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ISSUE NO. 1749
10 - 16 January 2019
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Pupils left shivering after vandals trash school for dinner cash STAFF at a school in S’Illot were devastated when they opened the doors on Tuesday morning to find the building had been ransacked, flooded and €1,000 of pupils’ dinner money stolen. The overnight break-in at CEIP Talaiot occurred a day into the new term, and children faced a miserably cold start to the year after the thieves pulled a radiator from the wall, leaving the building without heating, and water everywhere. School sources confirmed ‘drawers were scrambled and they went directly for the money which was a consider-
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by Tara Rippin
SCHOOL BREAK IN: Extensive damage caused and €1,000 stolen.
Bridge death probe AN investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 22year-old man believed to have jumped from a bridge in Palma, before being run over by an unsuspecting motorist. Shortly before the tragic incident at 2.30pm on Sunday, Palma police received a call from a member of the public warning that a ‘young man was walking in the middle of the road in Calle Indalecio Prieto with the obvious risk of being run over.’ A second witness then called to say a young male had thrown himself from a
bridge that connects the neighbourhoods of Son Gotleu and Rafal Vell, over the Via de Cintura de Palma. According to police sources, early indications show the victim ‘voluntarily launched himself from the bridge to the road below,’ and that once the body was on the road, ‘a car driven by a girl who was driving correctly could not avoid the collision and ran over the man’. The National Police has launched an investigation to determine whether the death was suicide or accidental.
able amount because the previous day the families had paid the quarter of the dining room costs and the children’s snacks’. Sources added that boxes full of important documents were ‘ruined’ by the water, windows were smashed and locked doors were forced open. CEIP Talaiot management reported the break-in to Manacor police and officers from the scientific support carried out a lengthy and detailed inspection of the school, gathering evidence. A police spokesman said that ‘it is striking the thugs did not take the computers. They were looking for money and it seems they knew where it was.’