PERU: BODY OF MISSING SPANISH BULLFIGHTER JOSE REINA IS FOUND WASHED UP ON A BEACH

Record ID: 376254

  • Title: PERU: BODY OF MISSING SPANISH BULLFIGHTER JOSE REINA IS FOUND WASHED UP ON A BEACH
  • Date: 18th July 2002
  • Summary: (U1)LIMA, PERU (JULY 9, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV / MV PAN BEACH, WITH BODY OF SPANISH BULLFIGHTER JOSE REINA COVERED BY NEWSPAPERS; SCU FOOT (3 SHOTS) 0.18 2. MV FAMILY MEMBERS OF SPANISH BULLFIGHTER ON BEACH; MV BULLFIGHTER'S FATHER SITTING INSIDE VEHICLE (SMOKING A CIGARETTE); SLV MEDIA (5 SHOTS) 0.47 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ALEJANDRO ARI
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 2002 13:00
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  • Location: LIMA, PERU
  • Country: Peru
  • Reuters ID: LVA494BHEWJLUSEMXAS52G42D5HO
  • Story Text: The body of a Spanish bullfighter who disappeared in
    Peru a week ago was found washed up on a Lima beach.

    The body of Jose Reina, a 23 year-old Spanish
    bullfighter who disappeared in Peru on July 2, was found on
    Tuesday (July 9, 2002) on a popular Lima surfing beach.

    After initial inspection, the body lay on Waikiki beach
    covered with newspaper on the pebbles.

    Reina's father, also called Jose had flown to Peru from
    Spain to join the hunt, and identified his son from the body's
    clothes and a scar on his knee.

    Media reports said Reina arrived in Peru on June 22 for a
    bullfighting tour. He had taken part in a bullfighting
    festival in the northern town of Cajamarca, but disappeared on
    July 2.

    Alejandro Arieta, a bullfighter who had been on the
    same tour as Reina, said he did not know anything about the
    whereabouts of the victim.

    "The last time we saw him was about a week ago when we
    were all heading to Trujillo. We didn't know anything, no one
    didn't know anything, not his friends nor his friends in Lima,
    nothing. No one knew anything until this moment when it
    appeared that he is there, dead," Arieta said.

    According to police, Reina was last seen last week when he
    left his Lima hotel, telling other bullfighters travelling
    with him that he was going for a meal. They said he was
    carrying more than 1,000 U.S.dollars.

    Police had searched red-light districts after two
    witnesses reported seeing Reina with "a long-haired woman,"
    but said they had no immediate details of how he died.

    "There is a preliminary finding that he died of
    asphyxiation but I couldn't give any more details," said
    Attorney General Fara Cubillas.

    According to one police official, the body had been in the
    water for around six days.

    Police had suspected he was suffering from depression and
    personal problems after an argument with the mother of his
    daughter.


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