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Police launch awareness campaign to tackle ‘affectionate thieves’ epidemic in Spain’s Andalucia

POLICIA Nacional have launched a campaign to tackle a growing epidemic of ‘affectionate’ pickpockets in Andalucia. The police force will be holding talks across public

12 Nov, 2019 @ 12:53

Crime & Law·Lead

‘Fake bus driver’ who made €3.2 million from tourists and kids on Costa del Sol and across Spain arrested and has his 19 buses seized

Police located the illegal buses in areas of Spain as far-flung as Madrid, Toledo, Valencia, Malaga, Almeria and Zaragoza

12 Nov, 2019 @ 12:09

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

OPINION: Diners at THIS restaurant in Spain knew about its underwhelming food, but not about its ‘slave labour’ and owner’s arrest

Why then did it take until just over a month ago for someone to finally tip off police?

10 Nov, 2019 @ 13:45

Crime & Law·Mallorca·Opinion

REVEALED: This is the restaurant in British tourist hotspot in Spain accused of treating staff ‘like slaves’ with €2.80 per hour salaries

A police statement said staff were forced to sign off their criminally-low payslips or face the threat of being sacked

10 Nov, 2019 @ 11:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

EXCLUSIVE: Spain green group demands answers after rabbit decapitated and animals abused in THIS Costa del Sol park

Expats were quick to branded the unknown perpetrators as ‘pure evil’

9 Nov, 2019 @ 17:50

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

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Shocked beach-goers watch as drug boat carrying migrants runs ashore on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Authorities have seized the boat.

8 Nov, 2019 @ 16:06

Crime & Law·Lead

Dad arrested after ‘locking screaming daughters in office’ for THREE DAYS before police broke down door near Spain’s Costa Blanca

Police broke down the front door of the establishment, before rescuing the ‘screaming’ girls and placing them in the care of their mother

8 Nov, 2019 @ 13:29

Crime & Law·Lead

Expat priest ‘raped poverty-stricken girl’ INSIDE Evangelical church in Spain’s Madrid and ‘gave her €50 each time for her silence’ while threatening to release video of abuse if she told police

A PRIEST has been arrested after allegedly sexually abusing a 17-year-old church-goer. The 49-year-old allegedly took advantage of the girl, knowing her family were extremely

8 Nov, 2019 @ 12:00

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

Dad who suffocated baby while in bed with deaf and mute mum near Spain’s Costa del Sol blamed the ‘coming apocalypse’ and said he was ordered by text to do it

A MENTALLY ill father has been sentenced to 23 years after suffocating his baby son. The unnamed man was found guilty by a jury in

8 Nov, 2019 @ 09:00

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

Un Britanico Ebrio Intenta Atropellar A Una Embarazada En La Linea

Middle-aged British expat swerves car at pregnant woman during drug-fuelled rampage in Spain’s Andalucia

He tested positive for cannabis and amphetamines at the police station.

7 Nov, 2019 @ 12:11

Crime & Law·Lead

Sadistic expat who raped his girlfriend as ‘punishment’ during two day TORTURE spree in Spain’s Mallorca is jailed

“He told her he didn’t care whether he had to kill her and covered her mouth with tape.”

6 Nov, 2019 @ 18:46

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Gibraltar murder suspect accused of butchering wife and knifing himself as six-year-old daughter watched, gets retrial

“Daddy stabbed mummy, then daddy stabbed himself”

6 Nov, 2019 @ 14:48

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

Paedo pensioner, 79, caged after masturbating while ‘staring lustfully’ at children in nursery playground in Spain’s Almeria

AN alleged paedo pensioner has been arrested for touching and exposing himself in front of minors in Almeria. The 79-year-old had been hanging around the

6 Nov, 2019 @ 11:44

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead

Mystery as two dead and burned bodies found in abandoned home in Spain

TWO dead bodies have been found in an abandoned home in central Spain. The gruesome discovery was made in a property in Quintanar de la

6 Nov, 2019 @ 11:08

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

WATCH: Family attacks man at checkout of Supersol on Spain’s Costa del Sol screaming ‘we will kill you’ as his pregnant wife and daughter watch in horror

The alleged aggressor began throwing punches over what seemed to be a pre-existing feud

6 Nov, 2019 @ 01:26

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Cocky French drug trafficker arrested thanks to his dodgy parking on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A COCKY French fugitive has been captured on the Costa del Sol thanks to his dodgy parking. The 25-year-old was cuffed after he waltzed into

5 Nov, 2019 @ 13:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Vile thug severs spinal cord of man outside nightclub in Spain’s Sevilla on FIRST DAY out of prison

A GANG leader had been out of prison for less than 24 hours when he launched a vicious attack outside a nightclub in Andalucia. Known

5 Nov, 2019 @ 13:24

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

“I’M GAY” Man who slit ex-partner’s throat in Denia tells court they never had a relationship and can’t remember murdering her in her sleep

THE Russian man who allegedly slit his his ex-partner’s in Denia last month has told a judge he is ‘gay’ and ‘can’t remember’ committing the

5 Nov, 2019 @ 13:19

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

‘PURE EVIL’: Fears of psychopath in British expat hotspot after decapitated bunny and injured animals found in popular park on Spain’s Costa del Sol (WARNING: Distressing image)

British expats branded the yet unknown sicko as 'pure evil'

4 Nov, 2019 @ 14:13

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Nightclub which ‘launders money for the Irish Kinahan drug cartel’ reportedly at centre of date rape attacks probe on Spain’s Costa del Sol

A MARBELLA nightclub allegedly used by the Irish mafia as a money laundering front is reportedly at the centre of a series of drug rape

4 Nov, 2019 @ 13:44

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Squatters who broke into 94-year-old woman’s house while she visited her ill sister forced out after hundreds of angry neighbours descend on property in northern Spain

A FAMILY of four squatters have been forced out after hundreds of angry residents descended on the house of a 94-year-old woman in Portugalete, in

4 Nov, 2019 @ 12:16

Crime & Law·Lead

Halloween gang of over 100 gun-wielding masked youths stopped by Police in Spain’s Malaga

Over 100 youths gathered in the city’s Teatinos district intending to run rampage, up-tipping cars.

4 Nov, 2019 @ 11:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Seven members of luxury expat car gang arrested in Spain’s Malaga

The criminals, aged between 21 and 61, were from Germany, Italy, Romania and Algeria.

4 Nov, 2019 @ 10:59

Crime & Law·Lead

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Six examiners on Benidorm’s Policía Local selection board to appear in court after allegedly leaking exam answers to candidates

SIX examiners on Benidorm’s Policía Local selection board are under investigation after one candidate spotted other aspirants cheating on a written exam. The candidate made

4 Nov, 2019 @ 08:35

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Superstar’ Guardia Civil dog Elton given national award at animal protection summit – read here the major crimes he worked on

GUARDIA CIVIL’S ‘superstar’ dog Elton has been awarded a national distinction for his service in the force at an animal protection summit last month. The

1 Nov, 2019 @ 18:33

Crime & Law·Environment·Lead

SMOKED OUT: Blaze at cannabis farm in Costa Blanca urbanisation leads to arrest of 48-year-old British mastermind

A BLAZE at a cannabis farm installed in a Costa Blanca urbanisation has led to the arrest of a 48-year-old British behind a string of

1 Nov, 2019 @ 16:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

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