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Scottish minister blasts ‘balconing league table’ which mocks deaths of tourists in Spain as ‘vile’ – just days after Scot’s fatal fall from an Ibiza hotel

A GOVERNMENT minister has blasted a balconing league table as ‘vile’ and called for its website to be taken down after it celebrated the UK

27 Aug, 2024 @ 14:15

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: British accountant facing extradition to Spain claims he is being ‘silenced’ for ‘providing intelligence that could have foiled London and Madrid terror attacks’

A BRITISH accountant and ‘undercover agent’ claims he is once again facing extradition to Spain in order to ‘silence’ him. Paul Blanchard, 79, from York,

27 Aug, 2024 @ 12:28

Crime & Law·Lead·Tenerife

Mallorca-based captain of the tragic Mike Lynch yacht is expected to face an investigation over sinking

ITALIAN prosecutors have launched an official investigation into the Mallorca-based captain of the Bayesian yacht which sank off the coast of Sicily last week, killing

26 Aug, 2024 @ 20:53

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Warning over Booking.com scam after British tourists lose thousands to fraudsters – this is how to spot them

BRITISH tourists are warning holidaymakers after a Booking.com scam saw them lose thousands to fraudsters. Unfortunate sun seekers have seen their holiday plans ruined after

26 Aug, 2024 @ 12:32

Crime & Law

Exclusive: Norwegian expat who survived a horror axe attack on Spain’s Costa del Sol is suing doctors for ‘laughing off’ his pain and ‘shrugging him off with painkillers’

A NORWEGIAN expat has been left traumatised after a horrific axe attack in Fuengirola left him with ‘unbearable’ back injuries. Marius J, 30, was drinking

25 Aug, 2024 @ 11:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Marbella

Spanish police officer is arrested ‘for groping a young woman’s buttocks’ at the Malaga feria

AN off-duty Guardia Civil officer will be tried for sexual assault after being accused of groping a woman’s backside in Malaga. The attack happened last

24 Aug, 2024 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

British radio star Nick Grimshaw and his mother, 81, are gassed and robbed in Spain ‘by men in hazmat suits’

British radio star Nick Grimshaw and his mother, 81, are ‘sedated with gas and robbed’ in Spain ‘by men in hazmat suits’

BROADCASTER Nick Grimshaw and his 81-year-old mother Eileen were sedated with gassed and robbed while on holiday at an Ibiza villa. The former BBC Radio

23 Aug, 2024 @ 19:00

Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead

Forgetful father faces homicide charge in Spain after 'his daughter, 2, dies in locked car in ordeal lasting for hours

Wanted British ‘narco’, 50, is found hiding among expat community under a fake identity in Spain’s Valencia

A BRITISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Valencia province. The 50-year-old man lived under a false identity

23 Aug, 2024 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Exposed: Taxi drivers are arrested for using ‘mafia tactics’ to gouge prices at Sevilla airport

‘I thought they were going to kill me’: Taxi driver, 71, is attacked by three German police officers in Spain’s Mallorca

A 71-YEAR-OLD Mallorca taxi driver was hospitalised after a brutal beating from a group of German tourists who claimed to be police officers. Three men

23 Aug, 2024 @ 08:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Watch: Police in Spain bust cocaine haul hidden among pineapple shipments

THIS is the moment police in Spain uncovered a cocaine shipment hidden among pineapples. In a statement online, Policia Nacional said the drugs had come

23 Aug, 2024 @ 07:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead·Video

Slaves are freed from brothel of horrors in Madrid: Victims were ‘forced to insert sponges, take cocaine and work until they fainted’

POLICE have raided a house of horrors in Madrid where women were forced to prostitute themselves until they passed out. Policia Nacional arrested eight people

22 Aug, 2024 @ 21:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Fugitive in Spain livestreams his escape from police before being swiftly located

A VALENCIA man with five legal warrants against him- including two to send him to prison- taunted authorities via a live video stream before the

21 Aug, 2024 @ 22:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

British man threatens to blow up a house in Spain after barricading himself inside

A 48-YEAR-OLD British man has been arrested in Spain’s south-east Murcia region following a three-hour stand-off with police where he threatened to blow up a

21 Aug, 2024 @ 16:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Spain investigates far-right ‘falsehoods and hate speech’ on social media following fatal stabbing of 11-year-old boy

THE Prosecutor’s Office is investigating ‘false’ and ‘hateful’ social media postings following last weekend’s murder of an 11-year-old boy in Toledo province. A 20-year-old man

21 Aug, 2024 @ 14:24

Crime & Law·Lead

Watch: Drivers in Spain are warned by police to never leave this item in their vehicle’s glove box

THE Guardia Civil has launched an awareness campaign aimed at drivers in Spain. In a video shared on social media, an officer from the force

21 Aug, 2024 @ 13:53

Crime & Law·Lead·Video

Benidorm scammers conned savers out of €339,000 with bogus claims of UK-based investment companies bringing massive monthly profits

A SCAM based in Benidorm promising instant high returns on investments has been busted by the Policia Nacional after pocketing over €339,000 since 2021. Four

21 Aug, 2024 @ 12:37

Benidorm·Crime & Law·Lead

British expat is bludgeoned to death with a gardening hoe ‘for walking his dog near neighbour’s home’ in southern Spain

A 59-year-old British expat died in an Almeria hospital on Saturday after being struck on the head days earlier by a gardening hoe. The confrontation

20 Aug, 2024 @ 17:15

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead

What happened to Bernadette Cooper? Missing Irish expat vanished after securing funds to save her Costa del Sol bar in 1993 – and her nephew fears mafia involvement

Do you have information about this case? Email tips@theolivepress.es THE family of an Irish expat who vanished more than 30 years ago have launched a

20 Aug, 2024 @ 16:46

Crime & Law·Lead

Warning for tourists in Alicante after thief uses this method to steal mobile phones from holidaymakers

A CRAFTY thief has been accused of stealing mobile phones by distracting bar and restaurant terrace customers- mainly tourists- in Alicante. The Policia Nacional have

20 Aug, 2024 @ 15:00

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

British expat drug lord is arrested in Spain over cocaine, heroin and ecstasy empire

A BRITISH man has lost an extradition hearing in Spain and will face major drug trafficking charges in the UK. The National Court in Madrid

20 Aug, 2024 @ 14:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Tenerife

Pirate taxi driver in Spain’s Ibiza tests positive for every detectable drug, including cocaine and cannabis

A PIRATE taxi driver in Ibiza was pulled over by the police on Tuesday morning and was found to have consumed a dangerous cocktail of

20 Aug, 2024 @ 12:45

Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead

How far-right forces in Spain used the brutal killing of an 11-year-old boy to stir up racial tensions

THE news of the brutal murder of an 11-year-old boy in Spain has been used by the far-right to stir up racial tensions. Young Mateo

20 Aug, 2024 @ 12:21

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Mocejon stabbing latest: ‘Killer’ says ‘his other self’ carried out fatal stabbing of boy, 11 – and that he showered at his grandparents’ house afterwards

THE 20-year-old suspect accused of stabbing an 11-year-old boy to death in Spain told police it was his ‘other self’ who carried out the killing.

20 Aug, 2024 @ 11:49

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

‘Nervous’ ferry passenger in Spain is caught trying to smuggle three giant lizards belonging to a threatened species

THREE giant lizards have been seized in Spain after being found among a ferry passenger’s luggage. The 52-year-old man was searched by the Guardia Civil

20 Aug, 2024 @ 11:09

Crime & Law·Environment·Lead

Pictured: ‘Confessed killer’, 20, who ‘stabbed 11-year-old boy to death’ during horror attack in Spain – here’s all we know

A 20-YEAR-OLD man has reportedly confessed to killing an 11-year-old boy during a horrific attack at a sports centre in Spain. The suspect (pictured above

20 Aug, 2024 @ 00:14

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Police find €1million in CASH during raid of house belonging to a ‘narco boat operator’ in Spain’s Cadiz A HUGE police operation to smash the narco-trafficking gangs plaguing the Strait of Gibraltar swept up a €1.4 million in cold hard cash. Dubbed Grajuela, 20 Apr, 2024 @ 15:30 National News narco speed boats ‘Narco boat’ manufacturers who ‘helped drug traffickers ferry eight tonnes of cocaine and hashish’ along the Gibraltar Strait are arrested in Spain as crackdown continues A GANG that specialised in manufacturing the notorious ‘narco launches’ that have become ubiquitous in the Strait of Gibraltar has been raided. The Galicia-based criminal 19 Apr, 2024 @ 15:15 Crime & Law·Lead Narco boat smashes against a Guardia Civil vessel off Spain’s Costa del Sol A Guardia Civil boat was rammed by a narco boat off the Estepona coast on Thursday during a chase. The Guardia vessel- Rio Belelle- was 29 Mar, 2024 @ 10:15 Andalucia·Crime & Law·Drugs·Estepona·Lead·Malaga·Other News Family clan who ‘sold drugs delivered by narco boats’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca is arrested

Arrests made after €100,000 ‘narco boat’ owned by major international drug trafficking gang ran adrift onto beach on Spain’s Valencia coast

TWO people have been arrested in Gandia after a narco-boat worth over €100,000 was discovered stranded adrift last year at L’Ahuir beach between Xeraco and

19 Aug, 2024 @ 18:00

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