NEWS
14 EWN
29 November - 5 December 2012
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Reporter arrested A REPORTER for Spanish TV channel La Sexta claims to have been the victim of police violence in Sevilla. The camerawoman for La Sexta News, Ana Garcia, claims she spent a night in jail in Sevilla after getting involved in an altercation which occurred during a protest against evictions. She was filming when the police charged and several people were injured. She was amongst several arrested and was released the following day, allegedly after her camera and the scenes she had recorded had been confiscated. The media sector said police had reacted violently.
Costa Blanca North
People smuggling criminal network is dismantled in Spain and the UK SPANISH and UK law enforcement authorities successfully dismantled a major international criminal network involved in smuggling Iranian
migrants into the EU. During house searches a substantial amount of evidential material was seized.
The Guardia Civil’s investigation MARLO focused on an organised crime group involved in facilitating illegal immigration from Iran to the EU and North America. The criminal group was composed of mainly Iranian nationals living in Spain and other EU countries, who recruited Iranian nationals in their country of origin. The illegal immigrants were brought by car to Turkey and after that they continued to Greece or other countries within the Schengen area, taking advantage of the lack of border controls. The illegal migrants stayed in the transit countries until they were provided with false documents so they could continue to their final destinations, in most cases the UK or Canada. The Russians spend more. clients were paying the low, but Spain is organised crime group large encouraged by the amounts of money (around increasing numbers. €18,000) to be smuggled.
More Russian tourists THE number of Russian tourists visiting Spain has doubled over the past two years, making Spain their third favourite holiday destination. In October this year, 5.1 million foreign tourists visited Spain, 3.2 per cent fewer than the same month in 2011
Scarf causes death A 17-YEAR-OLD in Burgos died after her scarf became entangled in a go-kart she was driving. The girl, Sara, was taken to the city’s Hospital Universitario but died of asphyxia shortly after admission.
according to the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. However, the number of Russian tourists increased by 63 per cent compared to last year, and they also have greater spending power. Since January this year, 1.12 million Russian tourists have visited Spain, out of a total of 52 million foreign tourists. Compared to the 12.5 million from the UK, Spain’s main market, and the 8.4 million and 8.04 million German and French tourists who
SPENDING POWER: The have visited Spain since January, the number of Russian tourists is still