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British gang charged over mass food poisoning scam involving hotels on Spain’s Mallorca

EIGHT British people are being prosecuted for fraud by a Palma court after setting up a scam to make money out of bogus cases of food poisoning at Mallorca hotels. Judge Maria

26 Jan, 2023 @ 12:21

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

EFormer Barcelona footballer Dani Alves to stand trial in Spain on night club sex assault charges

Ex-Barcelona star Dani Alves jailed after arrest in Spain over alleged nightclub sex assault

FORMER Barcelona footballer Dani Alves has been jailed after being denied bail in a pre-trial hearing on Friday that saw him charged with sexually assaulting a woman. The incident happened on December

20 Jan, 2023 @ 13:38

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Italian gang arrested for stealing luxury watches from elderly foreign tourists in Spain's Balearic Islands

Pair accused of raping British teen in Mallorca given passports to return to Vietnam

TWO men accused of raping a 17-year-old British girl at a hotel in Mallorca have returned to Vietnam after the judge gave them back their passports. The Vietnamese actor and musician had

12 Aug, 2022 @ 13:00

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Judge in Spain says Real Madrid and Barcelona can be punished for trying to set up aborted European Super League

A Madrid judge has lifted restrictions that stopped footballing bodies UEFA and FIFA penalising clubs who signed up to the rebel European Super League. Sofia Gil Garcia from the Mercantile Court said

21 Apr, 2022 @ 18:01

Barcelona·Football·Lead·Madrid·Sport

British girl, 14, sexually assaulted in Barcelona area hotel during family holiday in Spain

A 14-year-old British girl was sexually assaulted last Thursday while on holiday with her parents in Callela on the Costa del Maresme- 50 kilometres south of Barcelona. A man has been arrested

11 Apr, 2022 @ 12:25

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

British expat jailed for 20 years after admitting to brutally stabbing his wife to death in Spanish mansion

A BRITISH expat has been caged for 20 years after being convicted of having sex with his wife before killing her in a frenzied knife attack at their £450,000 Costa del Sol

30 Nov, 2021 @ 09:45

Lead·Malaga

Judge rules ‘no case to answer’ for those who secretly filmed women urinating in the street during fiesta in Spain and posted on porn sites

DOZENS of women who were secretly filmed urinating in the street during a fiesta in Galicia are demanding justice after the footage was posted on porn sites. The women – who number

7 Oct, 2021 @ 14:45

Crime & Law·Lead

Judge in Spain’s Mallorca charged for seizing journalists’ phones during Cursach case

A JUDGE who seized two journalists’ phones covering a court case, has been charged.

8 Mar, 2020 @ 09:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Man living in Spain’s Andalucia for 15 years denied citizenship for ‘inability to read and write Spanish’ and ‘not knowing culture’

“Not only has he difficulty expressing himself in the official language of the State but he does not know how to read or write in it”

16 Sep, 2019 @ 11:15

Huelva·Lead

Judge rules rapist gym teacher from Malaga, who was sentenced to 271 years, is allowed to walk the streets on weekends

Juan Carlos GR was imprisoned in 2005 for crimes committed between 1997 and 2002, but now a judge in Granda has granted the inmate be allowed to leave the prison on weekends.

12 Sep, 2019 @ 12:40

Lead·Malaga

BUBBLE TROUBLE: Coca-Cola banned from selling Schweppes tonic in Spain after court ruling

The brand quickly became a market leader, with a 54.8% share, and experienced a strong increase in sales as the popularity of gin and tonic soared

8 Sep, 2019 @ 11:11

Crime & Law·Food & Drink·Lead·National News

Irish Ryanair pilots strike in Spain ruled out by judge citing short timescales

“Over a year’s worth of meetings at official Spanish institutions at which they routinely displayed a mocking attitude does not give us the slightest hope of reaching any kind of understanding”

21 Aug, 2019 @ 16:40

Business & Finance·Lead·Travel News

Spanish man arrested over rape of British teenage girl in park in Spain

The pair are reported to have met during a night out in the city

15 Jul, 2019 @ 08:53

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain haulage firm forced by judge to remove ‘objectifying’ image of woman from its trucks

The pictures ‘encourage the objectification of women’, according to Judge Carmelo Ordoñez Fernandez, who ordered the removal

6 Jul, 2019 @ 11:01

Lead·National News

Spain’s Supreme Court blocks reburial of General Franco just days before body due to be dug up

The arguments of his family against removing him from the Valley of the Fallen rested on the ‘irreparable’ damage it would cause

5 Jun, 2019 @ 17:49

Lead·National News·Politics

Serial British conman who preyed on elderly and vulnerable arrested on Costa del Sol after 15 years on run

The judge in the case labelled him a ‘amoral fraudster’ as he was found guilty of swindling a dozen clients

27 May, 2019 @ 12:13

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Spain’s Julio Iglesias is ‘willing’ to do DNA test to find out if Spanish lovechild is really his

A 99.99% DNA match between Sanchez and Iglesias in 2017 was deemed inadmissible

22 May, 2019 @ 18:18

Celebrity·Lead·National News

Judge allows convicted British criminal to go on Spain holiday after taser and cocaine bust

Judge Jenkins agreed to postpone the crook’s sentencing as ‘an act of mercy’ but campaigners have said it sends mixed messages to crime victims

22 May, 2019 @ 16:56

Crime & Law·Lead

Bar owner in Spain who said ‘I don’t want black people here’ fined €1,500 after refusing to let black group in

On top of the fine, the bar owner will now also be banned from working in the leisure, teaching and sporting sectors for 30 months

12 Feb, 2019 @ 15:13

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Judges in Spain let ‘Wolf Pack rapists’ roam free after delaying 9-year sentence for brutal sex attack

THE infamous gang behind the sex attack that rocked Spain has been spared prison. Three of Spain’s top judges made the ruling after the five men were already given nine years for

3 Jan, 2019 @ 11:34

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Sevilla

90-year-old woman killed by youth on his phone becomes Spain’s first electric scooter death

After the woman fell down and hit her head on the pavement she was rushed to the Moisès Broggi Hospital in a critical condition, where she died days later

29 Nov, 2018 @ 11:09

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News

OUTRAGE as uncle and nephew cleared of rape after drugging woman in back alley sex attack in Spain

An uncle and nephew were only cleared of the more serious offence of sexual assault - Spain's equivalent to rape

23 Nov, 2018 @ 16:36

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·National News

Probe into partner of missing Scot expat Lisa Brown to be reopened in southern Spain

It comes after a Spanish judge chose to ‘freeze’ the two-and-a-half year investigation into Simon Corner in April

18 Oct, 2018 @ 19:24

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Parents allowed to read kids’ Whatsapp messages, court rules in Pontevedra

The judge ruled that there was a legal clash with Article 154 of the country’s civil code, relating to parental responsibilities.

6 Jan, 2018 @ 13:59

Crime & Law·Education·La Cultura

Riot girls: Feminist court case highlights how freedom of expression is stifled in Spain

Last month, a student was given a suspended prison sentence after tweeting about the 1973 assassination of Francoist Prime Minister Admiral Blanco

1 May, 2017 @ 12:34

Opinion·Sevilla

Feminist protestors to face trial after carrying giant plastic vagina through Sevilla streets

The trio are accused of offending religious sentiments after their procession, called Saint Pxxxx Rebellious, through the Andalucian city in 2014

25 Apr, 2017 @ 13:13

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla