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Frenchman, 35, who ‘stole €450,000 worth of windsurfing equipment’ from the Mar Menor in Spain is arrested

A THIEF took €450,000 of windsurfing gear from a European championship event on the Mar Menor and drove his haul to an Alicante province warehouse, over 100 kilometres away. The French national,

9 Apr, 2024 @ 14:43

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia·Other News

Passport control overhaul begins in Spain: Airport in holiday hotspot makes way for the EU’s upcoming Entry/Exit System

MURCIA’S Corvera Airport will have a fully-automated passport control area completed by May 1. The upcoming EES system logs people entering and leaving Spain including UK travellers that do not have Spanish

9 Apr, 2024 @ 13:40

Lead·Murcia

'Love Hug' robber with eight year trail of crime is arrested yet again on Spain's Costa Blanca

Warning over ‘love hugging’ scam in Murcia after string of elderly people are targeted by gang

TWO members of a ‘love-hug’ gang that travelled around Spain robbing elderly people have been jailed. Four Romanians- aged between 28 and 31- rented a house in the Murcia region to act

9 Apr, 2024 @ 11:30

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Why property prices in Spain WILL fall next year - according to experts in Brussels

Foreign buyers accounted for 15% of homes bought in Spain last year – the highest figure ever

FOREIGN house buyers are continuing to target the Spanish real estate market as domestic purchases continue to fall. Figures from the country’s notaries for 2023 show that 14.98% of property purchasers came

8 Apr, 2024 @ 11:15

Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Canary Islands·Catalunya·Lead·Murcia·Other News·Property·Valencian Community

IN PICS: Tennis ace Carlos Alcaraz, 20, receives Athlete of the Year award from King Felipe of Spain

SPANISH tennis star Carlos Alcaraz had a royal appointment on Thursday when received an award from King Felipe and Queen Letizia for being the best Spanish athlete at the National Sports Awards

5 Apr, 2024 @ 06:00

Galicia·Lead·Madrid·Murcia·National News·Other News·Sport

Kidnapped man rescued thanks to US tip-off after five-day €700,000 ransom ordeal in Spain

AMERICAN authorities tipped off the Guardia Civil about a kidnapping where the victim was threatened with death if he did not pay his captors €700,000. A 29-year-old Colombian man was freed from

29 Mar, 2024 @ 15:51

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Murcia·Other News

Cybercriminals threaten to publish 'infected' patient files from hospital in Spain's Barcelona

Humiliation for town hall in southern Spain after losing €450,000 to ‘phishing’ scammers

GUARDIA Civil cybercrime experts are investigating whether a Murcia region council has lost over €455,000 of public money through an email scam. The mayor of Torre Pacheco, Pedro Angel Roca, said that

19 Mar, 2024 @ 11:42

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Laboratory cooking up powerful marijuana-based drug is shut down by police in Spain’s Murcia

A clandestine laboratory concocting a cannabis extract drug called rosin has been busted by the Policia Nacional in the Murcia region. 17 people of various nationalities have been arrested in the Murcia,

13 Mar, 2024 @ 16:15

Alicante·Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Drugs·Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia·Other News

Malaga to Madrid from €7: Renfe launches sale on train fares starting TODAY

New high-speed rail routes in Spain: British expat hotspots on the Costa Blanca will be directly connected to these three fantastic cities

HIGH speed train services from state operator Renfe departing from Elche, Orihuela and Murcia will be directly linked to three Castilla y Leon region cities from next month. From April 8, people

13 Mar, 2024 @ 11:57

Costa Blanca·Lead·Murcia·Valencian Community

New move to stop dangerous farmland pollution that's been devastating Spain's Mar Menor lagoon

Companies which dumped brine into Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon are fined €2.3million

SIX companies and farmers have been stung with €2.3 million of fines for polluting the Mar Menor lagoon in the Murcia region. The Ministry of Environment has finished sanctioning investigations that started

12 Mar, 2024 @ 17:45

Crime & Law·Environment·Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia·Other News

Tap water had toxin levels up to 1,000 times over safety limit on Valencia industrial estate in Spain

Drought latest in Spain: Water pressure to be reduced on the Costa Blanca – this is all you need to know

OVERNIGHT water pressure levels have been cut in Alicante City to conserve reduced supplies due to the ongoing drought. The Jucar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ), which is the body responsible for water supplies

12 Mar, 2024 @ 15:44

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Murcia·Valencian Community

Property ‘scam’ latest in Spain: Three arrests after buyers in Andalucia and Murcia paid up to €55,000 for homes that will NEVER be built

THREE people have been arrested in Malaga for scamming around 1,200 clients who paid up to €55,000 for homes that will never be built. The people detained by the Guardia Civil are

5 Mar, 2024 @ 14:30

Almeria·Andalucia·Crime & Law·Granada·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Carlos Alcaraz defeats Rafael Nadal in highly-anticipated Netflix Slam in Las Vegas

RAFA Nadal said one good thing about nearing the end of his career is that he will not have to face Carlos Alcaraz too many times after the 37-year-old Spaniard lost to

5 Mar, 2024 @ 10:30

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca·Murcia·Sport

Covid Infected Teenager Slaps Mother In Face After Being Told To Stay At Home In Valencia Area Of Spain

Two girls, 13 and 15, raped after pimps offered them €20 each for sex at Murcia area flat in Spain

TWO women have been arrested in Murcia City for pimping out two underage girls they’d just met. Two men have also been detained by the Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil and have

1 Mar, 2024 @ 12:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Scammers con bank into getting €950,000 personal loan on Spain's Costa Blanca

Hacker in Murcia accesses details of millions of drivers in Spain

A CYBERHACKER has been arrested in Murcia City after stealing details of over 40 million cars and their owners. The Policia Nacional said the man took advantage of website and computer vulnerabilities

28 Feb, 2024 @ 13:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Mark Acklom victim will not receive ANY of her stolen £750,000 – as serial fraudster enjoys his new found freedom in Spain

A VICTIM of Spanish-based serial fraudster Mark Acklom has been told that she won’t get any compensation from her bank over being conned out of £750,000. Barclays Bank has told Carolyn Woods

20 Feb, 2024 @ 11:16

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Must Read·Other News

Three Brits accused of swindling €17.3m out of British clients in southern Spain will finally stand trial TODAY – almost 20 years later

THREE British nationals and three Spaniards went on trial on Monday over a €17.3 million real estate scam involving UK citizens buying property in La Manga de Mar Menor. The case is

12 Feb, 2024 @ 13:11

Crime & Law·Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia·Other News·Property

Horror as teenager’s dead body is found sticking out of a clothes donation box in southern Spain

THE body of a young man has been found sticking out of a clothing donation box in southern Spain. The grisly discovery was made by a passerby in Murcia, who saw the

9 Feb, 2024 @ 06:31

Lead·Murcia

Property fraudsters who swindled dozens of British families in southern Spain LOSE appeals against their jail terms

MURCIA’S Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal by two men behind the Trampolin Hills housing development who were convicted of fraud in November 2021. Antonio Martinez Gonzalez- known as ‘El Melonero’-

5 Feb, 2024 @ 13:39

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Phones are now banned in schools across NINE regions in Spain – after two more join the crackdown

SPAIN’S Murcia region has banned schoolchildren from switching on their mobile phones in classrooms with other areas of the country only allowing them for emergency reasons. Catalunya has also decided to implement

31 Jan, 2024 @ 16:12

Catalunya·Lead·Murcia·National News·Other News

Squatter-removal firm accused of violent assault on residents they had no right to evict in Spain's Murcia|

Squatter removers are accused of strong-arm tactics after ‘assaulting tenants’ and ‘robbing homes’ in southern Spain

POLICE are investigating eight employees of an unnamed company that evicts squatters for assaulting tenants of a dozen homes in the Murcia district of La Alberca. The men have been interviewed by

27 Jan, 2024 @ 10:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

The curious history of Spain’s free and ‘illegal’ raves: How thousands turn up to hippy-style festivals around the country each year in a movement echoing England’s 1990s subculture

HOW did free and ‘illegal’ raves begin? The Olive Press traces back the history of the curious parties to 1990s England. They swooped down on southern Spain en masse and ended up

27 Jan, 2024 @ 07:00

Andalucia·La Cultura·Lead·Murcia·Other News

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of an expat boy, 15, who vanished while canoeing in Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon two weeks ago – as his mother insists he is still alive

THE mother of a teenager who went missing on January 5 when he was out in a stolen canoe on the Mar Menor lagoon, has said that she believes he is still

22 Jan, 2024 @ 16:15

Lead·Mar Menor·Murcia

Deadly nightclub fire that killed 13 in Spain’s Murcia was caused by negligent use of spark machine, say police

A DEADLY nightclub fire in Spain’s Murcia that killed 13 people on October 1, 2023 was caused ‘accidently’ due to ‘negligence’ in the use of a spark machine inside the venue. That’s

18 Jan, 2024 @ 14:40

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Other News

ITragic deaths in Murcia nightclub fire prompts licence checks across Spain

Emergency exits in nightclub where 13 died in Spain’s Murcia were closed with PADLOCKS

THE EMERGENCY exits at the Teatre and Fonda Milagros nightclubs in the Spanish city of Murcia were closed with padlocks on the night that a deadly blaze broke out there, leaving 13

19 Dec, 2023 @ 09:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Murcia

Almost 40,000 ecstasy tablets are found stashed in car en route to Spain’s Murcia

TWO MEN transporting 37,950 ecstasy pills with a €433,000 retail value from France to the Murcia region have been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Alicante. Two motor-bike patrol police officers noticed

10 Nov, 2023 @ 14:15

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Valencian Community

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