ISSUE NO. 1686
26 Oct - 1 Nov 2017
COSTA DE ALMERÍA
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Guardia Civil
Photo by Ayuntamiento de Cuevas de Almanzora
Mother punished
ABANDONED: Police rescue the victim. A WOMAN who left her infant daughter alone on a high-rise balcony was spared jail. She was, however, given a 10-month suspended sentence for abandoning the three-yearold girl in a dangerous location. Tragedy was averted thanks to a neighbour spotting the girl crying on the balcony from the street below. She had begun clamouring over the railing, having grown hysterical when her mother disappeared for hours, locking her outside. She got half way over the railing before becoming stuck and terrified. The passing stranger immediately called police, who dispatched officers to the scene.
Weekend of despair MORE than 100 immigrants were rescued from sinking ships off the coast of Almeria. Coastguards worked overtime to intercept six separate vessels in a chaotic 24-hour spell over the weekend. A total of 104 people were saved from choppy waters near Carboneras and El Ejido. All were from North Africa and the majority were treated for hypothermia at local hospitals.
NO MORE: Cuevas victim was number 42 in Spain this year.
Murder suicide Local woman killed by husband By Matthew Elliott A silent rally took place in Cuevas del Almanzora after a local woman was murdered. All signs point towards her husband, who was later found hanged and left a message on his friend’s phone confessing to the crime. Maria Dolores, aged 38, was found strangled in the small hamlet of Burjulu where she worked. The Paraguayan national was a carer for an elderly woman, Maria Antonia, in whose home she was killed.
Her body was found with signs of violence early on Sunday morning. Her husband, a Bolivian, hung himself in the gardens of the property. Both bodies were removed by the early afternoon. Cuevas mayor Antonio Fernandez has since revealed that the couple were separated and in the process of getting a divorce. They had an eight-year-old daughter who was in a different municipality at the time. Fernandez expressed his “absolute repulsion, condemnation and rejection of all vi-
olence, especially gender violence.” Two days of mourning were observed by the town hall on Monday and Tuesday. Andalucian president Susana Diaz tweeted her ‘pain and utter condemnation of this new sexist crime.’ ‘All society must fight against this scourge which kills women,’ she wrote. Dolores is the third woman in Almeria Province to be murdered by her partner this year. She is the seventh in Andalucia and the 42nd in Spain.
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Water woe goes on WATER quality should be guaranteed for residents of the Los Velez region, ruled a Spanish senate committee. Members of Spain’s upper house committee on combating climate change said human needs should come ahead of agriculture. Senators urged the government to move immediately to control the water supply to Los Velez inhabitants. Of particular concern is the Sierra Maria-Sierra del Ocre-Llanos de Cullar aquifer. Over the past 15 years some 800 hectares have been switched for use in lettuce and broccoli cultivation, rather than going to people’s homes.