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WATCH: ‘Drunk’ British tourists in Mallorca start a brawl against waiters and POLICE after being told to stop throwing trash into the sea: Eight are arrested

EIGHT British tourists have been arrested after starting a massive brawl at a beach club in Mallorca. The ‘drunk’ holidaymakers reportedly clashed with other customers

30 May, 2024 @ 15:38

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

WATCH: British pub and its workers ‘are attacked by Moroccan men’ on Spain’s Costa Brava

THIS is the moment a British pub and its workers were attacked by a group of men on the Costa Brava. Video footage shared online

30 May, 2024 @ 15:07

Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Popular pool club is raided by armed police in Marbella: Cops in riot gear move through groups of tourists at Ocean Club ‘in operation against organised crime’

COPS in riot gear stormed Marbella’s popular Ocean Club as part of an ‘operation against organised crime,’ as armed police move through groups of tourists.

29 May, 2024 @ 12:44

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Mallorca beach club where four people died after its roof caved in ‘did not have correct licences’

THE beach club restaurant in Palma de Mallorca that suddenly collapsed last week killing four people did not have a licence for the area that

28 May, 2024 @ 12:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Revealed: How the Chinese mafia in Spain ‘trafficked HUNDREDS of people and drugs into Britain via Gibraltar’

A CHINESE mafia is suspected to have made profits of a million euros by trafficking hundreds of their fellow countrymen into Spain, only to then

28 May, 2024 @ 12:05

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

Shooting in Estepona: Victim, 33, is left with a bullet wound after attack in an urbanisation

AN investigation has been opened in Spain’s Estepona after a shooting took place in the early hours of Saturday morning. One man, aged 33, was

27 May, 2024 @ 11:19

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

Two Brits stand trial over alleged Benidorm group sex attack

British man is placed in a chokehold and robbed in Benidorm: Thugs leave elderly victim with a head injury

AN ELDERLY British man was robbed after being placed into a chokehold on a busy Benidorm street in broad daylight. Two plain-clothed Policia Nacional officers

27 May, 2024 @ 10:02

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

Warning for tourists visiting Spain: Mafia gangs are targeting luxury watch owners on the Costa del Sol – this is who is most at risk

TOURISTS and expats on the Costa del Sol have been warned of a rise in thieves targeting luxury watch owners. In Marbella there have been

26 May, 2024 @ 12:18

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Two wedding guests arrested after firework sets off blaze that destroyed 17 cars and damaged many others on Spain's Costa Blanca

Wedding guests arrested after firework sets off blaze destroying 17 cars and damaging many others on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TWO wedding guests have been arrested after setting off fireworks that caused a blaze which destroyed 17 cars and damaged 17 others in Javea last

24 May, 2024 @ 18:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Violence erupts over Louis Vuitton fashion show in Spain: Protesters clash with police after iconic Barcelona park is forced to close

VIOLENCE broke out between protestors and police outside one of Barcelona’s most iconic tourist attractions on Thursday as locals rallied against the disruption caused by

24 May, 2024 @ 12:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Environment·La Cultura·Lead

Sex exploitation gang enjoyed a luxury lifestyle as 10 victims were treated as slaves on Spain's Costa Blanca

Sex exploitation gang enjoyed luxury lifestyle with high-end homes and cars while 10 victims were treated as slaves on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ELCHE sex exploitation gang has been busted by the Policia Nacional with 10 female victims rescued. The women had vulnerable backgrounds and travelled from

23 May, 2024 @ 18:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Hit and run driver with extensive criminal record including hate offences, turns himself in four days after running over a boy on a pedestrian crossing in Spain's Valencia

Hit and run suspect with extensive criminal record surrenders- four days after young boy is seriously injured on pedestrian crossing in Spain’s Valencia

A MOTORIST sought after a boy was run over on a Valencia pedestrian crossing, has handed himself into the police four days after the incident.

23 May, 2024 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Police recover Francis Bacon painting worth €5 million stolen from Madrid home in 2015

THE Policia Nacional has recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen in a mass heist from a Madrid

23 May, 2024 @ 17:15

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead

Judge in Spain shelves case against riot police officers who fired projectile that caused a young woman to lose an eye: ‘She must bear the consequences,’ he rules

A JUDGE in Spain has shelved a case that had been brought against three riot police officers in Barcelona, after they fired projectiles during disturbances

23 May, 2024 @ 16:33

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Man takes his own life with a shotgun in Estepona just days after fatally hitting an elderly woman with his car following ‘a couple of beers’

A MAN in Estepona has reportedly taken his own life a week after he ran over and killed an elderly lady on a zebra crossing.

23 May, 2024 @ 16:01

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

British expat, 23, who ‘stabbed a man and sliced his femoral artery during a brawl in Benalmadena’ is held in prison for ‘attempted murder’

A BRITISH man is being held in prison for allegedly trying to stab a man to death in Benalmadena. The Policia Nacional said the 23-year-old

23 May, 2024 @ 12:33

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead

Cause of death revealed for last suspected victim of infamous serial killer in Spain

Serial killer who murdered British and German tourists in southern Spain is being investigated over a missing woman on the Costa Blanca

A SERIAL killer has been linked to the disappearance of a woman in Valencia province last summer. Jose Jurado Montilla, or Dinamita Montilla, as he

23 May, 2024 @ 11:39

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain's crime rate falls but serious sexual offences and attempted murder cases rise

Suspected British drug dealer faces extradition after being arrested in Spain’s Tenerife

A BRITISH fugitive who fled to Tenerife to evade drug charges has been arrested by the Policia Nacional. An International Arrest Warrant was issued for

22 May, 2024 @ 18:30

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

True crime story of mother who burned daughter's rapist to death is featured in new TV documentary in Spain

True crime story of an Alicante mother who ‘burned daughter’s rapist to death’ is subject of new TV documentary series in Spain

A REVENGE killing by an Alicante province mother on the man who raped her daughter is the subject of a new TV documentary series called

22 May, 2024 @ 15:01

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Chicken farm owners made 10,000 litres of bogus hand sanitising gel and sold it during early days of Covid-19 pandemic in Spain

TWO Galician businessmen have escaped imprisonment after admitting to producing 10,000 litres of bogus hydroalcoholic gel which was sold to hospitals and pharmacies. Prosecutors wanted

22 May, 2024 @ 13:48

Coronavirus·Crime & Law·Lead

British expats who ‘ran a prostitution ring in Spain’ will be extradited to the UK – as more details of their alleged escort empire emerge

A BRITISH couple who were arrested for allegedly running a UK prostitution ring will be extradited from Spain by the National Court. They were previously

21 May, 2024 @ 18:38

Crime & Law·Lead

Gunman in Marbella was stopped ‘moments before carrying out assassination’, say police

A GUNMAN was stopped just moments before carrying out a hit in Marbella, police have revealed. According to Policia Nacional, the suspect, who was armed

21 May, 2024 @ 14:41

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

Fake plumber pulls out gun and assaults elderly couple during failed eviction bid at Valencia home

Hooded men threaten to kill farmer but just get olive oil and €120 in cash after fruitless raid in Spain’s Alicante

TWO hooded men stormed an Alicante area finca and threatened to kill the farmer if he didn’t hand over all of his money. The Spanish

21 May, 2024 @ 14:00

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Spanish photographer and guide is killed during attack while filming a tribe in Africa: Tributes pour in for Toni Espadas

A SPANISH photographer and tour guide has been killed whilst filming a TV show with a tribe in Ethiopia. Tributes have poured in for Toni

21 May, 2024 @ 13:03

Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

British teenager ‘is raped in the street in Spain’s Mallorca while the attacker’s two friends watched’

A MALLORCA bar manager has been arrested for the alleged rape of a British teenage tourist on Friday. Two of the suspect’s friends are being

20 May, 2024 @ 17:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

EXCLUSIVE: As the trial of Maddie suspect Christian Brueckner re-starts – and she would have been 21 this month – JON CLARKE traces his suspicious movements through Spain and Portugal in May 2007

MADELEINE McCann suspect Christian Brueckner stayed in at least half a dozen places around the Algarve and Spain in the month before the British toddler

20 May, 2024 @ 14:32

Crime & Law·Lead

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