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ISSUE NO. 1713
3 - 9 May 2018
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
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Cave fire outrage Families call for sentence review by Joe Gerrard THE mothers of three people who died after an arson attack on a cave house in Almeria have called on Spain’s Constitutional Court to review the sentences of those convicted. Naima El Arbaoui, the mother of 12-year-old Naima who died in the fire, said she and the mothers of Alejandro, 21 and Cinthia, 15 were “dissatisfied” with the original sentences. “We have resorted to the Constitutional Court and we are waiting for an answer to see what happenes,” she said. El Arbaoui was speaking at a rally held outside the cave in the La Molineta area where the man and two teenage girls died on April 3, 2017. Natalia de Haro, Alejandro’s mother, said the sentences handed down in the original trial were not appropriate for a “triple murder.” Raquel Fernandez, the mother of Cinthia, said her and the two other women had put together a petition calling for changes to laws concerning children in criminal cases.
COURT DEMAND: The woman said they had called on Spain’s Constitutional Court to review the sentences. “We have more than 10,000 signatures. People are collaborating with us because there is no responsibility for anything here,” she added. De Haro said they had not yet received a response from authorities but they would continue their campaign to get the law changed. “Another misfortune could occur. If one has come, more can come,” she said.
El Arbaoui said children were still coming onto the site where her daughter, the man and the girl died. “Everything is full of garbage. It has not been cleaned, it is not fenced. You can see there are more chairs and nobody takes charge here,” she said. The rally at the La Molineta cave is the second organised by the women. The first
took place at the Almeria City Court at the beginning of last month.
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Cable criminal NATIONAL POLICE have employed a European arrest warrant to arrest a fugitive in Almeria City. The Romanian suspect, held in the Torrecardenas neighbourhood, was handed over to the authorities of his native country and is facing four years in prison for the crime of aggravated robbery. According to the Local Police, a probe was launched two weeks ago after the International Fugitive Tracing Group issued a report. The report suggested that a man who had allegedly been on the run from Romanian police for six years, was living in Torrecardenas. The crimes for which the 40-year-old detainee was being pursued date back to the period between October 2009 and July 2010. During this time the suspect, either acting alone or with accomplices, stole a significant volume of copper.