IN a year of humongous cocaine busts in Spanish ports, 2023 signs off with a hefty – but by no means record-breaking – haul of two tonnes in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The drugs were concealed in a ballast tank of the Italian-flagged vessel ‘Grande Francia’, and required over 15 hours of […]
A GANG who blackmailed website users looking to meet young women for sex has been brought down by the Policia Nacional. 13 people have been arrested in Sevilla and Valencia provinces with the police saying that over €350,000 had been extorted. Officers seized 15 mobile phones, three computers and over 125 phone SIM cards from
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PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez visited Spanish troops working in Iraq on Thursday and toured one of their bases. 362 military personnel from Spain are deployed in the Middle Eastern country and are assigned to two missions. Sanchez was shown around several sections of the Union III base accompanied by General Jose Aguero, who is heading
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A FUGITIVE with links to the Italian mafia who was wanted by Belgian and Dutch authorities has been arrested on a Costa Blanca urbanisation. The man- described as ‘violent and dangerous’ was collared in Rojales where he lived with his family. Besides two European Arrest Warrants issued for drug trafficking, kidnapping, injury and property offences,
ELECTRIC scooters will be temporarily banned on buses and metro trains in Spain’s Andalucia from the new year, the regional government has decreed. The Junta de Andalucia has blamed “the dangerous situations created by battery fires in recent months on public transport” for the ban. This halt to carrying these e-scooters on public transport follows
A WEALTHY Portuguese businessman was kidnapped from his home and driven on a harrowing 1,200km journey across Spain before being left tied to a tree in Barcelona. A local police patrol found him battered and disorientated in Collbato in the early hours of the morning, having been robbed of a total of €100,000 from numerous
COVID infections have increased by 83% in the last week to reach 247.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the Valencian Community compared to 135.1 the previous week. Flu cases have risen by 183.47% to 142.3 cases per 100,000 people compared to 50.2 a week earlier. Instances of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) grew by 25.1% to
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A MAJOR police manhunt is underway after a ‘highly dangerous’ Ceuta hitman slipped out of a Madrid jail the day before Christmas Eve. The Policia Nacional have taken the unusual step of issuing a wanted notice revealing the prisoner’s full name and photo. Yousef Mohamed Lehrech, 20, measuring 188cm tall, with curly brown hair and
POLICE are searching for three suspects who gagged, extorted, threatened with a firearm and beat up two Colombian nationals in Spain’s Costa del Sol. Guardia Civil agents have already arrested their one of the suspects during the so-called operation ‘Croque’ which looked to discover the perpetrators. Police said the arrested man was the Colombians’ former
WITH four more days to go of the rainy season, Malaga has already recorded its driest year since records began in the 19th century. The rain gauge at Malaga airport recorded a paltry 179.3 litres per square metre, an unprecedented low since 1872, when the earliest recordings started. These findings eclipse previous records held since
