Crime/Incidents news & information for Spain

THE United Nations has condemned the lenient verdict over the gang-rape of an 18-year-old in Pamplona, saying it 'underestimates the damage' suffered by the victim.

BASQUE separatist terrorists ETA is due to make a 'key announcement' on Friday in Cambo-les-Bains, south-western France, and speculation has been rife as to whether the organisation planned to break up – but...

AROUND 200 migrants have died attempting to make their way to Spain so far this year – over a third of the total for Europe and nearly four times the death toll of the same period in 2017, according to the...

A TELEVISION documentary on the BBC is planned covering the death of Scottish newlywed Kirsty Maxwell in a fall from a 9th-floor Benidorm hotel.

SPAIN'S justice minister Rafael Catalá has faced calls to resign after criticising the magistrate who voted for the five Pamplona gang-rapists to be acquitted of all charges except that of stealing the victim's...

THE young woman who was gang-raped by the self-styled 'Manada' or 'Herd' at Pamplona's Sanfermínes festival in 2016 has announced she will appeal against the lenient sentence awarded to the five men...

A FAMILY from Spain's north-western region of Galicia says a man identical to the photo-fit image of Madeleine McCann's suspected kidnapper attempted to abduct their little girl six years earlier.

TWO world-famous actresses have hit out at the court verdict which saw five members of a Sevilla street gang who raped an 18-year-old woman during Pamplona's Sanfermínes bull-running festival acquitted of rape and...

DEMONSTRATIONS across Spain and Europe have taken place today (Thursday) in protest over a Navarra court's having convicted a group of men who gang-raped a woman at a fiesta for 'sexual abuse' rather than...

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.

A HOTEL in Palma de Mallorca had to be evacuated last night (Sunday) after a balcony collapsed, sparking fears of major structural damage.