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Landfill files request LAWYERS for a defendant charged in connection with an allegedly illegal landfill site in Nerja have asked the court probing the case to request reports from authorities on its management. The lawyer has asked Torrox’s Court of Instruction Number One for the documents from the Governing Boards of the Sierras de Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park and its Directorate. The defence counsel claimed it wanted the paperwork to help determine what decisions, agreements, measures and actions were taken by the authorities over the site. The lawyers argued decrees from June and September 1999 declared any unauthorised dumps such as the one at the centre of the current probe to be illegal. It declared the Natural Park Governing Board as the authority tasked with ensuring unauthorised dumps did not spring up there. The request comes as the Torrox Court dropped charges for several defendants charged in connection with the dump. It was located in a disused quarry in the Rio de la Miel area. A total of 13 defendants are still charged including Nerja’s mayor Rosa Arrabal of the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE).
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ISSUE NO. 1725
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
SEARCHED: Fidel Jimenez (inset) disappeared in waters off Barbate last Sunday.
Diver missing By Joe Gerrard GUARDIA CIVIL officers are set to continue searching today (Thursday) for a 23year-old from Velez-Malaga swept away while spearfishing in Cadiz Province. A maritime rescue helicopter has been drafted in to help find Fidel Jimenez after he was last seen diving in the sea off Barbate around noon last Sunday. Officers with the Guardia
Civil’s underwater branch (GEAS) said he was fishing with two friends around eight kilometres off the shoreline in roughly 16-metre-deep waters. The news comes as Jimenez’s mother Montserrat Marin, 49, said her and her family had “lost all hope” of finding her son alive. “Guardia Civil divers have told us they will keep searching until Thursday. They said after that only maritime and
aerial teams will continue looking as the body usually floats up after 72 hours,” she said in a tearful statement. Marin said Juan Toro, one of the 23-year-old’s friends
who was with him at the time, saw his body floating face down and unconscious in the water. He had tried to pull him out but currents swept her son away, she added.
Food poisoning claims NINE children in La Viñuela have fallen ill with suspected food poisoning at a summer camp in the town. Six of the children were taken to the Regional Hospital of Axarquia where they were treated for mild stomach pains. They were discharged a few hours later, according to Andalucian Emergency services. Emergency services said they were called out in the early hours of last Tuesday morning after camp staff said children were complaining of stomach ache and vomiting. Personnel said none of those treated showed symptoms of a serious illness and have since returned to the camp. An investigation has been opened into what happened at the Conviven site in the Viñas del Lago urbanisation. It remains unknown for certain if the children had food poisoning and if so what caused it.