ISSUE NO. 1701
8 - 14 February 2018
A XARQUÍA - C OSTA T ROPICAL
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
€15.8m terrain campaign THE Junta de Andalucia regional government is offering developers the chance to buy land in Rincon de la Victoria. The Ministry of Development and Housing is offering 105,976 square metres of land for sale, 47,410 square metres of which can be built on. Developers could build 446 homes on the Victoria Park urbanisation across six plots which are being offered for €15.8 million. The Junta hopes the deal will help overcome issues of overcrowding, vandalism and anti-social behaviour in the area. Francisco Fernandez, Delegate for Development and Housing, explained, “With this initiative we maintain the strategy of selling land owned by the Autonomous Communities, which has achieved such good results in recent years in terms of generating income that will allow us to strengthen our social actions in the field of housing, aimed at helping families with difficulties.” He added the Junta was putting “these assets on the market to service entrepreneurship to promote economic development, and the generation of employment, especially in the construction sector, one of the most damaged during the crisis.” Fernandez concluded the move would also help families in need of social housing, “since this project will give us the resources to resume this type of housing.”
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No touching
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: The controversial plant and (inset) protesters have their say.
A MAN has been banned from a street in Malaga after touching a woman’s bottom. The 30-year-old will not be able to visit the Antonio Machado promenade for two years after he slapped the bottom of a female runner. The accused assaulted his victim while he was on his bicycle before cycling away. The woman immediately called her husband telling him what happened and reporting the man was touching another woman. When two police officers arrived, the man tried to throw his bicycle at them before he was arrested. After giving police someone
else’s name, the man was eventually identified by his fingerprints. After investigating, officers identified four victims, aged between 20 and 43 years old. On questioning, the man acknowledged his crimes and apologised to the women. He also maintained he had smoked a joint and did not know what he was doing. The perpetrator was given a six-month ban per victim from visiting the street on which the attacks took place. He was also given a fine of €1,200 which would entail three months and 10 days of imprisonment if not paid.
Kicking up a stink Kidnapped! Residents rally over ‘broken promises’ More than 700 people have protested over Nerja’s unfinished sewage plant. The demonstration took place in the town’s main streets after patience over the stalled works grew thin. The protest, organised by Nerja’s tripartite council, saw locals walk from the town hall to the plant’s site in the Fuente del Baden area. Politicians from parties PSOE, Izquierda Unida and Ciudadanos took part in the rally alongside members of local business groups. Not present at the protest were members of the Partido
Popular (PP) who called the event, “politically opportunistic and inadmissible.” A spokesperson for the PP added: “We take the opportunity to denounce, when it gets in the way of finding a solution, the nonsense that is this demonstration and the clumsy and incompetent municipal management on the part of the tripartite who deliberately, intentionally and unjustifiably caused the paralysis of vital works.” Works to Nerja’s sewage treatment plant remain stalled at 95 per cent complete after the works’ contractors, Isolux-
Corsan-Corviam, went bankrupt last April. Since then both the Junta de Andalucia and Spain’s central government have stepped in to try to find a solution, holding meetings with Nerja’s councillors as well as pressure groups and local businessmen.
TWO men have been convicted in Malaga for kidnapping a man and forcing him to pay off a debt. The brothers were each given three and a half years in prison for locking their victim in a house and threatening to throw him in a swamp if he did not pay €20,000. The two were convicted for kidnapping, causing injury and violent robbery, and have been forced to pay the man €1,500 in compensation. They have also been banned from being within 500 metres of the man or communicating with him for three years.