11 - 17 January 2018
COSTA DEL SOL
POLICE are probing the death of a three-year-old French boy killed by a British driver on the Costa del Sol. Emergency services have confirmed that the victim was a member of the local Jewish community and that the incident is currently being treated as accidental. It comes after police said that the occupants of the vehicle were four British holidaymakers aged between 20 and 24. They had stopped in the car park of the Casa Rusia shopping centre in San Pedro de Alcantara, Marbella, to pick up a baseball cap that had blown out of an open window as they drove through the adjacent El Embrujo housing estate.
And as they moved to leave their car struck the child, who had just been let out of a parked vehicle by his grandmother. Paramedics were unable to do anything to save him after arriving at the scene. The driver of the car was breathalysed but had not been drinking alcohol, while a local magistrate will decide whether criminal charges should be pressed following an investigation. The incident has been misreported in the UK national press, with several media outlets stating that the victim was a girl. But, speaking exclusively with the Euro Weekly News, an official from the 061 emergency service confirmed that the child was a boy.
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Car park death probe By Matt Ford
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Gunfight leads to drugs haul Police seized a drugs and weapons stash in Marbella following a shoot-out which left two men injured. The Spanish victims, 25 and 29, were admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds, but further details about their condition are not known. Both are thought to have been involved in drug trafficking, according to reports. More than 1,200 kilos of hashish, two live firearms, ammunition, three airguns
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SEIZED: Footage from the police operation. and nearly €8,000 in cash were retrieved, a police official said. They say the stash was found in a house
on Calle Camino de Santiago which was used as a ‘hashish daycare centre’ by the traffickers.
Drought call will be made Prison shock THE authorities are to push on with an official drought decree. Jose Fiscal, the Junta de Andalucia’s Environment councillor, confirmed that the recent rain and snow has been “insufficient” to top up the area’s
beleaguered reservoirs, which are currently at 36.3 per cent of capacity. It comes after local reservoirs in Malaga Province accumulated an extra two billion litres of water during the spate of bad weather.
THE Spanish government say they have removed all the migrants in Archidona prison. The move follows a death and reports of self-harm in the facility. Full story - page 20