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The loud noise emanating from a property in Marbella alerted neighbours who suspected an illegal party breaking Covid-19 containment regulations was being held there. They called on the National Police who discovered more than 20 people holding a
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EUGENIO CABEZAS
...could repeal a decree to regularize many of the province's illegal homes. The conflict could end up in Spain's constitutional court if an agreement between the regional government, the Junta de Andalucía, and central government, isn't reached in the ... next few months. Recognition for illegal houses The decree in dispute was passed by the Junta de Andalucía in mid September and allows almost 70,000 illegal homes in the region to be recognised by the Andalusian government and be registered in order
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Eugenio Cabezas / álvaro frías / Juan Cano
The public prosecutor in Malaga has requested a two-year jail term for Nerja mayor José Alberto Armijo and Urban Development and Housing councillor Mari Nieves Atencia for their involvement in the Río de la Miel illegal dump. In addition to the ... says there is lack of evidence to suggest they took part voluntarily in the operation. The Río de la Miel illegal dump was authorised by Nerja town hall and started operating in June 1998, a year after the Cantera de Áridos dump was closed and shortly
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ALVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO
...alleged traffickers, a man and his wife, aged 41 and 35, respectively, were located and arrested. During the operation police seized documentation relating to the illegal activity, computer material, telephones and a compressed air gun.
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Eugenio Cabezas
President Philip Smalley and spokesperson Mario Blancke of SOHA (Save Our Homes Axarquía) have expressed their concern that that the new decree passed in September by the Junta de Andalucía "leaves out people who had their building licences annulled"
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JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS
Soho district of Malaga, with views over the port. Police raid on illegal cigarette factory unearths six suffocating workers However 'Dobbo' knew that his luck could change any day, and that is why, when officers from the Guardia Civil's ... UK after being caught with four others running an illegal drugs laboratory in Doncaster.
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
Police in Marbella are reporting a significant increase in items confiscated from illegal vendors compared to this time last year. 2019 figures have soared to 8,155 to date, with 7,004 articles seized after they were abandoned when their owners ... increased attention given to this illegal activity and this year's early launch of Marbella's preventative campaign as reasons for the rise. The campaign, which aims to deter illegal street vendors, this year was well under way before the start of the high ... season. The councillor responsible for Security, José Eduardo Díaz, says that Marbella is "pioneering and exemplary" in its approach towards the fight against this illegal activity. "Although the crime has not been eradicated entirely, it has been
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FERNANDO TORRES
...trafficking, membership of a criminal organisation, false documentation and illegal residence.
Opinion
Mark Nayler
...eradication of illegal immigration into the country. Like other right-wing parties throughout Europe, Vox is usually branded as "anti-immigration", a label that's not necessarily inaccurate, but one that nevertheless flattens out the nuances of its ... Andalusian coast (around half of all undocumented immigrants who crossed the Mediterranean last year ended up on Spanish shores). On the other hand, Abascal sounds depressingly like Donald Trump when he talks of deporting, without exception, all illegal
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...prison for between nine and 13 years each had unleashed the violence in Catalonia that many had been fearing. The sentenced politicians and activist leaders had been on trial for their part in the illegal declaration of independence in the region in 2017. ... been on trial for their role in the illegal referendum and have also been barred from holding public office for the same length of time as their sentences. The longest sentence, 13 years for sedition and embezzlement, was handed to former Catalan