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ISSUE NO. 1749
10 - 16 January 2019
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COSTA DEL SOL
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Worlds apart By Joe Gerrard PEOPLE in an area of Marbella, one of the Costa del Sol’s wealthiest cities, are in or at serious risk of poverty or social exclusion according to an official study. The Junta de Andalucia’s Regional Strategy for Social Cohesion and Inclusion report named the Las Albarizas area as among 14 across Malaga Province facing poverty or social exclusion. Torremolinos Norte was also named among the areas. Malaga Province came joint-second with Sevilla in Andalucia in terms of the amount of areas at risk. The report comes as Marbella is set for a roughly €36 million windfall through 95 council projects this year. The money has come from corruption cases. The Las Albarizas area of Marbella lies just 270 me-
Fugitive held NATIONAL POLICE officers in Malaga City have arrested a 24-year-old man from the Netherlands wanted by Dutch authorities in connection with a fraud investigation. Dutch police investigating alleged counterfeiting and fraud in their country between 2014 and 2016 indentified the 24year-old as a suspect in the case. Proceedings have since been sent to the third Court of Instruction of Spain’s National Court which is set to rule on the suspect’s extradition.
Body probe
GREAT DIVIDE: Areas of Marbella are in poverty. tres from the city’s Calle Norte which runs along its seafront and is eight kilometres from Puerto Banus. Both parts of the city have long been popular with wealthy tourists, residents and expatriates.
Javier Garcia, Marbella Council’s public works spokesperson, said the €36 million spending plan was designed to make the city more ‘liveable.’ Projects include a neighbourhood plan and funding
for investments in sports and cultural facilities, as well as urban conservation. It is unclear if funds will be used specifically to tackle poverty. The Junta report cited the ongoing effects of the last
recession, central government spending cuts and stagnant and falling wages as among the causes of poverty. Malaga Province’s social and welfare services are inadequate to tackle the issue, the study added.
OFFICERS with the National Police have launched an investigation after the body of a 41year-old woman was found inside a Malaga City home on Tuesday. Police said there was no sign at this stage that the death was crime related. The body, which was found at 5.40pm after the woman’s neighbours alerted the police, has since been sent to Malaga’s Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) for post-mortem tests.