Spanish singer Fernando Madina arrested at Miami airport

Source: Digital Journal

Spanish singer Fernando Madina arrested at Miami airport
By Anne Sewell
Dec 10, 2013 - 9 hours ago

Miami - Singer and bassist Fernando Madina of the Spanish punk-rock band Reincidentes was detained on Friday at Miami airport en route to a concert in Quito, Ecuador. It took 48 hours for his family to finally learn where he was and why he had been detained.

The concert in Quito, Ecuador had to be postponed as Madina was unable to travel there in time to play.
La Vanguardia reported (in Spanish) that initially US authorities did not inform his family of the situation and they eventually had to get in touch with the Spanish Embassy in Washington to get more information.
According to the offices of Attraction Management, the situation was described as being "shameful" as there was no record of any complaint against Madina and that he "had done nothing to be stopped" at the airport.

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The band apparently had a similar experience back in October 2010, en route to a gig in Colombia, and were also stopped at Miami airport.
In that incident it was the guitarist, Juan Manuel Rodriguez, who was arrested without explanation. Just as the band was about to cancel the concert, the musician was released, and apparently he had been mistaken for a criminal wanted by the FBI.



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