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Body found THE crew of a British boat have found the body of a 23-year-old from VelezMalaga who disappeared while fishing with friends off the coast of Cadiz Province last month. A Guardia Civil and coastguard patrol was despatched to the area about 10 kilometres off the town of Barbate when the remains of Fidel Jimenez Marin were found. The 23-year-old was living in the town at the time of his disappearance on Sunday July 22. Juan Toro, a friend of the 23-year-old who was fishing with him on July 22, said the body was identified by its diving suit. Fidel Jimenez and Montse Marin, the 23-yearold’s parents, said the discovery had put an end to more than two weeks of “nightmare and uncertainty.” They travelled to the town last Monday where they began making arrangements to transfer their son’s body back to Velez-Malaga. Pathologists are now due to conduct a post-mortem examination on Jimenez Marin’s remains. Fidel Jimenez Marin was fishing with two friends around eight kilometres off the shoreline in roughly 16metre-deep waters when he fell in the water. Toro said he saw Jimenez floating face down and unconscious in the water. He had tried to pull him out, but currents swept him away.
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ISSUE NO. 1727
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
ALLEGATIONS: The groups said weapons were being shipped out of Motril’s port.
Locked and loaded? Fury over Saudi arms claim
By Joe Gerrard PROSECUTORS in Granada have been urged to probe claims that arms and explosives have been illegally shipped from Motril to Saudi Arabia three times this year. The leftist Motril En Comun group and the regionalist Nacion Andaluza party have both called on authorities to investigate the shipments and halt them if the allegations prove true. The groups claimed the
shipping of military weapons from the port broke several Spanish and European regulations. They have requested further shipments be stopped if an investigation is opened. The first of this year ’s ships, the Bahri Hofuf, left Motril’s port in February laden with explosives and ammunition made at a Granada arms factory. The Bahri Jazan left two months later and a third ship set out on June 26. All were
bound for the Saudi port of Yeddah, the groups claimed. The allegations come as A mne s ty Inte rna tiona l called on Spain and other c ountrie s to c e a s e a rms shipments to Saudi Arabia
earlier this year. The NGO claimed the weapons were being used to target civilians in the ongoing Yemini Civil War which Saudi Arabia has intervened in.
Murder trial GRANADA prosecutors have requested that two defendants set to be tried on attempted murder and robbery charges in Almuñecar be jailed for 14 years if found guilty. The Public Prosecutor ’s Office claimed the defendants, aged 30 and 33, met the alleged victim in the Las Maravillas de La Herradura area of the town in 2017. They then threatened her with a machete and demanded she hand over all her belongings before assaulting her with the blade’s handle. The defendants took a watch, and a mobile phone valued at €110, prosecutors alleged. The woman was taken to hospital as a result of the injuries which included a severed thumb. It took 266 days before she fully recovered. Prosecutors have asked the Second Section of Granada’s Provincial Court to sentence each defendant to nine years in prison for attempted murder and five years for robbery. The court is due to try them in September.