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Charo MÁRQUEZ
Three men have been arrested in connection with the theft of three holy chalices, valued at 1,500 euros, and four cured hams from the El Calvario church in Marbella. The men took advantage of the fact the church was open and took the chalices from
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
A joint operation carried out by the Royal Gibraltar Police and Spain's Policía Nacional has resulted in the arrest of 47 people who are said to have been involved in peopletrafficking between Morocco and Spain or other European countries via ... Gibraltar. The organised crime group are believed to have made over one million euros from the scheme, after charging each migrant between 7,000 and 8,000 euros. The investigation began in November when Gibraltar police noticed a significant increase in
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JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS
The case of Víctor Sánchez del Amo, sacked as Malaga CF coach after an intimate video of him went viral on social media, is more common than it might seem. In Malaga, the National Police investigate on average one report of this type a week, ... Sánchez del Amo video The coach first reported to police in Oviedo that he was being blackmailed, and later told Malaga police that the sexually explicit images were being published online. The term 'sextortion' is used to refer to a variety of ... and threatens to pass the video to his contacts unless he pays the 'ransom'. The police say this is often one of the dangers of open social media networks: if you are an anonymous individual, the criminals can find out who your relatives and friends
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Police in Fuengirola attended a complicated emergency last Saturday morning. One man was seriously injured after falling from a second-floor flat trying to escape a stabbing by a person known to him. Police later found the 40-year-old alleged
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Tony Bryant
Torremolinos town hall has praised the rapid and effective intervention of Local Police officers in the attempted suicide of a teenager last week. The incident took place on one of the bridges that cross over the AP-7 motorway, after several ... want to congratulate the Local Police of Torremolinos for their exceptional skill. We are extremely grateful for their rapid intervention."
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National Police have sent out a warning regarding a new burglary trend currently in action around Malaga. A group of criminals from Eastern Europe is placing small pieces of plastic or thread on doors of properties they consider most likely to
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Two National Police officers in Fuengirola saved the life of an elderly British resident last week after concerned relatives raised the alarm 2,500 kilometres away. Miguel and Rafa were on duty last Friday when they received a call for help from ... fellow officers in Manchester, UK. They had been approached by worried relatives of Alan, a British citizen living in the Costa town, whom they hadn't heard from for several days. The family members had gone to their local police station and, as a ... police officer back in Manchester. Doctors told Rafa and Miguel that Alan had been lying on the ground for several days. "They told us that if we hadn't acted, he would no longer be with us," said Rafa.
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...for sex, which the victim declined. He apparently then followed as she left work, forced her to the ground and tried to kiss her. She managed to escape. The man is in custody and has a police record for similar offences.
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France but will formalise their complaint to Spanish police in the coming weeks at a station close to the border.
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A Belgian couple were rescued by local police after becoming lost while hiking along the Río Chillar from Nerja to Frigiliana just before Christmas. Receptionists at the Riu Monica in Nerja, where the man, 53, and woman, 50, were staying, alerted ... police when they failed to return to the hotel on the evening of 22 December. After a three-hour search police found the couple safe and well but tired in an area known as Lomillas del Chillar, which is difficult to access.