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After investigators discovered alleged links with a narco group that used corrupt police to smuggle illegal drugs into Spain, a probe into dodgy Covid contract in Andalucia turned into a full-blown storm of corruption.  The mayor of Fines Rodrigo Sanchez and Javier Aureliano Garcia of the Almeria Provincial Council, as well as its vice-president Fernando Gimenez, were arrested last week …

A BRITISH pilot, who killed his Spanish lover during a drug-fueled sex session, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Aaron Rainbow was sentenced to the maximum penalty in Spanish law for stabbing Oscar Tornero six times, following a crystal meth-induced binge, in 2023. Rainbow, a Surrey man, said he acted in self defence after he became paranoid and …

A MAN and a woman have been arrested in the Barcelona area after committing ‘love hug’ robberies on the Valencia region coast. The couple, of unknown nationality and age 26, moved about different areas in the Costa Blanca province and Valencia to make it hard to find them. In the street, the two were mainly targeting elderly people and giving …

La Liga’s decision to backtrack on plans to play a league game in the United States has vindicated angry football fans in Spain. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), which had originally scheduled the match for Villarreal’s Estadio de la Ceramica on 21 December, has now approved the game to take place in Miami. This decision was made in August …

Do you feel secure in Spain? The answer you give will probably depend on where you live – and fresh crime data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) has shone a light on a startling disparity between the country’s cities. Taking the unwanted crown for most dangerous city is – perhaps unsurprisingly – Barcelona, a thriving metropolis known as much …

Interpol led an international campaign to identify a woman whose body had been discovered in Barcelona, Spain more than 20 YEARS AGO. On Thursday, an international policing organization announced that Liudmila zavada, 31, was the woman. Previously known as ‘the woman in pink’, the female’s body was found on July 2, 2005 in Viladecans, near to the busy Barcelona El-Prat …

SPAIN’s housing boom is not slowing down. According to a research report by a major real estate agency, property prices in the country are expected to increase by more than 7% between 2025 and 2050. According to Barcelona-based company Donpiso, the average value of a home is set to tip over €1,900 per square metre for the very first time …

Three Italian mafia members known as Ndrangueta, a gang of Italian mafias, have been arrested on Ibiza. They were detained last Friday in a joint operation between the Policia Nacional and Italy’s Carabinieri which was described as ‘high risk’. A police statement stated that the men “were very dangerous and had a high likelihood of resisting arrest”. READ MORE The …

The Royal Spanish Football Federation has approved plans to hold a La Liga match in the United States. This is causing anger among football fans in Spain. Villarreal vs Barcelona – due to be played at Villarreal’s Estadio de la Ceramica on 21 December – could become the first European league fixture to be played abroad if Spanish football chiefs …

PUBLIC health officials are calling for a nationwide ban on tobacco use, and a ban of smoking at beaches. The draft legislation, which is still in the early stages, would ban smoking from bar and restaurant terraces as well as university campuses, schoolyards, work vehicles, and even on schoolyards. Esteve Fernandez is the regional public health secretary who is pushing …