ISSUE NO. 1686
26 Oct - 1 Nov 2017
A XARQUÍA - C OSTA T ROPICAL
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WORK on Nerja’s troubled water treatment plant is set to continue after a six month delay. It comes after the national government’s subdelegate in Malaga, Miguel Briones, confirmed that the Environmental Ministry has reached an agreement with a temporary union of companies formed by the contractors Corsan-Corviam Construcciones and Isolux Ingenieria. Last month it was revealed that following pressure from the Association of Entrepreneurs of Nerja, the Ministry had agreed a scheme to fund and manage the works. For months politicians in Nerja had demanded Spain’s central government help in resuming works to Nerja’s sewage treatment plant. Miguel Angel Heredia, the socialist PSOE party’s deputy leader in Malaga, claimed the lack of a solution over the halted project was an “insult,” and the government had not shown “the slightest interest” in getting involved.
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DRAMA: The dead-end street and (inset) Volkswagen Golf stopped in Marbella.
Hot pursuit! Police open fire on high-end cars By Matt Ford A manhunt has been launched after a high speed car chase and police shootout in Torrox. It comes after officers were forced to open fire to avoid being mowed down by two high-end BMWs. The drama unfolded after a Local Police patrol tried to stop three vehicles that “were performing suspicious and evasive manoeuvres,” an official said.
But the cars sped away, leading to a pursuit. The first, a Volkswagen Golf, headed for the A-7 motorway and was intercepted at a toll booth in Marbella several hours later, with two Spanish men, from Ceuta and Algeciras respectively, remanded in custody. Meanwhile the other two cars, both BMW 7-series and each containing two people believed to be foreign, hurtled through the centre of Torrox Pueblo for almost three kilometres before taking a dead-
Property Special VELEZ-MALAGA’S conservative Partido Popular (PP) party has reportedly slapped the town’s mayor with a court order for cancelling an extraordinary council meeting. The group, who requested the meeting, argue Antonio Moreno Ferrer is breaching their civil rights after he axed the event. A second meeting was scheduled for October 9 but the PP has said it will launch a fresh complaint after claiming that the mayor refused a debate on certain economic issues.
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end turn near the town’s cemetery. When the chasing officers realised, they parked at the end of the street, blocking most of it with their car and leaving just a two-metre gap. And as they drew their weapons and shouted for the fugitives to step out of their vehicles, the officers instead saw both spin around and accelerate towards them, leading them to open fire, aiming at the wheels and engines. But the ploy failed and the men were forced to dive to safety as the cars shot by, sparking a major search operation. Initial reports suggest that the incident was related to drugs trafficking or robberies.
Court case begins A TOTAL of 34 people have been summoned to court to be questioned over their role in Nerja’s illegal landfill. Most are local businessman working in the construction sector, while three former politicians are also facing serious questions. A court in Torrox will now decide whether they were complicit in the illegal use of a beauty spot as a landfill. The investigation, which began in August last year, revealed the potential fraud of €2.5 million to cover the costs that would have been incurred if the waste had been disposed of legally. As previously reported in the Euro Weekly News the site, which is located in the Natural Park of the Sierras Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama, was previously a working quarry owned by the council. The area was later used as a dumping ground for 16 years, between 2000 and September 2016.