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Gang tortures Xàbia resident to death
Crime/Incidents 17/09/2004
Gang tortures Xàbia resident to death

A German national died in Jávea last Saturday after he and his wife were tortured in their own home.The 69-year-old former restaurant owner was asleep with his wife in bed last Saturday night when intruders gained...

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Crime/Incidents 19/09/2005
Calpe police investigate mystery body found on beach

A local man found the body of a man at 6am this morning on Capri beach in the town of Calpe. The victim's identity has not been confirmed, but he is described as a European man, thought to be aged around 35 years...

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Crime/Incidents 21/01/2006
Nearly half Alicante jail inmates are immigrants

Alicante's Fontcalent prison has more than the national average of foreign internees according to a recent report. Of the 960 prisoners inside Fontcalent, 46.6% are foreigners of some fifty nationalities, whilst the...

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Crime/Incidents 07/08/2007
Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork

Heartless vandals have destroyed cave paintings dating back thousands of years with graffiti. Fluorescent yellow paint was sprayed over carvings, thought to be around 8,000 years old, inside the Cova de la Clau in Palma...

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