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Despicable cafe boss cheated elderly customer out of €22k by overcharging him for his breakfast over two years in Spain

Despicable cafe owner in Spain cheated elderly customer out of €22k over two years by overcharging him for breakfast

A HEARTLESS Granada cafe owner ripped off an elderly customer to the tune of €22,000 by over-charging him for breakfast between 2023 and 2025. The

30 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Granada·Lead

Fugitive politician on the run for 20 years over sprawling Marbella corruption case pays to avoid jail

Ex-Marbella councillor who fled Spain in 2006 over infamous Malaya corruption case is arrested at Madrid airport

A FORMER Marbella councillor who fled Spain 19 years ago to avoid being indicted in an infamous corruption case has been arrested at Madrid airport

29 Oct, 2025 @ 18:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Teenage hacker arrested in Alicante for making death threats to Podemos leader, Ione Belarra, and the mass theft of personal data

Teenage hacker arrested in Alicante for death threats against left-wing Podemos leader and threatening mass theft of personal data

A 17-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested in the Vinalopo region after making online death threats to the leader of the left-wing political party Podemos. He

29 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Fears of new ‘wolf pack’ as four men are arrested over attack on girl in Pamplona – nine years after horrific assault during Spain’s Running of the Bulls

FOUR men have been arrested over an alleged gang rape of a young woman at a university party in Pamplona – sparking fears of another

29 Oct, 2025 @ 16:00

Crime & Law·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Fears of more victims in the Costa Blanca’s ‘very own Jimmy Savile case’ after Brit charity worker is jailed for raping teenage girl in UK

THE rape conviction of a Costa Blanca-based British charity worker for a crime dating back 30 years has prompted fears many more victims could come

28 Oct, 2025 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·EXCLUSIVE·Lead·Torrevieja

Spain's most famous porn star checks into rehab after drugs trafficking conviction with 'toad poison' trial still pending

Ex-porn star faces four years in prison over toad venom fatally administered to house guest in Valencia

THE Valencia Public Prosecutor wants ex-porn star Nacho Vidal jailed for four years if he’s convicted for killing a photographer in a toad venom drinking

28 Oct, 2025 @ 17:32

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

62 people set to be prosecuted after hundreds of animals are poisoned or illegally hunted in rural Spain

THE Guardia Civil’s annual ‘Atrax’ campaign to combat the illegal killing of animals in mainly rural Spain has led to 62 people being either arrested

28 Oct, 2025 @ 15:00

Animals·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farm to be found in years is raided in Alicante with entry via ‘secret’ door

THE Guardia Civil have dismantled one ‘of the most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farms to be discovered in Alicante province in recent years. Two warehouses in

28 Oct, 2025 @ 14:15

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Murdered woman's decomposing body hidden inside her Costa Blanca home while boyfriend stole her inheritance windfall

Horror in Alicante: Boyfriend ‘kills partner and stashes her corpse on couch in her Costa Blanca home while he makes off with her inheritance windfall’

A WOMAN was stabbed to death and her decomposing corpse kept on her Alicante home couch as her boyfriend stole part of a recent €250,000

28 Oct, 2025 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

British man suffers punctured lung after passer-by stabs him for not giving him a cigarette in Valencia

British man suffers punctured lung after being stabbed by passer-by for not giving him a cigarette in Valencia

A BRITISH man was rushed with a punctured lung to hospital in Valencia after refusing to give a cigarette to a passer-by. The victim- identified

27 Oct, 2025 @ 16:34

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

WATCH: Spanish special forces board Vigo-bound cargo ship and seize 6.5 tonnes of cocaine after tip-off from American DEA

SPANISH special forces have made a major drugs seizure near the Canary Islands from a cargo ship bound for Galicia. Authorities discovered 6.5 tonnes of

27 Oct, 2025 @ 15:30

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Galicia·Lead

Police discover more illegal mobile homes built on protected land in Costa Blanca area

Police discover yet another cluster of illegal mobile homes on protected land in Costa Blanca area

THE Guardia Civil are investigating 29 people over the illegal use of land to erect mobile homes in the Baiona Alta area of Mutxamel. This

27 Oct, 2025 @ 13:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Erasmus student speaks out over terrifying suspected spiking in Madrid night club

As the Olive Press relaunches our Smash the Spiking campaign, two foreign students tell of their terrifying ordeal in a Madrid nightclub A YOUNG exchange

27 Oct, 2025 @ 10:39

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News

Tourist checking into Valencia hotel gets his backpack snatched with €9k of cash and items inside it

Tourist checking into Valencia hotel gets backpack snatched with €9k of cash and items inside it

A TOURIST checking into a Valencia city centre hotel had his backpack containing cash and items worth €9,000 snatched by two opportunistic thieves. Two men

25 Oct, 2025 @ 07:00

Crime & Law·Lead

British man arrested for pre-Christmas killing of fellow countryman on Spain's Costa Blanca

Steel company bosses in Spain to be investigated by court for supplying material to Israel to make weapons

A NATIONAL Court judge has launched a probe into the president of Spanish steelmaker Sidenor and other company bosses over the alleged illegal export of

24 Oct, 2025 @ 17:28

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

WATCH: Police arrest jihadist suspect in Spain who said he would ‘blow himself up in Palestine’

A MAN suspected of fermenting jihadist terorrism and even pledging to become a suicide bomber, has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Huesca. Officers

24 Oct, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead

‘He made me drive or he’d kill us’: French family in ‘race against time’ rescue after horror road trip across Spain

A FRENCH mother and her two young children were held captive for nearly two weeks by her ex-partner, who forced her to drive more than

24 Oct, 2025 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Spanish race car driver confesses to ‘accidentally killing own father with a machete during row in a warehouse’ in northern Spain

A SPANISH race car driver has confessed to killing his father with a machete in July. Antolin Gonzalez, 23, said he wrested the weapon from

24 Oct, 2025 @ 11:15

Crime & Law·Lead

Gang stole 1,100 bar and restaurant chairs from 18 terraces to sell them outside Spain

Devious gang stole over a thousand chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Madrid to sell outside Spain during bizarre summer spree

A SEVEN-STRONG gang stole over 1,100 chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Spain to sell on the black market. The crew were arrested in

22 Oct, 2025 @ 18:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

WATCH: Police arrest German robbers and scammers at gunpoint in popular expat area of Costa Blanca

WATCH: Police arrest German robbers at gunpoint in popular expat area of Costa Blanca

TWO German fugitives have been arrested on San Fulgencio’s La Marina urbanisation in Alicante province. Policia Nacional officers waited for them to return to their

22 Oct, 2025 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Another drug gang operating in the Costa del Sol triangle is smashed in dawn raids across Malaga and La Linea

A MAJOR drug gang operating between Malaga, La Linea and Ceuta has been dismantled in a dawn operation that seized more than a tonne of

22 Oct, 2025 @ 15:45

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law

High-speed car chase tears through the heart of Estepona before crashing into Benahavis roundabout

TWO men tore through the streets of Estepona in a stolen car before smashing into a roundabout on the A-7 motorway near Benahavis after a

22 Oct, 2025 @ 13:50

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

Valencia police stop car for routine check and discover €200k of fake banknotes

VALENCIA police seized €200,000 in fake banknotes during a routine check of a car on Monday. A 41-year-old man and two 35-year-old women were arrested

22 Oct, 2025 @ 13:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Dozens of illegal homes built on protected land face demolition after police probe in Alicante

A MAJOR operation against illegal homes on protected rural land in Alicante province has resulted in 64 people being investigated and 70 inspections. Besides facing

22 Oct, 2025 @ 12:45

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Police say man who died in bin lorry compressor unit was still alive when he was thrown into waste container in Spain

A MAN who was beaten up and thrown unconscious into a waste disposal bin in Castellon died after going through a bin lorry’s compression unit.

21 Oct, 2025 @ 17:11

Castellon·Crime & Law·Lead

Man with fake gun robbed victims outside Alicante’s biggest tourist attraction

POLICE have arrested a 26-year-old man who used a fake gun to rob two couples outside Alicante’s Santa Barbara castle. He was detained outside a

21 Oct, 2025 @ 12:15

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

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Despicable cafe owner in Spain cheated elderly customer out of €22k over two years by overcharging him for breakfast

Ex-Marbella councillor who fled Spain in 2006 over infamous Malaya corruption case is arrested at Madrid airport

Teenage hacker arrested in Alicante for death threats against left-wing Podemos leader and threatening mass theft of personal data

Fears of new ‘wolf pack’ as four men are arrested over attack on girl in Pamplona – nine years after horrific assault during Spain’s Running of the Bulls

EXCLUSIVE: Fears of more victims in the Costa Blanca’s ‘very own Jimmy Savile case’ after Brit charity worker is jailed for raping teenage girl in UK

Ex-porn star faces four years in prison over toad venom fatally administered to house guest in Valencia

62 people set to be prosecuted after hundreds of animals are poisoned or illegally hunted in rural Spain

‘Most sophisticated’ indoor marijuana farm to be found in years is raided in Alicante with entry via ‘secret’ door

Horror in Alicante: Boyfriend ‘kills partner and stashes her corpse on couch in her Costa Blanca home while he makes off with her inheritance windfall’

British man suffers punctured lung after being stabbed by passer-by for not giving him a cigarette in Valencia

WATCH: Spanish special forces board Vigo-bound cargo ship and seize 6.5 tonnes of cocaine after tip-off from American DEA

Police discover yet another cluster of illegal mobile homes on protected land in Costa Blanca area

Erasmus student speaks out over terrifying suspected spiking in Madrid night club

Tourist checking into Valencia hotel gets backpack snatched with €9k of cash and items inside it

Steel company bosses in Spain to be investigated by court for supplying material to Israel to make weapons

WATCH: Police arrest jihadist suspect in Spain who said he would ‘blow himself up in Palestine’

‘He made me drive or he’d kill us’: French family in ‘race against time’ rescue after horror road trip across Spain

Spanish race car driver confesses to ‘accidentally killing own father with a machete during row in a warehouse’ in northern Spain

Devious gang stole over a thousand chairs from bar and restaurant terraces in Madrid to sell outside Spain during bizarre summer spree

WATCH: Police arrest German robbers at gunpoint in popular expat area of Costa Blanca

WATCH: Another drug gang operating in the Costa del Sol triangle is smashed in dawn raids across Malaga and La Linea

High-speed car chase tears through the heart of Estepona before crashing into Benahavis roundabout

Valencia police stop car for routine check and discover €200k of fake banknotes

Dozens of illegal homes built on protected land face demolition after police probe in Alicante

Police say man who died in bin lorry compressor unit was still alive when he was thrown into waste container in Spain

Man with fake gun robbed victims outside Alicante’s biggest tourist attraction

WATCH: Four injured in bone-chilling scenes at Sevilla’s Feria de Abril as fairground ride suddenly snaps in mid-air

Woman, 77, dies following fire at house owned by ‘English-speaking’ couple on Spain’s Costa Blanca

OPINION: Spanish media reacts to corruption allegations involving PM Sanchez’s wife – plus analysis from The Olive Press

Children in eight out of ten Malaga schools breathe air that fails WHO air quality standards – including in Marbella and Torremolinos

The fall of Spain’s youth: How households under-35 have seen their wealth plummet by almost three quarters since 2008