COSTA DE ALMERÍA
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION Photo by Ayuntamiento de Almeria
19 - 25 January 2017
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ISSUE NO. 1646
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No escape MOJACAR is one of 12 places in Almeria where property owners who built sneaky pools or extensions could face hefty bills and fines this year. Images taken from satellites, helicopters and even drones are compared with property registers to see whether owners have failed to declare any swimming pools, garages, extensions or See page 2 other additions to avoid paying higher taxes.
Brutal assault FIVE dogs were shot and killed and a horse nearly blinded in a ‘barbaric’ attack which is being blamed on hunters in a national park near Granada.
One dog was shot between the eyes, another was shot through the side of the face and one through the roof of the mouth. See page 4
Tourist trap
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Is being called for to report suspected acts of domestic violence.
Woman beheaded
REPRESENTATIVES from almost every Spanish region, city and many towns, are in Madrid for this year’s International Tourism Fair (Fitur). Almeria’s
most famous recent son, David Bisbal, is helping to launch the province’s Fitur offering, making a personal appearance on Thursday. See page 6
Killer had history of attacks on women Radioactive remains By Simon Firth
The man who beheaded his former partner at her Almeria home had a history of domestic violence, it has emerged. The 31-year-old killer was “covered from head to toe in blood,” according to reports as police entered the property. Guardia Civil officers found the body of the woman after neighbours reported screams coming from the property in Huércal de Almeria early on Sunday morning. The man, named as Francisco SG, is said to have been trying to escape from the area when he was arrested. The revulsion felt by many at the attack was signified by a silence held at the town hall in
memory of the woman, named only as Antonia GA. The town hall also declared 24 hours of official mourning following her death which they described as the first victim of domestic violence in Andalucia in 2017. The central government delegate for Andalucia, Antonio Sanz, is now calling for “the whole community and not just the victim” to take responsibility for such behaviour and report
suspected acts of domestic violence. It is understood the killer had a brief relationship with his victim which ended in December last year. Although no reason has been given, he had spent the night in Torrecardenas Hospital on Sunday morning before absconding and making his way to the woman’s home where he carried out the attack. So far at least four women
have come forward to report incidents of violence carried out by Francisco SG. He also has convictions for robbery. Mayor Ismael Torres said the circumstances of the woman’s death had left “a lot of anger and a lot of pain.” Francisca Serrano, from the Andalucian Institute of Women, said a young woman’s life had been taken “because a man thought it was his property and ended it.”
ECOLOGISTAS EN ACCION is going to sue the Nuclear Safety Board (CSN) for “allowing an illegal nuclear cemetery in Palomares,” and there is still no news on the clear-up. Fifty-one years after the accident which saw two American planes collide above Almeria, dropping nuclear bombs onto Palomares from above, thousands of cubic metres See page 12 of earth remain contaminated, the group complained.
Parents’ protest PARENTS of pupils of Albox’s Francisco Fenoy school, which is due to close down at the end of this academic year, are gathering support and have pledged to fight for its survival. In just hours, the parents’ association collected more than 1,000 signatures in support of their cause on change.org. See page 66