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Busy burglar arrested NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a Romanian man, 23, for allegedly stealing from 14 hotel rooms and a house in S’Arenal.
Sales up SALES by Balearic businesses rose 5 per cent during 2013, amounting to more than €4 billion.
Big money FOREIGN tourism brought €10.68 billion to the Balearic Islands in 2013, 8.4 per cent more than in 2012, with the average visitor spending €962 during their stay.
Flu death A 45-YEAR-OLD man has died in the Mateu Orfila hospital from Influenza A. The regional health department has said that the case was an isolated one and that incidence of Influenza A in the Balearics is lower than the Spanish average.
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Expat drug gang busted after 18-month probe SIX members of a British drug gang have been arrested in Magaluf. The group trafficked drugs, mainly cocaine, from the UK to Mallorca using couriers who hid the drugs inside their luggage. The drugs were sold mainly to British residents and tourists holidaying in the Magaluf area.
The Guardia Civil operation began in the summer of 2012, when two of the gang members were arrested, leading officers to gain further information. Several months after the initial arrests, police also started an investigation into the gang before pooling information with the
Guardia Civil in a joint operation. The investigators say the gang members were violent, especially the gang leader, who allegedly was carrying a machete when arrested. Guardia Civil officers raided four houses in Magaluf and made six arrests – five Britons and one Spanish – after a
court issued a search warrant. Police found half a kilo of cocaine, and in one house scales, chemicals and other drug-dealing paraphernalia during the operation on Saturday. Officers learned that the British leader had been wanted for some time by UK law enforcement for having
Four Balearic hotels in Top 50 THE SUNDAY TIMES has listed four Balearic hotels among its top choices of Mediterranean establishments. Those to receive the recognition are the Barcelo Formentor (a repeat winner and Balearic icon since 1929), the Hotel Esplendido in Soller Port, the Hostal Salinas in Eivissa, and the Gecko Beach Club in Formentera. Among the 50 Mediterranean hotels chosen, Spain laid claim to 12 of them. The beach at Formentor, with its crescent shoreline, turquoise waters, and
secluded location nestled along the Mediterranean forest, was listed by The
Sunday Times as the best of all the beaches in the Balearics.
allegedly stabbed a rival in the neck with a pair of scissors. He had fled the UK and been hiding in Mallorca for four years under a false identity before being caught in the recent arrests, said police sources.