26 Oct - 1 Nov 2017
COSTA BLANCA SOUTH
Drugs high on a roof : Policia Nacional
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ISSUE NO. 1686
ENVIRONMENTAL DISGRACE: Mar Menor.
Sea change FIELD OF DRUGS: Two arrested.
NATIONAL POLICE officers have arrested two Dutch nationals - aged 35 and 46 - in connection with alleged drug trafficking in Lorca. Investigations focused on houses in country areas that had been rented to non-Spanish EU citizens, based on previous intelligence that suspected the owners were growing marihuana indoors. A subsequent collaboration between National and Local Police in Lorca then visited the suspected locations and found two plantations of the drug. They found a very sophisticated system of irrigation and environmental controls. The arrested men had even set up a cultivation area on the roof of one of the warehouses in an attempt to hide the plants from any internal search. In total, 4,300 marihuana plants were seized.
Prosecutor confirms legal case By Ben Park Murcia regional High Prosecutor, José Luis Díaz Manzanera, confirmed yesterday that he is finalising a lawsuit regarding alleged environmental crimes around Mar Menor. The legal action could be submitted before the end of October. Although the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the region did not offer more details on the content of the document, the research, that has been developing for a year, is expected to focus on a group of farms around the stricken lagoon. As previously reported extensively in the Euro Weekly News, it has become so polluted that all of its beaches were
stripped of their blue flag status earlier this year. According to reports, the farms are accused of generating chemical spills and brines, with the document also focusing on political leaders who have allowed degradation to reach almost irreversible levels.
Party plunge FIVE young girls, aged between five and seven-yearsold, have been injured after falling through a skylight while playing at a birthday party in Alicante. The five fell from a height of five metres from street level into an underground garage at the Florencia urbanisation in Cabo de las Huertas. Three of the chidren were taken by ambulance to the Alicante General Hospital intensive care unit, while the other two were taken to the Hospital de San Juan. Local and National Police attended the incident alongside fire brigade and ambulance crews.
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