August 2022

Three men use knife and terrace chairs as street fighting weapons on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THREE men involved in a brutal Alicante street fight have been arrested by the Policia Nacional. All three needed stitches at Alicante General Hospital following the brawl which included terrace chairs thrown around and knife stabbings. The street fight happened in the Plaza de Quijano in the ‘Old Town’ area of the city. The showdown […]

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Crimewave: Violent robberies in Marbella surge to almost double the number of three years ago

THE number of violent robberies reported to police in Marbella in the first half of 2022 is almost double that of three years ago, new data  has revealed. Statistics from Spain’s Interior Ministryshow that there were 90% more ‘robberies using violence’ between January and June than there were during the same period in 2019. Local

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WATCH: Call for ban on tourist carriages after horse collapses in heat during Malaga feria on Spain’s Costa del Sol

CALLS to ban tourist carriages have reignited after yet another horse collapsed in the extreme heat, this time during Malaga’s feria.  The animal rights partyu Pacma has highlighted the recent case which took place on August 18. A video showed the horse falling to the ground in the heat of the day while pulling a

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Pedro Sanchez classifies fire-ravaged areas of Spain’s Alicante and Valencia as disaster zones

PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez will designate major fire sites at Bejis(Castellon) and Vall d’Ebo(Alicante) as disaster zones. Speaking during a Monday visit to Bejis, Sanchez said all areas of Spain devastated by fires this year will get the same classification. The measure will be formally approved at Tuesday’s Council of Ministers meeting in Madrid. Sanchez

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Spanish police bust notorious drug trafficker known as the Queen of Ronda

A NOTORIOUS drug trafficker dubbed the Queen of Ronda who ran a network of mules bringing in cocaine from the Caribbean has been busted by police in Madrid. Maria del Mar Mellado, 38, led a double life.  To outsiders she appeared to be an-out-of-work beautician living a quiet life in the pretty whitewashed hilltop town

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Danish tourist tries to run over police officer before escape bid from Palma de Mallorca airport in Spain

A 33-year-old Danish tourist has been arrested at Palma de Mallorca airport after trying to run over a police officer. The Guardia Civil detained him on Saturday- a day after the incident in Alcudia. A passer-by alerted the Alcudia Policia Local that a man and woman were having an argument in the street. An officer

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Man refused full custody of son despite ‘harm’ fears of ex-wife being Hare Krishna believer in Spain’s Murcia

A man has lost a bid to get full custody of his son claiming he is being harmed because his ex-wife practices the Hare Krishna religion. A Murcia Provincial Court judge in Cartagena ruled there were no grounds to change the current shared custody arrangement. He also rejected a counter-claim from the mother who wanted

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Spain passes 6,000 mark in confirmed monkeypox cases

SPAIN has surpassed 6,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox according to Ministry of Health figures. Up to last Friday, 6,119 infections were recorded- two-thirds of them in the Catalunya and Madrid regions. Madrid stood at 2,216 cases, with Catalunya on 1,825. They’re followed by Andalucia on 739 and the Valencian Community on 405. Further down the

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Thieves break into 20 petrol station station shops to steal cash and cigarette machines in Spain’s Valencia

A gang plundered over 20 service station shops across the Valencia Community in a spree of overnight robberies. They smashed through shop windows and doors to rifle for money from vending machines and carried out cigarette machines in garbage bags. The thieves used hammers and other tools to get into premises at night. The four-man

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