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Malaga

Parents warned after man tries to snatch teenager outside Costa del Sol sports club

Anthony Piovesan - 13 Mar, 2023 @ 16:30

Police are urging parents to accompany children at all times at a sports club on the Costa del Sol after a shocking attempted kidnapping. A...

Malaga

Sacked Malaga worker assaults and kidnaps boss before driving him for hours to Spain’s Benidorm area

Alex Trelinski - 28 Feb, 2023 @ 12:01

A SACKED Malaga farm worker assaulted his boss and forced him to go on a 500 kilometre car journey to the Benidorm area. The victim,...

Decomposed body found in rio Guadalquivir in Spain’s Sevilla

Andalucia

Woman who split from husband in UK is held captive by family for ‘exorcism’ in Spain’s Andalucia

Alex Trelinski - 8 Feb, 2023 @ 16:15

A woman was locked up by her family for 22 days in Linares because they wanted evil spirits exorcised from her body after she...

Costa Blanca

Gang with Italian mob links is arrested over Costa Blanca kidnapping in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 11 Jan, 2023 @ 15:45

FOUR gang members have been arrested for kidnapping and injurying a man in Callosa de Segura. The victim was held for four days last April...

Mallorca

Woman kidnapped in Spain’s Mallorca after telling knife-wielding robber she had no money

Alex Trelinski - 2 Jan, 2023 @ 15:45

A 62-year-old woman was kidnapped from her Sant Llorenc home on Monday after telling a knife-wielding intruder that she had no money. The victim was...

Costa Blanca

Spain-wide appeal to find kidnap gang boss after snatching Costa Blanca couple to steal cryptocurrency codes

Alex Trelinski - 10 Nov, 2022 @ 18:00

THE Guardia Civil have launched a nationwide appeal to find the mastermind behind an Alicante kidnapping plot last Summer to prise out lucrative cryptocurrency...

Benidorm Mother Abandons Teenage Son In Pamplona Bar And Drives 150 Kilometres To Bilbao In Spain

Crime & Law

Woman who stole baby from hospital in northern Spain spent all night taking selfies

Simon Hunter - 21 Oct, 2022 @ 16:42

MORE details have emerged of the nightmarish experience that the parents of a newborn boy went through in the Spanish city of Bilbao this...

Costa Blanca

Teenage girl claims two-day kidnapping and sex assault ordeal after ‘needle spiking’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 9 Aug, 2022 @ 17:15

A teenage girl claims she was kidnapped by two men at a northern Alicante Province beach and held in a house for two days...

Costa Blanca

Bogus coppers kidnap Russian couple to get cryptocurrency wallet codes on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 21 Jun, 2022 @ 15:51

THE Guardia Civil is probing the kidnapping of a Russian couple by bogus police officers in the San Juan beach area of Alicante on...

Ibiza

Fugitive Irish ‘spiritual guru’ who lived like ‘homeless man’ is arrested over 2018 sex assault on Spain’s Ibiza

Alex Trelinski - 20 Apr, 2022 @ 14:52

AN Irish man has been arrested in Ibiza over an accusation of sexual assault dating back to 2018. In a separate case, Michael Murray, 58,...

Andalucia

Rival Swedish gangs based on the Costa del Sol involved in Fuengirola shooting

Ron Howells - 12 Nov, 2021 @ 09:19

THE National Police have arrested seven members of two extremely violent Swedish criminal gangs in the towns of Malaga, Marbella, Fuengirola and Alicante. The gangs, based on the Costa del Sol, have...

Crime & Law

Police arrest man in Spain’s Murcia region who kidnapped his 2 nieces in 2014 and took them around the...

Alex Trelinski - 5 Nov, 2021 @ 18:44

POLICE have arrested a Yemani man in Cartagena who kidnapped two of his nieces in 2014 and travelled around the world with them. The man,...

Costa Blanca

Violent serial abuser kidnapped girlfriend and forced her into prostitution in Costa Blanca area of Spain

Alex Trelinski - 30 Aug, 2021 @ 13:30

A serial abuser has been arrested for kidnapping and forcing his partner to become a prostitute. The 38-year-old man had 69 police files on him,...

Costa Blanca

Woman kidnapped as Costa Blanca drugs deal turns sour in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 2 Aug, 2021 @ 15:45

A woman was kidnapped as an Elche drugs deal turned sour. Her boyfriend was selling marijuana to a group in the city and they took...

Andalucia

KIDNAP HELL: Waiter tortured, subjected to mock executions and had M carved in his face in Marbella

Dilip Kuner - 2 Aug, 2021 @ 14:15

A WAITER at illegal parties in Marbella has been kidnapped, tortured, subjected to mock executions then had M carved in his face with a...

Andalucia

Westley Capper implicated in disappearance of Latvian model Agnese Klavina in Spain’s Marbella dies ‘from COVID’

Dilip Kuner - 27 Jul, 2021 @ 15:09

THE son of a British millionaire who killed a woman in a drink driving incident and stood trial accused of kidnapping a model...

Crime & Law

Seven arrested in Spain’s Mallorca for kidnapping and torturing disabled person over two days

Isha Sesay - 9 Mar, 2021 @ 17:00

Not only were his toes sewn together, but he was forced to swallow glue, burnt and had shapes of penises tattooed on his face

Crime & Law

Colombian man expelled from Spain after kidnapping ex-girlfriend in Spain’s Mallorca

Isha Sesay - 5 Feb, 2021 @ 20:00

Prosecutors had originally asked for the defendant, aged 37, to be given an eight-year prison sentence for his crime

Crime & Law

Man with black BMW attempts kidnap of two children outside school in Spain’s Mallorca

Isha Sesay - 17 Nov, 2020 @ 15:00

On Monday, two children from the IES Josep Sureda i Blanes school in Palma's Son Gotleu district reported being targeted by a man driving a black BMW

Costa Blanca

British duo arrested as drugs gang on Spain’s Costa Blanca kidnap and torture supplier who conned them

Alex Trelinski - 11 Sep, 2020 @ 12:06

TWO BRITISH men were among a 18-strong drug trafficking and kidnapping gang arrested by the Guardia Civil on the southern Costa Blanca. One of the...

Andalucia

Kidnapped at gunpoint in Spain’s Marbella

Cristina Hodgson - 24 Aug, 2020 @ 12:08

The driver, believed to be in his forties, was forced at gunpoint to get out of his vehicle and into another one.

Almeria

Man in Spain kidnapped, tortured and stabbed to death

Dilip Kuner - 8 Jun, 2020 @ 12:02

THREE people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping, torture and murder of a man in Spain. Police believe that criminals were trying to...

Crime & Law

Name and picture of German man suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann released

Dimitris Kouimtsidis - 4 Jun, 2020 @ 19:08

THE German man suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann has been named and his picture has been released for the first time.

Costa Blanca

Five people who faked kidnapping of COVID-19 victim in Spain’s Alicante arrested

Dilip Kuner - 27 May, 2020 @ 14:53

A GANG of bogus kidnappers have been arrested after it emerged that the man they had allegedly grabbed was actually in hospital. Police have revealed...

Costa Blanca

Man fakes his own 4am kidnapping to hide whereabouts from his wife on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Simon Wade - 23 May, 2020 @ 16:36

A TORREVIEJA resident who reported he had been kidnapped in the early hours of Wednesday morning, May 20, has now been arrested for simulating...

Crime & Law

Police arrest five ‘drug traffickers’ after young man kidnapped and murdered on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Tim McNulty - 19 Mar, 2019 @ 13:05

Brian Martos Carmona's body was found an hour and a half later in Algeciras, a single shot had hit his arm before piercing both lungs and his heart

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