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A 34-year-old woman has stabbed her 19-year-old female partner to death at their rented home in Motril (Granada). The woman turned herself in and confessed to officers at the National Police station in the town. Her hands were still covered with
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FERNANDO TORRES
...following the evidence provided by the nephew, who maintains that Cooper had some kind of link with a criminal organisation based on the Costa del Sol. Apparently, the woman’s real name is Susan, but she always used to known as Bernadette, so the initial
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...ordered the individual to compensate the local police officer 16,212 euros for the injuries suffered. Although the sentence includes a man's name, the defendant is a transsexual woman, but the change hasn’t been reflected in her legal documentation yet.
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Eugenio Cabezas
...incorrectly used for holiday rentals, instead of agricultural land, for some time. Woman arrested GENA said that a "large amount of woodland" had been destroyed, which "cannot be simply replaced by a reforestation programme". While the environmentalists ... this week, Guardia Civil officers arrested a Swedish woman for allegedly being responsible for the wildfire which started last Thursday (1 April). More than 60 specialist Infoca forest firefighters tackled the blaze that destroyed four hectares of ... pines and scrubland. Local Police, Guardia Civil and Civil Protection volunteers also responded to the incident as well as regular firefighters. The woman, who lives in a small rural house in the area, confessed to the police at the scene that she
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Eugenio Cabezas
The Seprona nature protection branch of the Guardia Civil has arrested a Swedish woman for allegedly being responsible for the wildfire near the Maro watchtower and cliffs, near Nerja last Thursday (1 April). More than 60 specialist Infoca forest ... firefighters tackled the blaze that destroyed four hectares of pines and scrubland. Local Police, Guardia Civil, Civil Protection volunteers also responded to the incident – as well as regular firefighters. The woman, who lives in a small rural house in the
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J. M. L.
A 49-year-old woman from Madrid will always be grateful to the Guardia Civil of Aguas Nuevas (Albacete) because a couple of officers from the barracks saved her life. The woman was eating a sandwich at the bar of a service station near Albacete ... minutes later, the woman began to breathe lightly and fully regained consciousness. After being examined by the health services who arrived at the bar, she was allowed to continue her trip back to Madrid. The Heimlich manoeuvre first aid technique is
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A 27-year-old woman was seriously injured after being rammed by a bull that had escaped from a cattle ranch in the Andalusian town of Gerena. The young woman was admitted to the Virgen Macarena hospital in Seville. Four other people were injured
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EUROPA PRESS
National Police officers have arrested a 30-year-old Albanian woman at the Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport for allegedly trying to leave Spain with false documents. The border control officers found her using a Norwegian passport in someone else’s
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SUR
A 55-year-old woman suffered head injuries after falling into an empty swimming pool in the Malaga town of Coín. Emergency services rescued the woman from the three-metre-deep pool that lacked an access ladder. The 112 Andalucía emergency ... and once the woman’s condition was stabilised she was transferred to the Clínico hospital in Malaga.
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...performed at the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella, which has its own pathological anatomy service, after the courts, at the request of the family, ordered that an examination of the body be carried out to clarify the cause of death. The woman died at
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30 March when the woman said that she was walking her water dog, on a lead, through an open field in the town. A small Yorkshire Terrier that was running loose - approached and a small fight started. Police said it was the owner of the water dog
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A 28-year-old motorcyclist, who worked delivering food to people at home, died on Saturday evening in Marbella when was in a head-on collision with a car driven by a British woman who was allegedly travelling on the wrong-side of a motorway ... carriageway. It is claimed that after the accident the woman tried to flee the scene, first at the wheel of her extensively damaged Mercedes rental car and then on foot. When Local Police found her hiding in a hedge sources have told SUR she showed signs of ... the road, about 400 metres from the exit to Puerto Banús, he was faced with a Mercedes GLA 200, rented from a hire car company, being driven in the wrong-direction on the carriageway by the British woman described by sources as 35 years old and a
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A court in Marbella has ordered that the 35-year-old British woman arrested after a food delivery motorcyclist died in an accident should be remanded in custody. The woman, who lives with her partner in Malaga province, is being investigated for ... five criminal offences, after the 28-year-old Colombian man died on the A-7 in Marbella on Saturday night. British woman arrested after motorcycle food-delivery driver death crash in Marbella It is alleged that a white, Mercedes car that ... was being driven by the British woman was on the wrong side of the carriageway and struck the biker head-on at kilometre 174 of the motorway. The young man's bike exploded in a fireball and he died at the scene. The Mercedes car is taken away for
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CRISTIAN REINO
...person and a Spanish woman who are allegedly responsible for the attack on a Barcelona local police van, when there was an officer inside, during demonstrations following the jailing of the Catalan rapper Pablo Hasél. The police officer managed to get
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ALEKK M. SAANDERS
Finland, which is considered a pioneer in female politics. In 1907, no fewer than 19 women were allowed into the first meeting of the Finnish parliament. Since then, Finland has never stopped progressing. Today the country has a young woman in the PM's ... compared even to Iran and Qatar for its lack of women in government. Over the last 50 years, there has only been a handful of women in the Gibraltar Parliament. Despite these past tendencies, in March 2018 a woman in Gibraltar was appointed Acting Chief ... significant question still remains. Can a woman be a prime minister or president in the giant and powerful USA, China, or Russia, or again, in Britain? And how long is it going to take? Spain seems to be going in the right direction. The recent Socialist
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Police are investigating the cause of an ‘out of control’ car crash in Malaga city that has left one young woman seriously injured in an intensive care unit. Initial investigations point to a brake failure. The dramatic events unfolded at about ... The roundabout's kerb catapulted the car into the air and it landed on another vehicle that was stopped on the roundabout, just as a young woman was getting out. A fire broke out which both the Guardia Civil and some people who were in the area tried ... to put out. The 22-year-old woman, who was trapped under one of the cars, suffered serious injuries and was rushed to the intensive care unit of Malaga's Regional Hospital. Two other people were taken to hospital but have already been discharged.
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A woman had to be rescued by firefighters on Wednesday morning (3 February) after being trapped in the usually dry Guadalmedina riverbed in Malaga. It happened after the Limonero reservoir opened its flood gates and there was a sudden rush of water ... down the river. The alarm was raised at around 10.15am, when the emergency services received several calls to say that a woman was trapped on a small islet in the middle of the Guadalmedina riverbed near La Goleta bridge. Local and National Police, ... the ambulance service and the fire brigade were quickly on the scene and rescued the woman who wasn’t injured. The Guadalmedina river is usually dry and is an area where many city dwellers exercise. However, every first Wednesday of the month, the
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A woman in her 30s has been rescued from an underground rubbish container in San Pedro de Alcántara, Marbella. It happened last Sunday at around 11.45pm when a Local Police patrol saw two young people who were acting “suspiciously”. As the ... officers approached them, one of the young men ran off, but they soon caught up with him. When they were talking to pair, they heard the woman's cries for help, coming from inside one of the underground containers. The police called in the fire ... brigade, who finally rescued the woman with the help of waste disposal staff. Once safely outside, the uninjured woman, who suffers from a mental disability, explained to the officers that some men had tricked her into getting into the container,
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National Police officers in Malaga have arrested a man who is accused of spraying a woman with a hydrochloric acid, known as aguafuerte in Spain and used for cleaning. And, in a bizarre twist, the woman was also arrested later. The woman’s screams ... cornered and beaten until he was lying on the ground. The National Police intervened and the officers arrested the 31-year-old accused of the acid attack on the woman. Police also went to the place where the 55-year-old woman was. After identifying and
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A woman in her 50s and a man have drowned after storm Filomena hit the Costa del Sol on Friday. It appears that they had stopped on a track in the Esparragal area of Mijas to look at the swollen River Fuengirola on Friday night. Another man and ... woman travelling in the vehicle were rescued. A team of divers recovered the body of the woman from the vehicle but the man was swept away by the strong currents, despite efforts to throw him a lifeline. His body was later recovered after a search by
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Members of Malaga’s Guardia Civil mountain rescue team have stretchered a 55-year-old woman to safety after she suffered an accident while climbing the La Bola peak in Mijas. The woman, who has a fractured tibia and fibula in her right leg, ... suffered the injuries while climbing the peak with her husband and a friend on Friday. The rescuers carried the woman on a stretcher for two hours before taking her to the Alhaurín el Grande medical centre. The Guardia Civil pointed out that the hikers
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FERNANDO TORRES
...action took place last Saturday. A spokesperson for the association explained to SUR that they felt that four complaints to the town council were not sufficiently acted on and when the Colmenar Local Police did pay the owner a home visit the woman ... woman, the Social Services have put a plan into action to provide help to the woman who, according to sources, lives alone.
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The young woman who suffered horrific burns to more than 45 per cent of her body after an acid attack in the Malaga town of Cártama on 12 January has left a hospital’s intensive care unit after two weeks and been transferred to a specialist burns
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Rachel Haynes
...havens. One small step towards equality in sport was made in Spain's Copa del Rey game last weekend when, for the first time in a final, one of the linesmen was a woman. Back in Malaga, Rincón Fertilidad are making history, and their success in Europe
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National Police officers have arrested two people - a man and a woman - and seized more than 70,000 videos after hidden cameras were discovered in public toilets for women at a shopping centre in Malaga. A small plastic device meticulously placed ... suspect, a 31-year-old woman. But she was not acting alone. Officers found out that a 44-year-old man – her uncle - also accompanied her. With the two suspects arrested, both of their homes were searched, and 71,080 videos of women in public toilets
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A young New Zealand woman who took a job as a striptease dancer on the Costa del Sol was sexually exploited before eventually being released in a police raid – dubbed 'Operation Maori'. The investigation began on 10 November, after an anonymous ... travel to the coast. At the airport, the young woman got into a vehicle and from there she was taken to a flat in Estepona. Fom that moment on her freedom of movement was restricted and the victim spent the night under the constant surveillance of a
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FERNANDO TORRES
The National Police have arrested the woman who allegedly organised the illegal party at a luxury villa in Marbella in which the DJ José María Ares, 41, died after being hit by a bullet in the neck. According to official sources, the woman is a
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...not knowing who they were, invited the officers in and told them to close the door so that the police would not detect the party. The policemen showed their identification to the young woman, a 28-year-old Italian, who said that her roommates were ... not there and that she had invited several people to drink at her house. However, the people in the flat did not support her story and said they didn’t know the young woman and admitted that the drinks had been bought inside the apartment. In the ... flat police found display cabinets full of bottles of alcohol. They also discovered a table that was used as a bar, where drinks were served and where there was a collection area. Officers have reported the woman for not complying with the pandemic
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The Public Prosecutor's Office has demanded a 17-month prison sentence for the woman who left her two-and-a-half-year-old son alone in the car while she and her partner allegedly played the tables in a Marbella casino. The same sentence is being ... after a while, a couple came out of the casino and, seeing the patrol, ran to the vehicle. Officials identified both and verified that the woman was the boy's mother. She is in her 30s and German, like her partner. According to sources, the woman told
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A woman has been arrested in Marbella after allegedly leaving her three-year-old son alone in the car while she was playing the tables in a Marbella casino with her partner. The man was also arrested on the same child neglect charges. The National ... out of the casino and, seeing the patrol, ran to the vehicle. Officials identified both and verified that the woman was the boy's mother. She is in her 30s and German, like her partner. According to sources, the woman told the officers that she ... crime of temporary abandonment of a minor. However, the woman was released to take care of her son - although officers warned her that she should appear in court when summoned. It is claimed that the couple were spending a few days on holiday in Marbella
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The National Police arrested a 59-year-old Finnish woman at Fuengirola railway station this Tuesday after her actions forced trains to grind to a halt for 20 minutes when she refused to wear a mandatory face mask on public transport. Railway staff ... called in the police after the woman had refused to wear a mask or respect coronavirus control social distancing measures. When police arrived at the station they found her in carriage and she produced a card, in Spanish, saying, "Respect my right not ... to wear a mask." The woman refused to produce identification and when the officers tried to inspect her purse she began to 'violently struggle' with one of them. Trains at the station were stopped as alarmed passengers looked on. Finally, the
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A mother who fractured her leg in three places after a fall from a swing while visiting a Costa del Sol park with her child has been denied her 22,000 euro demand for compensation from the Manilva town council. The woman claimed that the height of ... the swing was not “correct” which investigators said they found “confusing” pointing out that if the play equipment was higher her fall in May 2015 would have been harder. In her claim the woman also said the swing at the council-owned facilities did
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A woman who carried a large-scale model of a vagina in a religious-style procession through the streets of Malaga city as part of International Women's Day protests in 2013 has been sentenced to paying a daily fine of 10 euros for nine months. The
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Saturday morning (3 April). The National Police force has opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident but, according to initial investigations, everything point to it being an accident. That afternoon, the woman had
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ÁNGEL DE LOS RÍOS
Palencia. The cash was lost by the waitress at around 10pm on Thursday 11 March, on her way her home after the business closed for the day. But it wasn’t until this week, after police investigations confirmed that the woman was the legitimate owner of
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Eugenio Cabezas
...naked and started to follow a woman, who was walking along the beach, before grabbing hold of her back and touching her. The woman managed to escape her attacker after a struggle and sought help at a nearby beach bar. When police officers arrived
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F. TORRES / J. CANO
...and ill-treatment. The apparent victim of these crimes was located by the Guardia Civil following a joint operation with Belgian police which was triggered last Wednesday when the woman took advantage of a brief moment of freedom to call her brother ... counterparts in Spain. As a result, the local Guardia Civil patrol in Mijas was mobilised. While the woman didn't know the exact location of this farmhouse, she told her brother that she was inland from Las Lagunas, around five or six kilometres in a straight ... the woman confirmed in a statement that she had been held in the property against her will.
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A woman was arrested at El Ancón beach in Marbella on Sunday afternoon after being involved in multiple car collisions. As seen on footage widely shared on social media, a woman who is apparently drunk is approached by a group of people after she ... crashed into one of their cars. After arguing, the woman then attempts to drive away, knocking into various people at the scene. As tensions then escalated, she then attempted to speed off before crashing into a parked vehicle. Eventually a man was ... able to reach into the vehicle to remove the keys from the ignition, trapping the woman until the police arrived. Local Police were first on the scene and tested the woman's alcohol levels. She was confirmed to have been over the legal limit and was
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SUR
Two paragliders, a British man and a woman, have suffered injuries after an accident in Almuñécar, according to the Local Police. The accident occurred at noon when the couple were flying a two-seater paraglider and, for unknown reasons, they
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A pregnant woman and a cyclist were injured early on Thursday morning after a 4x4 vehicle loaded with drugs was involved in a crash during a police chase in Estepona. National Police had been monitoring two suspicious vehicles in the town but upon ... discovering that they were being followed, the drivers decided to flee. During the chase, one of the vehicles crashed into a car near Costalita on the eastern edge of the town, driven by a young woman in her thirties who suffered injuries. A nearby cyclist