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Illegal 52 Year Occupier Of Iconic Benidorm Island On Spain S Costa Blanca Has To Close Two Tourist Boat Trip Offices In Resort

Court bans boat trips to Benidorm Island run by ‘corrupt’ family granted concessions during Francoist Spain

FRANCO’S legacy may have been dismantled with his high-profile exhumation last October, but in Benidorm a 52-year battle with the remnants of his dictatorship is

3 Jul, 2020 @ 18:23

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Money laundering raids carried out in Gibraltar after cross-border drugs op

SIX raids on residential addresses on the Rock were carried out this week by the money laundering investigation unit of the Royal Gibraltar Police.

2 Jul, 2020 @ 16:58

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

‘LUCKY’ CATCH: Two explosive devices found by fishermen off coast of Spain’s Balearic Islands

The Guardia Civil had been notified about two different explosive devices laid on the seabed this week

2 Jul, 2020 @ 16:57

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Paedophile crimes in Spain increase by 500% during coronavirus lockdown as Sevilla man caged for selling child porn

The suspect was using an instant messaging app to sell the porn, charging other paedophiles up to €900 per file

2 Jul, 2020 @ 16:40

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Gang of British retirees on Spain’s Costa del Sol arrested for selling fake drugs meant to help with erectile dysfunction

A GANG of British and American retirees has been arrested on the Costa del Sol for trafficking fake drugs that were meant to help with

1 Jul, 2020 @ 19:07

Crime & Law·Health·Lead·Malaga

LGBTQ flag on Spanish town hall building set on fire by homophobes

A PRIDE flag hanging from a town hall in Castilla-La Mancha has been set on fire by vandals.

30 Jun, 2020 @ 18:32

Crime & Law·Lead

Shame Of Guardia Civil Agent In Spain Who Used Spy Camera To Watch Woman In Shower

Guardia Civil agent gets 8-months jail after taking ‘garden peppers’ to woman’s house and installing secret camera in her bathroom

A GUARDIA Civil agent has been suspended for 15 months after putting a spy camera into a shower to record images of a naked woman.

30 Jun, 2020 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

WATCH: Safe-crackers caught with thermal lances and oxy-acetylene torches in Policia Nacional swoop after office robbing spree

A TRAVELLING gang of safe robbers have been caught in a Policia Nacional swoop. Agents broke up the transient group of six dangerous criminals who

30 Jun, 2020 @ 18:20

Crime & Law

Three women end up in hospital after fight broke out in Zara fitting room in Spain

THREE women have ended up in hospital, after a fight took place in a Zara fitting room in Galicia.

29 Jun, 2020 @ 15:22

Crime & Law·Lead

Five arrested in Alicante for online villa rental fraud that netted €250,000

FIVE have been arrested in Spain’s Alicante after conning holidaymakers via fake villa rental websites to the tune of €250,000. The fraudsters reeled in victims

29 Jun, 2020 @ 13:52

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Underage Driver Caught Deputising For Drunk Dad In Beach Resort On Spain S Costa Blanca

16-year-old son caught driving drunk dad home in Spain’s Elche – both face charges

A FATHER and son are facing charges in Elche after Guardia Civil caught the 16-year-old minor behind the wheel next to his horrendously drunk dad.

29 Jun, 2020 @ 13:19

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Man arrested in Spain’s Malaga for allegedly defrauding his elderly neighbour who he helped care for

A MAN has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Malaga province for allegedly defrauding his elderly neighbour who he helped care for.

28 Jun, 2020 @ 16:58

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Six men going on trial in Spain’s Malaga for killing a man who supposedly stole their rooster used for illegal cock fights

SIX men will be going on trial tomorrow in Malaga province, for the murder of a man who had supposedly stolen their rooster.

28 Jun, 2020 @ 16:11

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

EXPLAINER: How to use the law in Spain against online trolls

IT is hard to accept that the internet, from which we derive so much benefit, should be so densely populated by individuals (‘trolls’) who deliberately

28 Jun, 2020 @ 11:00

Antonio Flores: Legal Problems·Crime & Law

MADDIE EXCLUSIVE: DNA clues destroyed by Brits in McCann case as Portuguese media finally takes shambolic police investigation to task

A BRITISH expat has admitted to unwittingly destroying all DNA evidence linked to a home Maddie McCann suspect Christian Brueckner rented for years on the

27 Jun, 2020 @ 21:11

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

WATCH: Grenade launcher and other weapons of war seized as ‘largest’ arms smuggling racket dismantled – arrests in 15 Spanish provinces

WEAPONS of war, explosives and firearms have been seized in a nationwide swoop with 21 arrests. Policia Nacional worked with a number of other law

26 Jun, 2020 @ 19:03

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News

Goldfinches See Freedom On Costa Blanca After Illegal Trappers Get Arrested

23 goldfinches released into wild by Guardia Civil after arrest of two trappers in Spain’s Torrevieja

TWO men have been arrested for illegally capturing goldfinch birds in the San Miguel de Salinas area. Guardia Civil agents from Torrevieja stopped the men’s

26 Jun, 2020 @ 18:55

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Environment

Guardia Civil arrests man in Spain’s Andalucia for creating fake identity in order to threaten Mayor

THE Guardia Civil has been investigating a man in Andalucia for creating a fake identity in order to threaten the Mayor of his town.

26 Jun, 2020 @ 16:20

Crime & Law·Jaen·Lead

Unpaid Fruit Sees Italian Man Arrested In Spain S Almeria For Scamming Costa Blanca Farmers In Money Laundering Probe

Two arrested for scamming €143,000 from small-scale orange farmers in Spain’s Alicante

TWO men have been arrested for scamming small-scale Costa Blanca fruit farmers to the tune of €143,000. The con involved the duo buttering up a

26 Jun, 2020 @ 11:40

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Pregnant €20,000 horse stabbed and dismembered in Spain’s Malaga

A PREGNANT horse has been killed and dismembered in a shocking attack in Malaga. Police are investigating the gruesome crime that took place yesterday on

26 Jun, 2020 @ 10:19

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

British man and Spaniards carrying hash and cocaine arrested at Marbella police roadblocks as drug crime returns to Spain’s Costa del Sol

A BRITISH national and two Spaniards have been arrested in Marbella after being caught with hash and cocaine. The trio, who are understood to have

25 Jun, 2020 @ 15:37

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: Drug kingpin known as ‘Messi of hash’ arrested while eating lunch with family in Spain’s Andalucia

THE boss of one of Andalucia’s biggest drug gangs, known as the ‘Messi of hashish’, has been arrested. Named only as ‘Jesus H’, police arrested

25 Jun, 2020 @ 09:34

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

LGBTQ: Spanish Government to create law protecting transgender people in Spain

THE Spanish Government has pledged to create a law protecting transgender people. “This Government supports the people of the LGTBI collective with all its letters,”

25 Jun, 2020 @ 08:15

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

‘SPAIN’S GEORGE FLOYD’: Video of young black man’s death in custody at hands of SIX officers sparks outrage

A LEAKED video showing the death of an 18-year-old Moroccan teenager in care has raised questions over Spain’s youth detention system. The family of Iliass

25 Jun, 2020 @ 07:36

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead·National News