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London calling By Joe Duggan in Westminster
AN estimated 50,000 antiBrexit supporters have protested on the streets of London. The People’s March for Europe went from Park Lane to Parliament Square where the mixed crowd heard speeches from Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative politicians. Sir Bob Geldof sent a message of support, with ex-Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey telling the crowd he felt ‘embarrassment’ at the current Brexit negotiations. “I've gone from anger to distress, from fury to despair. But since the Brexit negotiations begun there's a third emotion I've been feeling...Embarrassment at our country's leaders. Embarrassment for Great Brit-
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EXPAT: ‘I’ve been fined €60,000 over rental’ A LEADING Mallorca businessman has told the Olive Press how he paid a €30,000 fine this month after inspectors turned up unannounced at one of his rural rental properties. The expat, who has asked not to be named, paid a 50% reduced penalty within the ‘two-week discount period’ after originally being fined €60,000. He revealed he was visited by an inspector after expecting to rent his
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€3,000-a-week property - via Airbnb - to a family of four from Madrid in August. He was caught as he only has one licence for three adjacent units and, according
to the new law, he needs three - one per unit. “He turned up and the first thing he asked for was my licence number,” he told the Olive Press. “I told him I had only one for three rentals and I was fined €30,000 per unit. “He had booked
through Airbnb so there was nothing I could do - I lost a whole week’s money.” He added: “It's really unfair as the law came in so fast and it's clear they are after the expats who have money. “Where I live there are loads of local Spanish who didn't get touched. “Another expat I know got caught last week via Airbnb whereas his six neighbours, who also rent via Airbnb, but didn't get caught.”
Locals rally around family accused of being ‘lady bosses’ in sickness claim scandal
‘not guilty!’ CUFFED: Expat family accused of €60 million fraud
ain,” he said. There were heated scenes outside the Lord Moon of the Mall pub when Leave and Remain supporters traded insults before Remainer Middleton Mann defused the situation by hugging one of the Leave supporters. “Remaining is all about kindness, unity and togetherness and the spirit of solving problems together,” Londoner Mann, 51, a creative agency manager told the Olive Press. “It didn’t solve anything by booing at him so I gestured at him to come over and have a hug. We are not going to get anywhere fighting.” Further up the Mall, Boris Johnson lookalike Drew Galdron entertained crowds with a live music performance, holding a Theresa May puppet. “Since anti-Brexit events like the Number 10 vigil started I have been at quite a few of them performing songs lampooning Boris,” he said.
By Joe Duggan and Ben Reus
MALLORCA’S expat community has rallied round Debbie Cameron and daughter Laura Joyce following their arrests last week. Friends have spoken of their ‘shock’ after Brits Cameron, 59, and Joyce, 28, were held over an alleged €60 million sickness-claim scam involving UK tourists. Joyce, who is eight months pregnant, appeared in court alongside four alleged ‘claims farmers’ last week, after the family’s Bendinat villa was raided. Cameron, who denied the claims and was released the following day, has hired top
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the papers’.” A young hairdresser from Cambridge and a middle-aged woman from Edinburgh are among those alleged to have been paid commissions for providing bogus ‘victims’. The pair are said to have enlisted the holidaymakers and filed over their information to UK lawyers who made the fraudulent compensation claims. EXPATS: Debbie and Laura and (right) with beau Another friend of Cameron’s said ‘I can’t believe she would lawyer Jaume Riutort, famous “I am massively shocked,” have any involvement in it or for securing the acquittal of said one friend. “Debbie is know what was going on’. Princess Cristina, King Fe- very religious and does a lot of Altogether, seven people, sevlipe’s sister, over alleged tax work with charities. eral of them Brits, were arrestevasion. “I have spoken to Laura who ed in last week’s raids on four But people close to the family has thanked me for my sup- homes and two businesses in have expressed surprise over port and said: ‘don’t believe Portals Nous, San Agustin and last week’s arrests. everythingUntitled-1.pdf you have read1 in 16/06/2017 Bendinat,15:36 with Joyce allowed
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to return to her family last Thursday. Self-professed ‘rich mum’ Cameron, originally from London, and Joyce were detained during the raid on a luxury property in Bendinat. Meanwhile large quantities of documents were seized at a popular sports bar in Portals Nous, run by Laura's husband Stuart Joyce. Another friend said: “I'm pretty shocked by it. Laura was always nice to me and always looked after her staff. “It's a small island and even smaller as an expat. Things like this can really make or break a small community.” A Guardia Civil spokesperson confirmed that an investigation into the allegedly fraudulent claims began at the end of May after Alcudia hotel bosses filed denuncias with the police. Last month, leaked police documents revealed that Mac Hotels had allegedly been hit with €4m of sickness claims, some 800 altogether. Claims are made against UK tour operators, who then deduct payments and legal fees from Spanish hotels.