4 Jan, 2022 @ 17:15
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Man faces 4 years jail for kicking Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s car

A MAN who kicked Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s car and hurled insults during a protest in Spain’s African enclave of Ceuta faces up to four years in prison.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office is demanding the jail term after charging the man – whose identity has not been revealed by the courts –  with two crimes of resistance and serious disobedience to authority.

Protestors were complaining about immigrants illegally entering Ceuta

He is the only person charged over the protest against an ‘avalanche’ of thousands of immigrants crossing the border from Morocco.

The man had forced his way through a police cordon to shout insults at the PM and then kicked the official vehicle in which Sanchez was travelling with the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

The events occurred on May 18 last year when Sanchez was on an official visit to the autonomous city.

The man also faces a fine of €12 per day for two years as well as paying compensation of €252 for the damage caused.

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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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