Crime/Incidents news & information for Andalucia

ONE of the Pamplona Sanfermines gang-rapists recently released on bail may have wasted his €6,000 release fund as he could be about to go back to custody after attempting to apply for a new passport, despite a ban on...

A COSTA del Sol man has been arrested for killing hens with rat poison because their clucking kept him awake at night.

FEMINIST groups are attempting to keep the recently-released gang rapists isolated from society now they are back on the streets.

POLICE at the Gibraltar border town of La Línea de la Concepción were ambushed by drug-smugglers who pelted their patrol cars with molotov cocktails.

SELF-CONFESSED killer of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz Ramírez and ex-girlfriend of the victim's father, Ana Julia Quezada, is due to appear in court again today (Monday) for a further hearing.

MIGRANTS who risked their lives on the high seas to reach Spain were kidnapped and held to ransom by a gang based in Algeciras (Cádiz province), the southernmost town on the mainland.

A BRAWL between at least 30 mums at a children's ball park in the far south-western city of Huelva (Andalucía) has left several of the women with minor injuries, National Police say.

THE husband of one of Europe's most dangerous and hunted ISIS terrorists has been arrested in Málaga for financing her trip to Syria, National Police say.

ALMERÍA schoolboy Gabriel Cruz's killer has written an open letter from prison saying the eight-year-old's death was 'an accident' and begging for forgiveness.

A FUGITIVE wanted for murder who belongs to the IRA has been arrested in Fuengirola (Málaga), National Police in the Costa del Sol seaside town confirm.

COASTGUARD officials have rescued 75 migrants in the Strait of Gibraltar and are still searching for another seven missing after five rafts were spotted off Spain's southern coast on Easter Monday.

THREE hikers missing in the mountains of the province of Cádiz during the weekend's storms have been found alive and well in the Garganta Verde ravine in the Grazalema range.