Málaga waiter stabbed

waiter in a Málaga restaurant was stabbed after he asked a beggar to stop bothering his customers. The vagrant smashed plates on the floor before picking up a table knife and attacking the 26-year-old waiter who was not seriously injured. Catering workers have complained that city centre beggars constitute an on-going problem but that complaints to the town hall bring no soluti...

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Wave of arrests investigation into taxfraud involving a bank in Liechtenstein. Costa arrests were in Marbella, Fuengirola, Torremolinos

70 Spanish nationals have been arrested in a major investigation into tax and fiscal fraud involving a bank in Liechtenstein. Four of the detentions were in Marbella, Fuengirola, Torremolinos and Benalmádena and officers have also visited a private bank located in Nueva Andalucía.According to official sources some 200 million euros is thought to have been involved in the fraud. The 'Jade-Limusina' investigation started in April when the Tax Agency presented the anti-corruption prosecutor with a report indicating that 198 people could be involved...

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Civil Guard is looking for the thieves who broke into the home belonging to their Civil Guard Chief Captain in San Vicente del Raspeig, in Alicante.

Civil Guard is looking for the thieves who broke into the home belonging to their Civil Guard Chief Captain in San Vicente del Raspeig, in Alicante.The chief was asleep with his family in his home in the old Guardia Civil barracks in Babel, where some 20 civil guard families now reside, while the thieves obtained access through a balcony window. The embarrassing theft took place a month ago, but news of it has only just been released. A bag and other items were tak...

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Prices falling, buyers are disappearing and developers, starved of loans by Spanish banks nervous about international financial instability

prices are falling, buyers are disappearing and developers, starved of loans by Spanish banks nervous about international financial instability, are going bust. Along the Costas, developments lie half-finished, without water and electricity, and without any prospect of being sold. For Spain's notoriously corrupt and capricious planning regime, which gave birth to the developments now disfiguring virtually all the country's Mediterranean coastline, the chickens are coming home to roost. Houses built on the nod of corrupt mayors are being refused...

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James Douglas Willson retired Des Plaines pilot convicted of international drug trafficking in Morocco

James Douglas Willson, 67, suffers from diabetes and kidney failure and has lost 35 pounds, said his daughter, Marilyn Brief.A retired Des Plaines pilot convicted of international drug trafficking in Morocco isn't getting adequate medical care and may not survive his 7-year prison sentence, a family member says."My dad's body is shutting down," Brief said. "He's dying."Imprisoned since early May, Willson was convicted after a Cessna 337 he reportedly was flying was seized by Moroccan police on a rural road, according to a statement from the Moroccan...

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Álvaro Iglesias was found guilty of sexually abusing five children between 2002 and 2004.

The Spanish paedophile known as ‘Nanysex’ has been sentenced to 58 years in prison for sexually abusing five children between the years 2002 and 2004. The name came for Álvaro Iglesias following his system of offering himself to babysit for the children who he would then go on to abuse. He also faces charges on six counts of the corruption of minors in localities in Madrid and Murcia.His friend and accomplice José G.C. was sentenced to 31 years in prison by the Madrid court, and a third defendant, Eduardo S.M. was sentenced to 14 years after he...

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Martinsa-Fadesa -- which operated out of Ireland and dealt with several agents here -- preparing to declare bankruptcy in the face of debts of €5bn.

Spanish housing crisis claimed its first major victim, with property developer Martinsa-Fadesa -- which operated out of Ireland and dealt with several agents here -- preparing to declare bankruptcy in the face of debts of €5bn. It has created major shockwaves here, among customers who are still awaiting the completion of their dream home in the sun.Another announcement, which sent ripples across the industry this week, was news that Larionova, the biggest and most high profile of the Irish foreign property agents, is also to shut up shop, amid...

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Joseph Jones was accompanied by officers from the Herts and Beds Major Crime Unit on his return from Spain

Joseph Jones, 23, of Crescent Road, New Barnet, was accompanied by officers from the Herts and Beds Major Crime Unit on his return from Spain yesterday.The headless body of father-of-four John Finney was found in Ickleford in March, weeks after he was abducted outside his home in Northaw.One of three implicated in the case, Jones and another man were arrested in Spain on murder charges in May.The third, 28-year-old Mark Curran, of Dollis Valley Way...

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Gang of drug traffickers had six light planes for bringing drugs from Africa into Spain.

Spanish authorities have broken up a gang of drug traffickers that had six light planes for bringing drugs from Africa into Spain.The criminal organization was led by a veteran airline pilot, arrested together with 11 other gang members, who used airfields and landing strips in wooded areas in Andalucía to evade detection by security forces.Besides the six airplanes, the Civil Guard, Spain's militarized national police, seized assault rifles and other weapons plus documents and a quantity of drugs.The first phase of the operation was launched last...

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Torremolinos man has been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison

Torremolinos man has been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to murder another man over a debt. The court heard how he approached the victim in the street in the early hours of June 25, 2006, and slit his throat, severing the jugular vein. The victim survived the attack but took more than two months to recov...

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Montejaque hashish plants find

19-year-old youth has been arrested in the village of Montejaque near Ronda on drugs offences. The Guardia Civil arrested him after 19 hashish plants were found growing in pots on his patio. A routine patrol had spotted the plants and the officers suspected they were cannabis. First they set about identifying them as drugs then they made the arre...

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6,000 euros cash robbery in Malaga

case of robbery of recently withdrawn cash has been recorded in Málaga. Two thieves relieved a man of 6,000 euros which he had just taken out of a city centre bank at lunchtime last Friday. The pair, reported to have South American accents, felled their victim with a blow to the legs before snatching the money and fleei...

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Brit arrested for exposure

National Police in La Línea have arrested a 54-year-old British national of Indian origin for allegedly exposing himself to a child in the town. He was reported to the police by a neighbour after he habitually appeared nude and making obscene gestures by his window while a neighbour’s five-year-old daughter was in his clear view on the balco...

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Moroccan national arrested Algeciras port

The Guardia Civil in Algeciras port have arrested a Moroccan national, described as violent and dangerous and alleged to be a member of an international drug trafficking network. At the time of his arrest at the Tangier ferry passport control it is believed he was trying to flee to Morocco after Italian police issued a warrant for his detenti...

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Arrested a 35-year-old Málaga man alleged to have robbed two shops in Torrox Costa.

Guardia Civil officers in Nerja have arrested a 35-year-old Málaga man alleged to have robbed two shops in Torrox Costa. He is thought to have threatened staff with a large kitchen knife and a replica firearm before making off with a total of 800 euros. His targets were a small corner shop and a bake...

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Five people have been arrested for allegedly attacking officers at the Alhaurín el Grande Guardia Civil headquarters

Five people have been arrested for allegedly attacking officers at the Alhaurín el Grande Guardia Civil headquarters. The incident occurred when relatives of a detained man saw officers restraining him after he tried to escape. From outside the facility’s fence, they hurled rocks and punched one officer who approached the fen...

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