Thanks so much, you all. This is another article I would like translated about Joran's acquantance, Elton Garcia. The article is fine but if you would just listen to the video and determine if there is anything of value I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for starting this thread and helping with translations.
http://elcomercio.pe/noticia/490019/ciudadano-albanes-acompano-joran-van-der-sloot-competencia-poker
I didn't do the article itself and I'm too tired right now to do it. Have to get up in 4 hours so it's a "no go", but I did the video translation last night, before he confessed. I didn't post it because I thought it was a moot point. Here it is:
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His name is Elton Garcia and he is 35 years old. He was born in Albania but is a nationalized Uruguayan. He flees the cameras after declaring at the Divicri, hiding in the taxi, he didn’t want to answer. (I can not make out most of the questions the reporter asks him while in the taxi. Bad audio due to traffic noises). “Are you the one she won 5,000 dollars from?” I hear something like “I have no idea what you are talking about”. “Are you a friend of the Dutchman?”.
…. But Americo Noticias managed to get his declaration:
García tells that he was living in the same hotel as the Dutchman starting at the beginning of May. He met Stephany Flores and Joran van der Sloot because they went to the Casino where only he participated in the Poker World Championship. The night of Tuesday, June 1, Jordan did not go to a dinner that had been planned, and worried, he went to the Atlantic City to look for him. From there he asked that they call the TAC Hotel but he wasn’t there either. After he finished his game, he decided to go to the hotel. “I asked the receptionist whether he was in his room and she told me he was not there, and that the police was on it’s way because they had found a dead woman in this guy’s room. When the police arrived they asked me to see the body, but I didn’t want to see (it). They made me look at a photo and I recognized her. It was Stephany. I also saw the video camera of the hotel and I was able to recognize her when she was entering with Joran van der Sloot.”
Garcia didn’t say anything about the alleged 5,000 dollars he may have lost playing with Stephany, but he told that she had won 2,000 Soles in a poker game at the beginning of May.
According to his immigration registration there were several entries from Uruguay since the year 2008. Sometimes he remained in Peru for 3 days, other times 2 weeks. He arrived to our country on April 29th of this year as a tourist. Furthermore, during his participation in the World Poker Championship, held in Lima, in the Atlantic City Hotel, he identified himself as Uruguayan, as seen on internet page PeruPoker.net
Hours before, Stephany’s father Ricardo Flores also declared at Divicri about his first approach to Personal Domicilios “I didn’t know that he was stealing my daughter’s money, I didn’t know that he had stolen the jewelery of my daughter, because I really didn’t….didn’t….. my contact was with the police that handles kidnappings”
The Kidnapping divison turned over the case………when the body of the victim was found, and Homicidios took it over . Flores assured that he tennis racket, the alleged attack weapon, did not belong to his daughter, but to the dutchman.
During the morning, homicide personnel of Divicri again investigated Hotel TAC of Miraflores, and this time they concentrated on the documentation the Dutchman could have left behind. The police gathered the various payment stubs and also contacted the neighbors to talk to the personnel of the Mini Market. There, the police found out that the Dutchman bought two cups of coffee at 8:00 am on Sunday, returned to the hotel, went up to his room, and returned with only one cup of coffee to pay for 2 late days, and it was 8:25. At 8:45 he left with a black backpack and a brown suitcase in his hand. They never saw him again.
Now the two anchors (male + female) comment: “Now here we have the declaration of Elton Garcia, the Albanian, Uruguayan-nationalized citizen that to clarify what happened with Stephany Flores. There are a couple of important questions, for instance he was asked when he first met Stephany Flores. He says that “I met her during the first week of May 2010 during the night when I was playing poker in the Fiesta Casino on Avenida Benavides”. After that they ask him “About how many times have you played poker with her”. He says that he played with her approximately 4 times, in the Casino Atlantic City and Fiesta on Benavides Avenue, and he also says that while he was in his room, the police went to his room when it had already been made public that the death, when it was alreado known where the crime scene was.
The Police went to his room to look for him when the death of Stephany was already known , when the crime scene also was known, the police came to look for him in his room so that he could go view the body and – as I said – he didn’t want to do that. “They made me look at a photograph of the dead girl and I recognized her, she was Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez.
Female: this poker friend of Stephany’s and van der Sloot’s was surprised because he had not seen them for a couple of days. During an event – I think – where a group of players met, and they had not been there. So he worries much (the male anchor interrupts her)
And all he says coincides perfectly with what he tells the police.
Receptionist Adelia Aobad Marchena, who is exactly the person who – worried, because nobody answers the phone call to the room after 2 days, is the person who after 2 days enters the room with a second key (copy)… enters and finds Stephany’s body and here, she gives details of how she found the room, she says for instance “the light was on, the TV was on with normal volume, there was a pair of cloth slippers, the bed was totally unmade, all the clothes, a whole bunch of clothing – she says – everything on the floor. She turned to the right and saw….well…the body of Stephany. Very frightened she went closer and saw that it wasn’t a man’s but a woman’s body. Well and…there are several other details that we already know. Anyway, he registered May 14th and disappeared without anyone seeing him at the hotel.
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I know I didn't get Dimicri or Divicri right but too tired to go search for the right spelling now. Nite nite!