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‘I apologise’ suspect says ANA JULIA QUEZADA, the woman who allegedly murdered eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz, has spoken out about the crime in an open letter. Quezada wrote that she had acted out of “fear” and that his death was an accident. She added much of the reaction to her alleged part in the crime was racist in character. “I know that I have no excuse for the accident. I removed the person you love, the greatest thing one can have, a son. I hope that one day I can forgive myself,” she added. Quezada said she would always maintain the crime was an accident because she
knew it was “the truth.” She added she was “very shocked” by what she claimed were lies told about her. “I have been treated very badly by certain people. When I arrived in prison it seemed like heaven because they treated me properly,” she wrote. “I see people took a black plastic doll and burnt it as if they burnt me. I am no more a monster than those people.” Gabriel Cruz’s body was allegedly found in the back of Quezada’s car following a 13-day search around Nijar in Almeria. The investigation into the death remains ongoing.
Marble mining gets green light ALMERIA’S Economy minister, Miguel Ángel Tortosa López, has given Triturados Macael SA mining company permission to open a 36.5-acre marble mine in Lijar. The minister claimed that mining is one of Andalucia’s main productive sectors and ‘has the capacity to generate wealth and employment.’ He added that Andalucia’s government is cutting red tape that delays mine openings and backing research and development in the sector, while also respecting environmental law and that projects are sustainable. This project has the support of the environment ministry thanks to a land restoration and waste management plan that
guarantees the restauration of 84,000 metres cubed of affected land. The mining company will hold the mining rights for as long as it occupies the land. But it must meet conditions including appointing an expert director, starting works within six months, presenting a plan for the following year and keeping the mine’s boundaries in perfect condition.
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Brit drugs rap Credit: Guardia Civil
ISSUE NO. 1711
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
By Benjamin Park A BRITISH MAN has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of selling ecstasy pills at the Dreambeach Villaricos music festival. According to police, the man was stopped while attending the popular event in Cuevas del Almanzora. During a search, he was found to be carrying several different drugs, including 37 MDMA tablets and a ‘vegetable substance’ which contained THC, the psychoactive component found in cannabis. Appearing in the Provincial Court of Almeria earlier this week, he reportedly pleaded guilty to a crime against public health and was handed a two-year suspended sentence plus a €750 fine.
SENTENCED: The man was found guilty of selling ecstasy at the Dreambeach Villaricos festival in 2015.
‘Olive ebola’sparks scare ANDALUCIA’S olives could be under threat from a deadly disease. It comes as the Junta de Andalucia regional gove r n m e n t ’s M i n i s t r y o f Agriculture, Food and the Environment confirmed that the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa - dubbed ‘olive ebola’ - has been found on a nursery in Almeria. The incurable infection is native to the Americas and the first European cases were spotted in Puglia,
Italy, in 2013. But authorities failed to track its spread and it ravaged more than a million trees before spreading to Corsica, mainland France, and the Balearic Islands. It last year appeared in t h e Va l e n c i a r e g i o n b u t this is the first appearance of the killer bug in Andalucia. An official said that there is no immediate concern as the bacterium was found only in three orna-
mental plants in a greenhouse and is “an isolated case, not an outbreak.” It was not detected in more than 400 surrounding trees, according to reports.