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FLATMATE ATTACK A MAN has been arrested in Malaga City for allegedly attempting to sexually assault his flatmate on Christmas Eve. The alleged attack took place in the bathroom of a home in the northern part of the city. The victim and the alleged aggressor shared a rented house with the partner of the former. It was the victim’s boyfriend who stopped the attack when he heard her call for help. While giving help, the victim’s boyfriend suffered a superficial knife cut to his neck. Police called to the property arrested the alleged assailant, a 29year-old Moroccan man, for his alleged involvement in the crimes of sexual assault and battery.
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ILLEGAL JOBS THE Social Security labour inspection has uncovered 2,059 illegal jobs in Malaga Province and has forced the infringing companies to regularise the position of the workers. This figure corroborates an increase in illegal work when compared to the previous year’s data, in which the number was 1,857.
SAVING LIVES MALAGA City will extend the network of defibrillators to improve coverage in the busiest areas of the city and complement the existing 280 devices. Currently, the equipment is placed in libraries, social centres, sports facilities, buses and other public buildings. Visit https://desfibriladores.mala ga.eu/territorio/callejero/.
DRUGS HAUL: Thousands of kilos of hashish were found. A GANG that allegedly planned to steal drugs from a rival criminal organisation and kill the man guarding the narcotics has been broken up. As part of the police operation 26 people alleged to be part of a ring that transported huge amounts of hashish from Malaga to Paris and Marseille in France have been arrested. In Operation Tenebro, the Guardia Civil and the French National Gendarmerie arrested the alleged leaders of the group in France, while those suspected of being in charge of logis-
tics, storage and distribution of the drugs were arrested in Malaga. They are all charged with the crimes of membership of a criminal organisation, drug trafficking, vehicle theft and false documentation. Of the 19 searches carried out in Paris, Marseilles, Nerja, Marbella and Estepona, 5,950 kilos of hashish, €750,000 in cash, five high-end vehicles one stolen in France and recovered in Spain - were seized, as well as numerous information and communication systems. An investigation started more than a year ago and was developed in several phases. In
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the first phase, the Guardia Civil learned of the organisation’s intention to kill a person in charge of guarding the drugs of several drug trafficking organisations. The detainees, police say, wanted to steal the drugs and frame the person they allegedly planned to kill for the theft. A first police operation established in Nerja stopped four members of the organisation when they tried to escape in a
vehicle. In the search of a house, a fifth person was arrested and 2,100 kilograms of hashish and several French number plates were found. Following these initial arrests, a joint investigation was launched with the French National Gendarmerie. This exchange of information between the two police forces led to the seizure of 3,850 kilos of hashish on French soil and 22 more arrests.
Werewolf charges CRIMINAL proceedings may be brought in a case where 23 children suffered from ‘werewolf’ syndrome after they were mistakenly given the wrong medicine. Malaga’s Public prosecutor has told the city’s District Court that investigations show there is evidence of criminal responsibility in the case. The children suffered from hypertrichosis, a condition that causes hair to grow all over the body. Health authorities confirmed last September that 23 children were affected - 10 in Cantabria, 10 in Andalucia and three in the Community of Valencia. The prosecutor has now referred the proceedings to the court for the initiation of criminal proceedings and requests that two heads of the company Farma-Química Sur SL, based in Malaga, be heard as investigated people. The pharmaceutical company allegedly marketed a mislabelled product that included minoxidil instead of omeprazole. Minoxidil is usually used to treat alopecia.