29 Mar, 2020 @ 18:48
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Troops take to Marbella streets as part of coronavirus lockdown

Army Arrives In Palma

SIXTY Spanish Legionnaires have been deployed to patrol the streets of Marbella, Benahavis, Ojen and Istan as part of the coronavirus measures. 

The crack troops from the Tercio Alejandro Farnesio battalion based in Ronda were deployed earlier today (Sunday, March 29). 

Army Arrive
DEPLOYED: Troops have been on the streets on the Costa del Sol.

Military sources say they were on an “information and reconnaissance” mission. 

Patrols were spotted in Marbella, Puerto Banus, San Pedro Alcantara, Marbella’s pleasure harbour and the bus station as well as the inland towns and villages of Benahavis, Istan and Ojen. 

Troops patrolled in pairs and stopped passers-by to inform them of the lockdown regulations and advise them to return home. 

The lockdown regulations have now been tightened to include all ‘non essential’ workers.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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