Abducted soccer star safe
NZPA-Reuter Zaragosa Enrique “Quini“ Castro, the star ■Barcelona soccer player who was abducted after a league match on March 1, has been recovered-alive and well, according to the police in the northern Spanish town of Zaragosa. .'*;/•■ Three men had been detained in connection with the kidnappings they said. The police said that they broke into a basement of a workshop and found Castro there with one of his kidnappers, who, they said, was - overpowered. The-’kidnapper. was said to have been in possession of two .pistols. Castro-was in .good health, the police said. There were no negotiations with the kidnappers, and no ramson money was paid. . . - Castro speaking later -• over the national fadio, said that his abducIqrs 'ittreatcd him well throughout, ;and -brought’ him a television set to watch the match between England and Spain, «
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Press, 1 April 1981, Page 31
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