Policewoman sacked

FRIDAY, August 10 was the big day at the Legends of Rock festival in Villena with a performance by Megadeth, this year’s headliner and one of the biggest heavy metal bands of all time.

Given the visit of this historic band, Vil lena City Council invited the band to sign in the Book of Hon our, a proposal that was sent to the musicians through their promoter, and that lead singer and guitarist Dave Mustaine welcomed with pleasure and pride.

Minutes before his performance, Mustaine himself and his companions, drummer Dirk Verbeuren and bassist James LoMenzo, received the mayor of Villena, Fulgencio Cerdán, and the councillor for Events, Javier Martínez, who, accompanied by Marcos Rubio, had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with the musicians.

Subsequently, Mustaine put his signature on the book, where he penned “to the mayor of the beautiful city of Villena, it is a pleasure to play for your city and your people. God bless all the citizens of Villena.”

Founded in Los Angeles in 1983 by Dave Mustaine, after being kicked out of Metallica, where he held the position of lead guitarist, Megadeth is considered one of the four great bands of its genre.

A 45-YEAR-OLD officer of the Central Unit for Specialised and Violent Crime (UDEV) of the Elche National Police has lost her status as a public official after being convicted of passing information and helping her boyfriend launder money. She met him when she was investigating him for an incident at a shopping centre.

On Friday, August 11, The Official State Gazette (BOE) published the news, which had been signed by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez Ruiz. Ruiz declared the loss of status as an official of the National Police Corps and a sentence of special disqualification of three years and three months for the crimes of revealing secrets and money laundering, as a result of her relationship with the criminal. Prosecuted on July 12, 2022, the officer was convicted by the Eleventh Section of the Provincial Court of Alicante, based in Elche, for events that occurred between March and October 2019.