20 Mar, 2019 @ 11:47
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‘DRUG HILLS’: British expats in upmarket urbanisation on Spain’s Costa del Sol wake up to ‘disgraceful’ graffiti

BRITISH expats and locals have woken up to a series of graffiti scribblings dubbing their urbanisation ‘The Drug Hills’ this morning. 

At least three walls of the La Cala Hills urbanisation, in Mijas, have had the words ‘La Droga Hills’ spray painted on them overnight.

One of the tags was outside a kids’ park.

British expat Bridget Smith told the Olive Press: “I have children that live on here so I am concerned and especially with it being written on the kids park, it’s alarming… an absolute disgrace.”

It comes just a few days after an international drug smuggling ring operating between Morocco, Mijas and France was busted.

The network, made up of French nationals, transported cocaine and hashish from Morocco and Algeria to Malaga before stashing the drugs in hidden compartments on vehicles.

Ten were arrested after Guardia Civil and French Judicial Police seized 46 kilos of cocaine and 500 kilos of hashish in a joint operation.

The arrests were carried out in Arenas, Mijas and on the outskirts of Paris.

The drugs were hidden in double bottoms of vehicles which were accessed via the number plates.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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