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The Albanians? The Mocro maffia? The Chinese? A who’s who of the most dangerous criminal gangs and mafias operating in Spain today

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

15 Sep, 2025 @ 18:23

Crime & Law·Lead·Must Read

Nightclub manager shoves customer who suffers fatal fall in Spain's Costa Blanca

Gangsters disguised as cops shoot giant tattooed Danish man in the face and later burn his van in sleepy Malaga town

A DANISH man was shot twice in his van by after gangsters disguised as Guardia Civil officers pulled him over in a quiet town just

13 Sep, 2025 @ 19:46

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

BUSTED!: Two squatters arrested trying to break into Palma flat with crowbar

TWO would-be squatters were caught red-handed trying to break into a Palma flat in the early hours – and one of them was already wanted

10 Sep, 2025 @ 16:15

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Other News

‘They’re still trying to brush it under the carpet’: Family of Brit killed in Benidorm rail at fresh police claim ‘murder unlikely’

THE family of a British father who plunged to his death in Benidorm say Spanish police are still trying to dismiss foul play nearly a

10 Sep, 2025 @ 08:00

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

Cadiz narcos torture and force grotesque laxative ordeal on mule while they wait for him to pass missing drugs

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

9 Sep, 2025 @ 18:45

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

Scottish mafia shootings: How a team of ‘female spotter used phones stolen from Costa del Sol tourists to track mob leaders before Fuengirola massacre’

IT was the brazen Mafia-style hit that sent shockwaves through the Costa del Sol, triggering fears of a vicious gang war not seen since the

9 Sep, 2025 @ 12:41

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

SUNDAY LONG READ: People smuggling from Algeria to Spain is on the rise – thanks to drug traffickers diversifying and murky international politics

ON many a sweltering afternoon this summer, speed boats have been spotted skimming across the Alboran Sea to Spanish shores. To the casual eye, they

7 Sep, 2025 @ 09:30

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead·Must Read

How the Portuguese navy foiled a high-seas narco-jacking of container ship travelling notorious cocaine highway to Malaga

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

5 Sep, 2025 @ 18:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Retired police chief-turned-security boss for top Spanish company ‘attacks three cops in Madrid restaurant while heavily intoxicated’

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.

5 Sep, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Three injured in brawl in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas

THREE young men have been injured following a brawl on Wednesday in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas. The brawl took place in a bar in Avenida

5 Sep, 2025 @ 13:00

crime·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Other News

REVEALED: The hottest crime spots on Spain's Costa Blanca during the first half of 2025

REVEALED: The top crime hot spots on Spain’s Costa Blanca in first half of 2025

ALICANTE province’s crime rate has risen by 4.7% during the first six months of 2025- compared to the same period last year. The figures from

5 Sep, 2025 @ 12:26

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Benidorm police catch French fugitive jailed for 10 years for drug and sex offences

A FRENCH fugitive who skipped a 10-year prison sentence was caught driving around Benidorm with bogus ID documents on him. He had been jailed for

5 Sep, 2025 @ 11:44

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

Man fatally shot three times at 'point blank range' amidst town centre shoppers in Valencia area

Man is shot dead at ‘point blank range’ in front of shocked town centre shoppers in Valencia

A MAN was shot dead in the centre of Xirivella- outside Valencia City- amidst multiple eye-witnesses at around 9.45am on Thursday. The brazen assassin escaped

4 Sep, 2025 @ 15:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

‘Champagne’ scammer who fizzed-up cheap Spanish wine jailed

A FRENCH winemaker has been jailed for selling fake champagne, which was in fact cheap Spanish plonk with fizz added. Didier Chopin, 56, spent 2022

4 Sep, 2025 @ 15:32

crime·Crime & Law·Food & Drink·Lead·Other News

Tranquil Costa del Sol resort town has seen a shocking rise in crime – with sex attacks jumping 133% in a year

ESTEPONA, long considered one of the quieter corners of the Costa del Sol, has seen crime rise sharply in the first half of 2025. The

4 Sep, 2025 @ 15:12

Andalucia·crime·Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead·Malaga·Other News

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Friendly’ youngster killed near isolated ‘hippy’ beach in southern Spain is named, as police search for ‘four mystery men’ in connection with his grisly murder

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

3 Sep, 2025 @ 18:30

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead

Bank scammers operating from Costa Blanca conned victims across Spain out of €100k

Costa Blanca bank phone scam conned victims across Spain out of €100k

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

3 Sep, 2025 @ 17:24

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

WATCH: Police bust gang who pocketed €560k by supplying high-speed boats to migrant smugglers in Spain

A GANG made €560,000 by supplying high-speed boats to traffickers transporting illegal migrants from Algeria to Spain. Six members of the crew have been arrested

3 Sep, 2025 @ 13:30

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead

Gangster who ‘broke out of jail in Italy and fled to Spain’ arrested in sleepy Barcelona barrio

AN ITALIAN gangster on the run for nearly two months who faced 28 years in prison has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Barcelona.

3 Sep, 2025 @ 12:45

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Spain’s racial tensions simmer again as thugs assault migrant children in Madrid after reports of sex attack on girl, 14, by Moroccan asylum seeker

SPAIN’S racial tensions have been brought to the boil once again after thugs targeted a Madrid centre housing young migrants following reports one of its

3 Sep, 2025 @ 10:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Tourist assaults British partner at Costa Blanca airport, injures four police officers, and damages two patrol cars

A MAN caused chaos at Alicante-Elche airport after an eye-witness saw him violently assault his British partner. The attacker was described by Elche City Council

2 Sep, 2025 @ 17:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Woman, 45, caught ‘selling cocaine and heroin in the heart of Estepona’s old town’ as police clampdown on street-level dealing

A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for drug dealing in the heart of Estepona’s historic centre after police caught her with 21 bags of cocaine

2 Sep, 2025 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

Irish crime boss John Gilligan is bailed over drug lab charges after spending eight months behind bars in Spain

IRISH mobster John Gilligan has been released from prison after being arrested in December for running a pink cocaine drug laboratory at his Orihuela Costa

2 Sep, 2025 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Scottish ‘Tinder rapist’ arrested while working out on Costa del Sol beach stands trial in the UK

A SCOTTISH fugitive accused of rape has gone on trial in the UK after being dramatically arrested while exercising on a Costa del Sol beach

2 Sep, 2025 @ 11:45

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

Man chained ex-girlfriend to bed until she signed over her Mallorca home and car to him

A SPANIARD has been accused of tying his ex-girlfriend to a bed in his Mallorca home to force her to sign away her flat and

1 Sep, 2025 @ 17:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Heartless gang impersonates charity workers to steal clothes for needy worth €1m in Spain

THIEVES pretended to be charity workers to steal second-hand clothing worth around €1 million from containers in the Valencian Community. The Policia Nacional have arrested

1 Sep, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia