ISSUE NO. 1639
1 - 7 December 2016
COSTA DE ALMERÍA
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
€10,000 bid to buy a baby
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Terror suspects THE Guardia Civil’s anti-terrorism services arrested four people early on Monday morning, two of them in Almeria, for allegedly belonging to irregular immigration networks used by Daesh. The network with which the four arrestees allegedly maintained contact operated on the so-called ‘Syrian refugee route’ between Turkey and Eastern Europe. See page 6
Photos by Guardia Civil/Antonio Lopez Villegas
Teacher taken in A BRITISH teacher has been arrested and sacked over allegations that he was conducting an illegal affair with a teenage student at a private school in Alme-
ria. The affair was reported by the girl’s mother who claimed the affair had started when her daughter, also a foreign national, was just 14. See page 7
Dodgy documents THE Public Prosecutor is pushing for three-year jail sentences for two people in charge of a consultancy office accused of creating false employment contracts for foreigners. The prosecution’s initial accusation also calls for a guilty verdict for six people who allegedly made use of the fraudulent services to obtain See page 12 their papers.
Brexit accord By John Smith Guardia Civil officers have arrested two men accused of trying to buy a baby girl from a young woman in Almeria for €10,000. The men were taken into custody in Vicar and the woman arrested in Arcos de la Frontera, Cadiz, after police received a tip-off. Officers contacted her local council who said the woman had reported the birth but stated that the baby had died and its body had been donated to scientific research. When police went to the hospital where the child was born
they found it had been a healthy birth and that mother and daughter had been discharged, although the birth had not been registered at that stage. The men, described as a couple, had travelled to Cadiz to collect the three-day-old infant and were going to register the birth in Almeria as well as obtaining a notarised agreement from the girl that she had hand-
ed the baby over to them. Once officers were able to ascertain that the child was in good health, they interviewed the mother who said she had attempted artificial insemination by herself a number of times until successful and that she was passing the child over to make sure it had a good future. The men denied making any offer of payment but because of
differences in their statements to police and the fact that records showed the young woman had received IVF treatment in a Malaga clinic, it became clear that a financial arrangement had been arranged. All three were arrested and the child removed from her mother and placed in the care of social services in the Junta de Andalucia.
PRESIDENT of the Almerian Levante Municipalities Association and Mayor of HuercalOvera, Domingo Fernandez, met with Jim Simpson, Zurgena’s se-
curity councillor and founding member of Europats, in order to discuss a number of issues related to non-EU citizens post BrexSee page 57 it.