Players Alfredo Fadraga and Yosvani Ávalos, who 24 hours earlier had left the Cuban team that plays in Mexico in the U-23 Pan American Championship, were “arrested by the authorities” of the state of Aguascalientes and returned to the concentration hotel. According to the journalist Francys Romero They were already “transferred to an airport in Mexico to be returned” to the island.
“Terrible reality that they will have to face now returning to Cuba,” he warned. “This is a decision based on both not attempting to drop out again until the team finishes the competition on June 19.”
Sources revealed to the journalist that Fadraga and Ávalos “did not return of their own free will.” The information, says the communicator, was shared around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday. An informer denounced the place where they were and for that reason they were arrested.
“They were in the house of someone related to them,” as Romero explained, is the most reliable version he has. On that site, “a person called the police and they were arrested,” said the communicator through a video uploaded to his social networks.
“This is a decision based on the fact that both do not try to leave again until the team finishes the competition on June 19,” journalist Francys Romero estimated.
Since the alleged return was revealed, “this type of news seemed more like fiction than reality,” Romero said. A Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Zasreporter for SwingFull Several questions arose: “Own will? Repentance? The authorities?”
The Cuban Baseball Federationwhich confirmed the escape of the players by “incurring reprehensible acts”, has not offered a position on the return of Fadraga and Ávalos to the Ramada hotel where the team is staying.
The abandonment of these athletes It had been confirmed early this Thursday. Rodríguez Zas reported that the escape occurred taking advantage of the rest day of the national team, although he could not give more details “even at the express request of the sources.”
This Friday, Francys Romero revealed that the athletes “jumped the hotel fence”, unfortunately they were arrested and “the worst of the endings came to them”. She also recalled that each of the team members does not have documentation.
“If they return to Cuba,” the journalist estimated, “they will surely face sanctions for years or for life. There are people who believe they could face criminal charges, I’m not sure about this, really.”
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