Tag: illegal
31 people arrested at Spanish-French border for travelling with false PCRs
SPANISH Policia Nacional have arrested 31 Romanian citizens on the Spanish-French border in the town of La Junquera, in Girona province, for travelling with...
IN PICS: Illegal TV app showing Premier League football with 100 million users taken down after raids in Spain...
AN ILLEGAL TV app that was streaming European football, other TV channels and videos has been taken down in Spain. Policia Nacional and Europol dismantled...
Notorious Algarrobico Hotel illegally built in natural Park in Southern Spain ‘to be demolished’
THE notorious Algarrobico Hotel in Almeria may finally be demolished 14 years after construction was halted. Money has been set aside in the preliminary 2021...
Illegal cigarette factories which churned out 18,000 fags per MINUTE dismantled in Spain’s Madrid and Costa Blanca
A total of 38 people were arrested, believed to be the core of a ‘highly specialised organisation’ run by Bulgarians
British expats in Spain left without TV and movies as police bust €15 million illegal streaming network
UNSUSPECTING British expats in Spain have been left without their favourite TV and movie channels after police busted a €15 million network of illegal...
Spain’s Guardia Civil seize 26,000 illegal cigarette packets in Malaga province
TENS of thousands of cigarette packets have been seized by the Guardia Civil in the province of Malaga.
Two businessmen jailed for two years for illegally extracting water from Spain’s Donana National Park
TWO businessmen who illegally extracted water from Donana National Park have been jailed for two years.
Gibraltar announces abortion referendum and plans to give 16-year-olds a vote
Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, who was recently elected for a third successive term in office, called the move a ‘priority’
Professional squatters have found new means of bypassing new laws, and everyone is passing the buck, writes Jacque Talbot
Despite the seemingly random trail of destruction they leave behind, squatting has now become a sophisticated operation reenforced by ringleaders with up-to-date knowledge of the legal system.
Police ramp up training to deal with THOUSANDS of illegal vehicles roaming the streets of Malaga
The course, held in Torremolinos, has been showing officers how to recognise illegal vehicles.
Police arrest 73 ravers at illegal party in Spain’s Ibiza as revellers hit officers with iron bars and rocks
Meanwhile a Spanish woman, 27, and Italian man, 30, were both hospitalised with broken bones
WATCH: Shocking moment street seller stabs police chief on beach in front of tourists in Spain’s Andalucia
Other officers and a holidaymaker then pounced on the man, before he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
Spain’s Government SEIZES former dictator General Franco’s €5 million summer palace over its ‘fraudulent’ sale
It comes as Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE administration has pushed on with a plan to exhume the remains of the Fascist dictator
Police probe in Spain’s Andalucia after ILLEGAL zoo with turtles, ostriches and porcupines BUSTED
It comes after cops found fake permits for at least 14 animals at facilities in Villafranca de los Barros in February
SNIFFED OUT: Group in Spain fined €86,000 for cooking stew of protected birds after police smelt it from cliff
The group’s lawyers claimed the meat was lamb, but judges said that defence was ‘not at all credible’
Seven arrested on Costa del Sol and in Barcelona as police bust drug gang who sold cannabis using cryptocurrencies
Police also seized €2,000 in cash and €115,000 in computer equipment used for managing cryptocurrencies
FISHY BUSINESS: Spain’s Guardia Civil seize illegally caught 180kg bluefin tuna in Marbella
It is a crime to catch, transport and market seafood without having documents and labels to trace the product
16 arrested in southern Spain for building ILLEGAL luxury drug compound with high walls and swimming pools
POLICE have arrested 16 people who illegally built 14 luxury villas with swimming pools in La Linea. Investigators believe the 11,000 square metre estate in...
EU vice president labels Gibraltarians ‘monkeys’ and praises Spain’s illegal warship ‘invasion’ of British waters
The Brussels MEP labelled Gibraltarians 'laughing monkeys' in an explosive Twitter thread, which he swiftly deleted
No-deal Brexit could make pension payouts to British expats living in Spain ‘illegal’
The Association of British Insurers claims expats living in the EU ‘might find that they couldn’t be paid their pension'
Four out of five beach bars on Costa del Sol are illegal reveals new study
Only 76 of the 348 beach bars on Malaga's coastline have their papers
Spain among biggest buyers of illegally trafficked animals
The WWF have called on the Spanish government to prioritise the issue and launched the campaign ‘Stop Species Trafficking’
Three hundred illegal wells shut down in Donana in bid to stop landowners draining wetlands
Junta officials swooped on the sites which unscrupulous parties had been using to tap an aquifer on which the Sevilla and Huelva-based national park is dependent
New bid to finally solve Marbella’s illegal housing crisis
Four of Spain’s top urban planners hope to draft a new urban plan (PGOU) for the town, which still has to rely on an outdated plan from 1986
British bird lovers to stage 700 mile trek through Spain to save turtle doves
The four Brits will walk 700 miles from Tarifa to Asturias from February 5 to raise money to help protect the bird, whose population has fallen by 93% in the UK and 74% in Europe since 1970
Rise of illegal buildings in El Palmar getting ‘out of control’
There are no running water or sewage facilities
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Major hotel group takes over two five-star resorts on Spain’s Costa del Sol
THE BARCELO hotel group is gearing up for a busy summer in Spain after taking over management at two four-star hotels on the Costa del...
