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Judge refuses tests requested by landowner's defence team in Julen investigation

Álvaro Frías / Juan Cano

The judge investigating the death of little Julen, who suffered a fatal fall down a narrow borehole in Totalán in January, has refused a request from the defence team of David Serrano, the owner of the land on which the hole was dug, to carry out ... which ultimately caused Julen's death. They maintain that a metal pick, weighing seven kilos, lowered into the hole to try to unblock earth may have come into contact with Julen and have asked for rescuers, including Guardia Civil, police and fire

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Julen's parents say they didn't know there was a borehole near where their son was playing

JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS

...owned by Serrano when Julen suddenly plunged over 70 metres into the 25cm wide hole. Serrano is the only person under formal investigation as the judge decides whether he should be tried for possibly not doing more to prevent the accident. In their ... location. Serrano had told the judge in his statement last Friday that he had warned them all and had covered the hole with two blocks of cement. He claimed he had never imagined a child could fit in such a narrow hole. Landowner's legal team suggests ... may have died after the fall during the early stages of the rescue bid and says that some of the rescuers should be interviewed as well. In the document, they say that the toddler cried after falling and scrapes against the narrow walls of the hole

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Final stage of rescue operation gets under way

Juan Cano / Álvaro Frías / Fernando Torres

...boy. Julen fell down a 100-metre-deep borehole on Sunday 13 January and the rescue operation has take the form of an unprecedented feat of emergency engineering. A vertical tunnel, drilled parallel to the original hole the boy fell down, had to be ... Monday's work had also come across setbacks after the machinery came across a layer of especially hard rock at a depth of 52 metres, slowing down progress. The drilling of the parallel tunnels started 25 metres below the top of the original hole thanks to ... rescuers are still 'days away' from reaching him A family already hit by tragedy Around 300 experts have been working round the clock in the Sierra de Totalán on this complex rescue operation. Julen fell into the hole, which is just 25

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Miners digging tunnel in Totalán use explosives to reach to Julen

JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS / FERNANDO TORRES

2.5 metres of the four-metre tunnel they need to dig to connect with the hole where Julen was thought to be. A third blast, with explosives brought in by helicopter from Seville, helped the diggers make progress through the hard rock. At 8.30pm, with ... to the hole Julen fell down, despite initial reports that stated they were half way through. The miners came up against extremely hard rock, which required the intervention of explosives specialists for the third time since the tunnelling began on ... Thursday evening. After days of complications, on Thursday afternoon miners were eventually able to go down into the vertical tunnel drilled parallel to the narrow 100-metre-deep hole the boy fell down on Sunday 13 January. Hundreds get involved in

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Julen's body is removed from borehole after a 12-day rescue operation in Totalán

Juan Cano / Álvaro Frías / Fernando Torres

The Guardia Civil will seal the hole the boy fell down and the parallel rescue shaft shortly. The mayor of Malaga has declared three days of official mourning.

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Jewellery from Marbella bank robbery in September recovered as police make 13 arrests

Juan CANO / Álvaro FRÍAS

...with an estimated value of 120,000 euros) after entering through a hole made in the manager's office from an adjacent property. This raid followed a similar one in Barcelona in March last year where they managed to take 80,000 euros in cash. Police

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Investigation reveals safety shortfalls as Malaga and Totalán mourn the loss of little Julen

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...him was a key part of the initial investigation into whether the illegal hole had been properly covered and how the boy came to fall down. Rescuers, after initially rejecting a horizontal tunnel to reach the boy's position, had completed a parallel ... borehole, drilled by a contractor searching for water, didn't have a licence. The company owner has said he left the hole covered with a 15-kilo stone, and police are comparing his explanation with the version of the land's owner, who is the partner of ... disappeared from view down the hole, according to witness statements.

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Time running out for little Julen as rescuers are still 'days away' from reaching him

ÁLVARO FRÍAS / EUGENIO CABEZAS / IGNACIO LILLO / JUAN CANO

...boy. Julen fell into the hole, which is just 25 centimetres wide, while playing with a friend as his parents prepared lunch in the rural area near the Cerro de la Corona dolmen. A relative witnessed the fall and heard Yulen's cries. A family ... lowered into the same hole. The first course of action was for firemen to lower a mobile phone with a camera to check if anything was visible. They reached about 50 metres from the surface with no trace of the boy. A robot donated by the drain-cleaning ... firm Pepe Núñez was then lowered into the hole to attempt to get a better idea of the situation. However, despite reaching a greater depth, 78 metres, it was unable to get past earth that had apparently been dislodged as the boy fell. It did, however,

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Miguel Ángel Jiménez picks up his first title of the season in Florida

EMILIO MORALES

...old foe Bernhard Langer and Olin Browne, forcing a play-off. Jiménez showed precision on the final hole, finishing in four, while Langer and Browne did it in five. His friend José María Olazábal, who also took part in the tournament, was the

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"I sealed the well shut with a rock"

The hole into which little Julen fell on Sunday had been dug just a month previously by the company Triben Perforaciones. The company's boss, Antonio Sánchez, was involved in the work himself and went to the site in Totalán on Tuesday. "I