4 hours agoMaradona tattoo and Mess photo save journalists in Ukraine
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Journalists from South America have unveiled how Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona have helped them to get out of a dispute with authorities in Ukraine, writes the Daily Mail, records Periscope. According to an silver television channel, they were banned at an opening point, sent to the police station where they were [...]
According to an silver television channel, they were banned at an opening point, sent to the police station where they were even interrogated.
And right now, the legends of Argentina football, Messy and Maradona, got them out of trouble.
Today, on one of the way in, the police took our documents, cameras, phones and sent us to the police station. The first exchanges were tense: Ukraine is a place of war, and spies and sabotagers are suspicious. Until one of the policemen saw my fellow Argentinians' passports and among many Ukrainian words, he said he understood only two: Messy and Maradona. This is the moment that changed everything. The cameraman, Juan Zamudio, indicated that he has a Diego Maradonas tattoo on the leg of”, wrote Daniel Matamala in his story at ʹInstagram 911.
Argentina journalist Guilermo Panizza said he received the phone when he told authorities he had a photograph of him with Mess.
It's very large that he helped us get out of a police station in Ukraine. Thank you for this picture and for being Argentinas”, he added.
Journalists are in Ukraine surrounded by reporting about the conflict there after the Russian occupation./DailyMail/Periscope/
