Roberto Fraile Fernández (1974 – 26 April 2021) was a Spanish journalist and cameraman.

Biography

Born in

Barakaldo Barakaldo (; ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the Biscay province in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country in Spain. Located on the Left Bank (Biscay), Left Bank of the Estuary of Bilbao, the city is pa ...

, he lived and worked in various media in

Salamanca Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...

. He was a cameraman for Salamanca television since the 1990s and for some years he was also at La 8 de Salamanca. During a good part of his career he was linked to . He combined this work with filming armed conflicts. In 2012 he was injured by an explosion in

Aleppo Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...

, where he was filming insurgent troops in the context of the Syrian civil war and was operated on in a hospital and evacuated to Turkey. During the last years of his life he made documentaries in Colombia and Brazil.

Murder

On 26 April 2021, Fraile was killed at the age of 46, alongside fellow Spanish journalist

David Beriáin David Beriáin Amatriáin (1977 – 26 April 2021) was a Spanish journalist, producer, and documentary anchor, who specialized in armed conflicts, violence, and immersion journalism. Biography David Beriáin was born in Pamplona in a red cros ...

and Irish conservationist Rory Young, while they were filming a documentary about

poaching Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. Poaching was once performed by impoverished peasants for subsistence purposes and to supplement meager diets. It was set against the huntin ...

in Pama,

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. Their convoy was ambushed by Nusrat al-Islam, which then opened fire against them. He had two sons.

References

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