crime & law

Revealed: How key boxes for tourist flats and Airbnbs became the latest tool for Malaga’s drug dealers

A DRUG ring has been busted in Andalucia for utilizing tourist flat apartment key lockboxes to exchange illegal substances. Spain’s Policia Nacional have uncovered a

21 Jul, 2026 @ 17:57

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Brawls and tension between Barcelona’s Pakistani and Algerian communities in El Raval force police to set up summer check point

CATALUNYA police have extended a 10-day increased presence to a full summer post to prevent violent crimes among Raval neighbourhood members. Barcelona’s police presence has

26 Jun, 2026 @ 13:47

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

‘Cocky’ driver injures two Malaga police officers arresting him for refusing to move his double-parked car blocking a fire engine attending an apartment alarm

An ARROGANT driver who parked unlawfully and blocked fire responders has been arrested after ignoring the authorities and causing injuries from being tackled to the

26 Jun, 2026 @ 12:41

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: Police arrest ‘young’ counterfeiter in Malaga selling fake €50 and €100 notes to buyers in Germany through the dark web

A FAKE cash enterprise in the Costa del Sol has been shut down for supplying falsified euros across Europe. Authorities have arrested an individual in

29 Apr, 2026 @ 17:31

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

WATCH: Youths ‘doing wheelies and drifts’ at an illegal motorcycle rally in southern Spain attack police with rocks when they come to break it up

A TEENAGER has been arrested for attacking police who came to shut down an illegal motorcycle rally with rocks. The Guardia Civil has arrested the

24 Mar, 2026 @ 15:15

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

Spaniards abroad: Four Spanish graffiti artists are locked up in Poland for vandalising metro

FOUR Spanish tourists were arrested in Poland and are now facing two months of pre-trial detention after getting caught vandalising a local metro. A group

18 Mar, 2026 @ 16:50

Crime & Law·International Affairs·Lead

Locals at war with upmarket polo club and its aristocratic owner for ‘plundering water’ and ‘driving his Mini Cooper at horse riders’ on Spain’s Costa de la Luz

A NEW battle of Trafalgar is brewing between the aristocratic owner of an exclusive polo club and locals who insist his property is illegally syphoning

23 Feb, 2026 @ 15:00

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Environment·Lead

Digital sex crimes against children increase in Spain, new report finds

REPORTS of digital sexual abuse against minors in Spain have increased by 13% in just two years, according to a new analysis published by Save

29 Jan, 2026 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead

Revealed: The disturbing history of the Swedish rapper shot dead in Marbella in revenge killing

THE victim of a grisly shooting that shook Marbella this weekend has been identified as a Swedish rapper with a violent past and suspected links

5 Oct, 2025 @ 18:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella

‘We live in a world where crime knows no borders’: Costa del Sol town demands more police to combat mafia wars

THE mayor of Fuengirola has asked for more police units and assistance from the federal government, following a shooting in a bar on the promenade

3 Jun, 2025 @ 19:00

Crime & Law·Lead

Expert warns ‘it’s a disgrace that squatting is great business’ as scourge rises 7% in Spain

SQUATTING continues to rise all over Spain, with a 7% increase in all cases last year. The most shocking thing is perhaps the fact that

3 Jun, 2025 @ 17:30

Crime & Law·Lead

Horror in Mijas: Thugs beat up woman in her 80s while robbing her home

‘Escape room’ horror in Spain: Woman was ‘tied up, doused in petrol and set alight’ in macabre game gone wrong

THREE defendants face a two-year prison sentence after a woman was seriously burned after being sprayed with gasoline in a sadistic game. The events date

2 Jun, 2025 @ 12:45

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain and Ecuador both seek extradition of Albanian drug lord who owned luxury villas in the Costa del Sol

ECUADOR and Spain are set to engage in a legal contest over the extradition of Dritan Gjika, the alleged leader of an Albanian drug trafficking

28 May, 2025 @ 16:30

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead

Search is underway after 25-year-old Brit mysteriously disappeared near Girona

A SEARCH is underway for a 25-year-old British man who has seemingly disappeared after no one heard from him again for over a month. On

23 May, 2025 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead

Costa Blanca Killer Who Claimed He Was 'possessed' Gets Life For Stabbing Mother 69 Times At Their Home In Spain

Spanish man stabs traveller in the neck at Mallorca airport

A HOMELESS Spaniard has been arrested after stabbing another Spaniard in the neck at Mallorca airport. The brutal incident unfolded at Son Sant Joan Airport

22 May, 2025 @ 11:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Danish man wanted for sexual assault in Middle East nabbed in Spain as he boards ferry to Morocco

OFFICERS of the Policia Nacional have arrested a Danish man in the port of Tarifa when he tried to enter Spain after taking a ferry

22 May, 2025 @ 11:30

Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Diplomatic storm after Spanish police beat group of Colombians in Valencia

A DIPLOMATIC storm has been brewing after a video appeared showing Spanish police officers beating a group of Colombian migrants with their batons. “I demand

21 May, 2025 @ 13:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Video

Spain's top court orders end of height discrimination against female police force recruits

Dutch tourist is attacked and robbed by a man and two women while cleaning his car in southern Spain

A DUTCH man was assaulted and robbed last Wednesday in Algeciras in a parking lot behind the San Bernardo bus station. The victim was cleaning

20 May, 2025 @ 11:05

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

PSpanish police officer is arrested 'for groping a young woman's buttocks' at the Malaga feria

Spanish police make huge haul of contraband tobacco ‘smuggled in from Gibraltar’

MORE than 22,000 packs of unmarked tobacco have been seized by the Guardia Civil during a major anti-smuggling operation in the municipality of Los Barrios,

19 May, 2025 @ 16:00

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

WATCH: TikToker faces €200k fine for hurling rock into ravine in Spanish national park

A YOUNG man is facing a €200k fine after he threw a large rock down a ravine in Picos de Europa national park, in the

16 May, 2025 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Lead

The rising murder and kidnapping rate in Spain’s Malaga blamed on ‘more and better weapons’

IN the first quarter of 2025, the Province of Malaga has seen six intentional homicides, according to an announcement of the Ministry of the Interior.

15 May, 2025 @ 13:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Body of man, 30, discovered with ‘multiple stab wounds’ near Costa del Sol village

THE body of a man that has been discovered on Monday afternoon has multiple stab wounds in the chest, presumably from a knife. The body

14 May, 2025 @ 13:30

Crime & Law·Lead

'Police arrest woman on Madrid airport plane after stealing coat at security control

Body found in southern Spain may be fugitive husband who murdered wife

LOCAL police in Spain have found the body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition hanging from a tree on Monday. Police suspect

14 May, 2025 @ 12:15

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

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

WATCH: Daylight shootout in Malaga car park leaves one wounded

A SHOOTING took place in the parking lot of a Lidl supermarket in Malaga city, leaving one person injured with a gunshot wound in the

12 May, 2025 @ 11:31

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Horror in the Canary Islands: Remains of dismembered Colombian woman found on beach

A BAR owner has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman’s dismembered body was found on a popular tourist beach in Gran Canaria.

8 May, 2025 @ 16:59

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Police outrage as Spain rules possessing or taking drugs in a parked vehicle ‘is not to be punished’

THE Spanish Secretary of State issued an instruction to the Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil, stating that the consumption of drugs in a parked vehicle

8 May, 2025 @ 11:24

Crime & Law·Lead

Revealed: How key boxes for tourist flats and Airbnbs became the latest tool for Malaga’s drug dealers

Brawls and tension between Barcelona’s Pakistani and Algerian communities in El Raval force police to set up summer check point

‘Cocky’ driver injures two Malaga police officers arresting him for refusing to move his double-parked car blocking a fire engine attending an apartment alarm

WATCH: Police arrest ‘young’ counterfeiter in Malaga selling fake €50 and €100 notes to buyers in Germany through the dark web

WATCH: Youths ‘doing wheelies and drifts’ at an illegal motorcycle rally in southern Spain attack police with rocks when they come to break it up

Spaniards abroad: Four Spanish graffiti artists are locked up in Poland for vandalising metro

Locals at war with upmarket polo club and its aristocratic owner for ‘plundering water’ and ‘driving his Mini Cooper at horse riders’ on Spain’s Costa de la Luz

Digital sex crimes against children increase in Spain, new report finds

Revealed: The disturbing history of the Swedish rapper shot dead in Marbella in revenge killing

‘We live in a world where crime knows no borders’: Costa del Sol town demands more police to combat mafia wars

Expert warns ‘it’s a disgrace that squatting is great business’ as scourge rises 7% in Spain

‘Escape room’ horror in Spain: Woman was ‘tied up, doused in petrol and set alight’ in macabre game gone wrong

Spain and Ecuador both seek extradition of Albanian drug lord who owned luxury villas in the Costa del Sol

Search is underway after 25-year-old Brit mysteriously disappeared near Girona

Spanish man stabs traveller in the neck at Mallorca airport

Danish man wanted for sexual assault in Middle East nabbed in Spain as he boards ferry to Morocco

WATCH: Diplomatic storm after Spanish police beat group of Colombians in Valencia

Dutch tourist is attacked and robbed by a man and two women while cleaning his car in southern Spain

Spanish police make huge haul of contraband tobacco ‘smuggled in from Gibraltar’

WATCH: TikToker faces €200k fine for hurling rock into ravine in Spanish national park

The rising murder and kidnapping rate in Spain’s Malaga blamed on ‘more and better weapons’

Body of man, 30, discovered with ‘multiple stab wounds’ near Costa del Sol village

Body found in southern Spain may be fugitive husband who murdered wife

WATCH: Daylight shootout in Malaga car park leaves one wounded

Horror in the Canary Islands: Remains of dismembered Colombian woman found on beach

Police outrage as Spain rules possessing or taking drugs in a parked vehicle ‘is not to be punished’

Suspect in murder of Hungarian woman in Benahavis attempts to slit his own throat as Guardia Civil make arrest

Barcelona 24-hour supermarkets open ’round the clock’ are fronts for human trafficking, police say

The lure of Ceuta: The contested land young men die to reach and Spain sends its army to Africa to stop

Inside the secrets of Alicante’s remarkable ‘Venus’ head – which may just be the city’s greatest Roman treasure

Gibraltar airport eyes four million people catchment zone and battles Malaga for Costa del Sol passengers and routes

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