06sentimental,
03:06and I had started writing letters. I think that's the only letter she's maybe ever written to me.
03:14It was meaningful. We knew she was excited, and she really wasn't afraid, and so it was, you know, it
03:22was a happy thing for us to send her off.
03:25I think my dad, I don't want to say regrets, but wishes that he taught me, like, taught us Spanish
03:32when we were younger.
03:34He was looking at, like, where could I learn the purest form of Spanish, and so he was like, oh,
03:40it's in Salamanca.
03:43So 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, and I was just going to
04:08do whatever I could.
04:16I knew nothing about Salamanca.
04:23It's really, really beautiful, and, you know, you learn the little things about, you know, you meet under the clock
04:30when you're going to go meet your friends in the plaza, and that's where you go to meet,
04:33and then you just set the time, get there, whatever.
04:37I 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?
05:25And we're like, well, Africa, I don't know. Like, but you could go. Like, that would be great.
05:28And so I had always known that that was one of the trips that I really wanted to take just
05:32because 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.
05:46I knew they went to Morocco.
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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.
06:42No CSs for us.
06:43Yeah, it was very professional.
06:45It 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.
06:56And kids from my program, we all kind of decided to go together.
07:03They had organized the trip, the days were planned, you had, like, an itinerary, and it was, like, I think
07:08it 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.
07:13It 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.
07:51I remember being, like, really impressed at how beautiful it was.
07:54There were these mountains that were really incredible, the 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, he seemed like a nice guy who was going to show us around
08:31and 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're 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.
09:26They wanted us to feel comfortable the whole time we were there, you 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.
09:42And, 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.
10:09And Manuel popped up.
10:17He was like, oh, well, like, were you guys getting another drink?
10:20And we were like, yeah, we were gonna.
10:21And he 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.
10:38And 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.
11:01And...
11:03And, yeah, he came over.
11:05I'm pretty sure there was, like, a piece of furniture.
11:08You 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.
11:40He wanted to play, like, games and stuff.
11:44He basically started asking us, like, well, how many people have you, like, slept with?
11:50And he would, um...
11:54He started saying, like, well, 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...
12:21But then you rationalize it and you're like, well...
12:25Maybe it's just a cultural difference.
12:27You 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.
13:05I 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
13:28between my mind and my body where it was, like,
13:30my 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,
13:40leaning up against the wall and, like, dragging my feet
13:43one 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,
13:55the three of them.
13:56They were in their shirts and underwear
13:59and he was in his underwear.
14:00I remember I closed the door.
14:03And I was like, what the fuck was that?
14:06And then, um...
14:10They all came out, like, scurried out.
14:12It almost looks like they were, like,
14:13all embarrassed, kind of.
14:15And so I just went in and I sat on the toilet
14:19and 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,
14:33the door swinging open and 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...
15:19He 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.
16:18Went 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.
17:14Like, I 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
17:38and 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.
18:04I just went completely into myself.
18:07And I was just, like, no one was home.
18:25I think I went back to the US
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, 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.
19:15Like, 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.
19:25It was, like, my biggest fear
19:26reaching out to my parents
19:28and telling them
19:29because I had so much...
19:33so much, like,
19:36that I didn't want them to know,
19:38you know?
19:40Like...
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...
19:53And 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,
20:07at the university,
20:07which was, like,
20:08about a seven-hour drive
20:09from our house.
20:12Gabrielle showed no enthusiasm.
20:15Like, zero.
20:16She wasn't excited.
20:20I was really, really, really,
20:22really depressed.
20:24I 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...
20:42like...
20:43suicidal 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.
21:06It 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, why are you coming home?
21:14What's going on?
21:15And I was like,
21:16you know, I...
21:17I was raped.
21:18I was raped while I was in Spain.
21:19And, um,
21:20I need to come home.
21:26And, um...
21:28I honestly,
21:29it's kind of a blur after that.
21:32I didn't say what happened.
21:34I said, come.
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 happened to her?
21:55I think something happened to her in Spain.
21:57And I said, nothing happened to her.
21:59This is normal.
22:01You know?
22:02And I look back and I say,
22:03ugh.
22:04Like, I can't...
22:04She knew.
22:05She even recognized
22:06that Gabby 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,
22:35and 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.
22:46It was the tour guide.
22:47It was the person
22:48who owned the tour company.
22:54And I feel like
22:55that's how she felt.
22:56She didn't want
22:57to say the words aloud,
22:59even,
22:59or to even
23:01talk about details.
23:02She just wanted to just
23:03be in the security
23:04of her own home
23:05and be with us.
23:08And they asked me,
23:10they were like,
23:10well, do you want
23:11to go to the police?
23:11And I was like, no.
23:12No, I don't want
23:13to go to the police.
23:14Like, I don't want
23:15anything to do with that.
23:20It was just, like,
23:21a time to kind of
23:22just, like, recoup
23:23and just heal.
23:27Yeah, it was rough.
23:28It was rough.
23:30A rough time.
23:54Erm, I am an artist
23:56and graphic designer.
23:58I'm 2018 I was in my senior year of college at Florida State University in
24:05Tallahassee Florida it was a project that I was working on it was an
24:24installation on people's experiences their best and their worst experiences
24:31it was supposed to be about the idea that we're shaped by our best and worst
24:38experiences I reached out online to Facebook and Instagram and social media
24:51in general trying to find people to do the interviews and record themselves for
24:56it
25:00Gabrielle ended up being one of the people who responded to it and sent in her her
25:09audio recording of her best and her worst day when I heard her worst day there was
25:19just there was something very familiar about it this is Gabrielle I'm gonna start
25:26answering your questions the saddest moment in my life probably when I was raped
25:35I was in Morocco by myself well not by myself with two friends and
25:42uh we went on a tour like a tour guide to me and did some fucked up shit anyways that
25:51was really hard for a 19 year old girl
25:55yeah and after that day
25:59everything was just different I wasn't a kid anymore
26:05she didn't say the name of the company she didn't say Manu's name it was just a gut feeling that
26:12I had and that was what prompted me to reach out to her
26:23she sent me a message and she's like hey like thank you for sending this you know I really appreciate
26:29you doing that I'm so sorry this happened to you
26:32and ask her if the company that she had gone with was Discover Excursions
26:39she said yes she asked me if the person I was talking about was Manu and I said yes
26:51and so I just started panicking like completely lost my mind I knew about something very similar happening to somebody
27:00else
27:04I went to Spain to study abroad in 2017
27:16my older sister had recommended Discover Excursions to us we wanted to go on the Morocco trip
27:27you know and you want to believe that your tour guides will have your best interests at heart when you're
27:33out of the country with them
27:38I remember that there would be like one night during these trips that would be like a big party that
27:47they would throw
27:59and that actually ended up being the night where he um he assaulted these other girls on our trip
28:09saw him acting weird around her
28:13he was just
28:17all over Catherine I felt like he was like following her
28:21and just was always around her always talking to her
28:28I asked Liz I was like can you get me in contact with her
28:37so then I reached out to this girl
28:39she was like yeah like Manuel basically pushed me on the bed
28:43and tried to put himself on me and
28:45I got really freaked out but um but I actually heard that something worse
28:51happened to 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 Hayley and Carly for the first time
29:18and they basically told me that he
29:22cornered them in a room
29:23both 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
29:59and they were freaked out freaked out
30:03Hayley was able to kind of spin away from him
30:07and then when Hayley told him to let me go
30:10he told her that he couldn't let me go
30:14because someone had to finish the job
30:16and she had to run out into the hallway
30:18and basically open the door and say
30:20if you don't fucking get out of here
30:21we're going to tell everyone what you're doing
30:22he let me go
30:24and then the next day he was gone
30:29and all of the other tour guides said
30:32that he had had a family emergency
30:39so once I found those three women
30:43I had like a complete switch in my mind
30:53she called me hysterical crying
30:56he's doing this to other girls
30:57he's doing this to other girls
30:58and I was like what are you talking about
31:01I was in the car
31:03driving home
31:04on the phone with my mom
31:06and immediately focusing on what I was going to do
31:11so
31:12I 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
31:23you need to tell them that Manuel Blanco Vela
31:26at Discover Excursions is harming women
31:29like please share this
31:30me too
31:31so I just started writing non-stop
31:34and I took it to a whole other level
31:38where I just started
31:39I wrote the same message
31:42hey haven't heard from you in a while
31:44my rapist is still raping people
31:46can you please share my Facebook status
31:48like like insane stuff
31:50I sent it to like probably 200 people
31:54just direct message on Facebook
31:56just sending that out
31:58my dad had contacts in Miami
32:02with the general consul at the embassy
32:04the Spanish embassy in Miami
32:11so I went down there
32:12told them what was going on
32:14told them I found these women
32:16and I remember the general consul was very kind
32:20and was going to help me
32:21but was hesitant
32:22like he was like
32:23you 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
32:30you know
32:31because it's bad press for the country
32:40and the second he told me no
32:41I was like
32:41that's exactly what I'm going to fucking do
32:57we were in the green room
32:58and I was like starting to get really freaked out
33:01like I was like blacking out
33:03you know
33:03yeah one minute guys
33:05one minute guys
33:06here we go
33:06let's have a good show
33:11I remember I was standing behind the stage
33:17and I just started sobbing
33:23camera three
33:24go to the get the coin toss
33:25three two one
33:29camera five
33:30and I just started breaking down
33:32and she came up to me
33:33and she was like
33:34you're doing a really good thing
33:36like I think this is really going to help you
33:38and you're going to get him
33:38and I was like
33:40okay well if Megyn Kelly says it
33:42I guess fuck it
33:43like I gotta go and do this
33:45and so I just
33:46she goes out on the stage
33:47and then I go out
33:48and I remember just like looking at her
33:53and she asked me a question
33:54and I literally don't remember anything from it
33:59but apparently it went really well
34:02my husband and I were in the green room
34:04while they did the filming
34:05and we were very proud of her
34:07and I think at the time
34:09we knew that this is gonna
34:11this is gonna be something big
34:14I knew
34:17that I was going into really unknown territory
34:20I had no idea what
34:22but I was
34:24I had no idea that this was gonna turn out the way it did
34:31when that show happened
34:33a lot of people started reaching out to me
34:37my phone just started going off
34:53I was sitting there
34:55and was like wow
34:56this is wild
34:57I don't even think he was mentioned
34:59but yeah I was like
35:00oh this is Manu
35:02all came crashing together
35:04hearing Gabrielle's story
35:08I never in a million years
35:10would have thought it was Manu
35:11I felt a big sense of clarity
35:13but also like an insane amount of anger
35:19I guess when I learned from Gabrielle
35:21it felt like so clearly
35:24that he is a serial predator
35:27and that he committed these crimes and assaults
35:31that's when I knew
35:32that what happened to me
35:34was happening to women for years after
35:38and probably years before
35:41I was telling my parents like
35:42oh 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
35:49three girls from Florida
35:50one's in New York
35:51like finding all these women
35:52and my parents were just like
35:53Jesus fucking Christ kid
36:10this is part of the story
36:11that I
36:12I
36:13messaged Gabrielle about
36:15that
36:16one day
36:18I believe this was
36:20early April
36:22I sat in the office
36:24and
36:25Manu's not there
36:28my job was literally to go through
36:31there was like different Facebook groups
36:34of universities studying abroad
36:36and I was supposed to go through
36:38each individual person
36:39and send them a message
36:41from the Discover Excursions account
36:43saying
36:44come to Morocco
36:45and here's like a discount code
36:52and then I see
36:53I'm kind of like pacing
36:54on the phone
36:56and then he comes in
36:58and he grabs me
36:59like usual
37:00Aubrey it's time to go to lunch
37:02I need to tell you
37:03you know
37:04what's
37:05what's going on
37:06and I'm like
37:07okay
37:09so we go to lunch
37:12he sits down
37:13he orders
37:14like usual
37:15he always orders
37:16all the stuff for us
37:17and he goes outside
37:19and he's just
37:20walking
37:21and pacing
37:22on the phone
37:23like
37:23a little frantic
37:28then finally he comes
37:30he sits down
37:31he can't eat anything
37:32and he
37:34tries to explain to me
37:36like
37:36there are
37:37these girls
37:38who
37:39are just
37:40trying to ruin
37:42my reputation
37:42and hurt me
37:44and
37:45get my money
37:46I don't know why
37:48they would do something
37:49like this
37:49this is horrible
37:51and my
37:51my poor family
37:53like this is ruining
37:54my reputation
37:55this is going to cause
37:56pain for my mom
37:58I was like
37:59oh wow
38:00yeah
38:00like that's
38:01that's crazy
38:03he was trying to
38:04twist it
38:06he was trying to get
38:07my sympathy
38:09and
38:11I
38:11I went back
38:12to the office
38:13and he left
38:16and I knew
38:17that it was on
38:17the today show
38:18and I watched
38:18the today show
38:22and I saw
38:24just how bad
38:25it was
38:28and I left
38:30and
38:31then the next day
38:32I think
38:33the office
38:34was
38:34shut down
38:38we
38:38are
38:38very
38:39very
38:39aware
38:39of this
38:40case
38:40that has
38:40been
38:40viral
38:41in the last
38:41weeks
38:42the police
38:42is
38:43investigating
38:43if a tourist
38:44tourist
38:45has violated
38:46a dozen
38:47of clients
38:47in their
38:48most
38:49estadounidenses
38:49a student
38:50of Florida
38:50has denounced
38:51his case
38:52and this
38:52has desencadened
38:53a lot of
38:54testimonials
38:55similar
38:55we have
38:56approached
38:56to the
38:57sede
38:57of this
38:57agency
38:57that we
38:58can see
38:59we have
38:59found
39:00closed
39:00and we
39:01tried to
39:01talk
39:02with
39:02his director
39:03who
39:03has not
39:03responded
39:04to the
39:04messages
39:05from the
39:05media
39:05of
39:05communication
39:08I
39:12call
39:12the
39:13agency
39:13discover
39:13excursions
39:14nobody
39:14takes
39:14the
39:15phone
39:16me
39:16present
39:17because
39:17it's
39:17close to
39:18the
39:18red
39:18there
39:19it's
39:20closed
39:20there
39:21there
39:21I get
39:21the
39:22phone
39:22of
39:22Manuel
39:23Blanco
39:23I call
39:24the phone
39:25I told him
39:27that it was
39:27Fernando Pérez
39:28Ávila
39:28of the
39:28Diario
39:28Sevilla
39:29that I wanted
39:29to talk
39:29to him
39:29and I
39:29got
39:30directly
39:32and I
39:33decided to
39:34send a
39:34message
39:34on
39:35WhatsApp
39:35he
39:36responded
39:36very
39:37quietly
39:39from our
39:39company
39:40we can only
39:40say that
39:41they are all
39:41injurias
39:42and
39:42calumnias
39:42there are no
39:43demand
39:44or
39:44tests
39:44of any
39:44type
39:45everything
39:46was viral
39:46and without
39:47foundation
39:47the
39:48lawyers
39:48are
39:49in the
39:50United
39:50and
39:50Spain
39:51that was
39:52the message
39:53that I
39:53sent
39:54and that
39:54I
39:54reproduced
39:55in my
39:56news
39:56in my
39:59I
40:00remember
40:00people
40:01started sending
40:01me
40:01stuff
40:02and I
40:03I'm pretty
40:04sure
40:04somebody
40:04sent
40:05me
40:05the
40:06screenshot
40:06of like
40:07the
40:07Google
40:07permanently
40:09closed
40:09location
40:10thing
40:11and
40:14that
40:15was
40:15fucking
40:16awesome
40:17it was
40:18awesome
40:18it was
40:19amazing
40:19it was
40:20like
40:20it was
40:22like
40:22okay
40:23so now
40:24the access
40:25is cut
40:25off
40:27fuck you
40:28fuck your
40:29friends
40:30fuck everyone
40:31who supported
40:31you
40:32fuck you
40:50I
40:50would say
40:51the majority
40:51of the messages
40:52came
40:54that week
40:55and then they
40:56would slowly
40:56start rolling in
40:57because then I
40:58would have girls
40:58come and be like
40:59my friend was
41:00raped by him
41:01but she's too
41:02afraid to
41:02contact you
41:06I was raped
41:07by him
41:07but
41:09I don't want
41:10to tell my
41:10family
41:11like I don't
41:11know what
41:12to do
41:12like a bunch
41:13of people
41:13coming to
41:14me
41:14and trying
41:14to
41:15like
41:16they would
41:16come to
41:17me and
41:17tell me
41:17everything
41:18it was like
41:19one of those
41:20moments
41:20where
41:21I had
41:22no idea
41:23what I was
41:24involved in
41:26and I remember
41:27I got a direct
41:27message on
41:28Facebook
41:31she said
41:33Manuel Blancovella
41:35killed my
41:35daughter
41:35her
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