14 - 20 December 2017
COSTA DEL SOL
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ISSUE NO. 1693
€35m job concerns MARBELLA Council has been accused of ignoring the unemployed. The claim was made by former mayor Jose Bernal, a member of the socialist PSOE party who was in August replaced by his conservative Popular Party counterpart Angeles Muñoz. It comes after the city hall confirmed it is to hand contracts worth €35 million to private firms for management of public facilities. Mr Bernal said: “We are facing a spiral of privatisation that is killing the illusions of 13,000 people who scour the job boards every week.”
Brazen thieves filmed in act FOOTAGE of a theft at a Costa del Sol restaurant has gone viral on social media. The video was uploaded by the eatery’s owner in an attempt to identify the robbers. Images appear to show two individuals enter the premises on Calle Muroon several times and leave with a number of items. They reportedly stole €700 in cash, as well as a plasma TV and lottery tickets.
UNBELIEVABLE: The thieves make off with tomatoes and (inset) the scene in the wake of the fatal crash.
EXCLUSIVE By Matt Ford This is the shocking moment that looters ransacked the scene of a deadly lorry crash. At least seven people ran off with their arms full of tomatoes, which the wrecked vehicle was carrying in its trailer, while others arrived to pay their respects to the driver, who died in the accident. Among them was British expatriate Andrea Brown, 54, who captured the images after heading down to the site with her husband. “We went down with a candle and a white rose to show solidarity,” she told the Euro Weekly News. “At first I thought they were doing the same, but then we realised they were brazenly
Looters strike
Raiders pillage wrecked lorry walking off with crates of tomatoes! “We were very shocked and upset to think that the poor man had only been gone a couple of hours and these people just didn’t seem to care. “That man could have been a husband and father. “The scene was taped off but we didn’t see a single policeman on the beach, they were all up on the road attending to the broken barrier.” The raid - which took place after the driver’s body had been
removed by medics - has not been reported by local Spanish media. It comes after the articulated lorry careered off the A-7 dual carriageway on a notoriously dangerous bend in La Cala de Mijas, smashing through the crash barrier and plummeting several metres onto the beach. The driver was reportedly killed instantly, and the tractor unit was so badly damaged that his body remained trapped inside while firefighters worked to cut it free.
Police are probing the cause of the incident, which sparked fresh calls for the regional authorities to improve safety on the hazardous stretch, since it continues to be an accident black spot despite installation of average speed cameras and prominent signage. Francisco Sepulveda, president of La Cala de Mijas resident’s association, said: “The radar has reduced the number of accidents, but it is still rare that a month goes by without one… they need to change the layout.”