In the end they left Libya the day they had planned. The Asturian businesswoman Begoña Fernández Costales and the other eight members of the Spanish commercial mission caught in Tripoli to the unleash a war between militias, He left at nine o’clock on Thursday at the Misrata airport on a plane chartered by the Spanish and Italian embassies to Rome. “It has been a complex evacuation. We travel from Tripoli to Misrata, where the airport is, in a convoy by land organized by the embassy, ”he explained. There was no problem in this displacement, perhaps the most critical moment.
“We are very calm, We have not noticed danger to our integrity, Despite the crossfire, it has not been ‘a nightmare’. In the embassy we have been careful to us, as at the hotel, “said the Asturian businesswoman. In a video made by her on Wednesday morning, she had indicated that, about two in the morning, she had aroused the explosion of a bomb. The members of the delegation took refuge in the hotel’s basement, until in the afternoon they could be escorted to the Spanish embassy.
The organizer of this trip, ROBERTO BARROSdirector of International of the Cambra de Tarragona, indicated shortly before leaving to Rome: “It has been complicated, but We have had the invaluable collaboration of Ambassador Javier Soria and his second at the Embassy, Álvaro Bordallothat have been forced so that we could leave the country as quickly as possible. Despite all difficulties, entrepreneurs are happy, they have made very good meetings and They are still intended to return if the situation does not reduce. The hospitality of people and companies has been fantastic. It has been a complicated experience, but it has gone well. “
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