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A NEW report from Spain’s Prosecutor’s Office has laid bare some of the many mafia groups operating in the country today. There are some real big hitters among the rogue’s gallery, who have chosen to base themselves in Spain and…
A DANISH man was shot twice in his van by fake police officers in a brazen armed robbery that investigators believe could be an old fashioned mafia settling of scores. Criminals even returned in the middle of the night to…
A YOUNG drug mule was kidnapped and subjected to a grotesque ordeal in Cadiz after a shipment of cocaine and heroin he was supposed to swallow and transport in his stomach vanished. The man, from Puerto Serrano, had travelled to…
THE Portuguese Navy has been hailed for its quick action after launching a dramatic high-seas rescue operation to stop armed drug traffickers who had hijacked a container ship bound for Malaga. At least two gunmen with Eastern European accents stormed…
A RETIRED police chief inspector in charge of security for a top Spanish Ibex 35-listed company has been arrested for assault at a Madrid restaurant. The La Razon newspaper reported that the unnamed man was drunk and attacked three Policia…
A YOUNG man found bashed to death near an isolated ‘hippy’ beach in Almeria has been named as 23-year-old Mario Belmonte, the Olive Press can reveal. His bloodied body was discovered shortly before 11am last Thursday at ‘an isolated cove’…
SEVEN people have been arrested on the Costa Blanca for being part of a phone scam where 42 victims across Spain were conned out of €100,000. The gang leader was detained in Benferri in July, with computer equipment removed from…
By Alessio Ghirlanda THE dog of an Andalusian mayor was fatally poisoned in what the official denounced as retaliation for cancelling a local ‘bull’ run. Left-wing PSOE’s Juan Salvador Dominguez (pictured), mayor of Paterna del Campo near Huelva, posted to…
A VIOLENT feud within the Costa del Sol’s Irish community is at the heart of a devastating blaze which ripped through a strip of pubs over the weekend. The inferno took hold of the bars and restaurants in Torremolinos on…
A SERIAL rapist who posed as a Guardia Civil officer has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Valencia. The man, 33, assaulted six women in four days between August 15 and 18. The Levante newspaper reported that he used…
