Crime/Incidents news & information for Spain

AN ONLINE bomb warning in English led to a Swedish man being arrested in Alcúdia (Mallorca), Guardia Civil officers reveal.

A LONE terrorist who staged a knife attack on a police station in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona province) was 'suicidal' because he knew he was gay and feared rejection from the Muslim community, according...

AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman is in a critical condition at Palma de Mallorca's Son Espases hospital after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in the popular beach holiday zone of Palmanova.

RELATIVES and friends of those killed in the Spanair crash at Madrid Barajas Terminal 2 marked the 10th anniversary of one of Spain's worst air disasters today outside the monument set up for the victims in the Juan...

POLICE in Catalunya are treating an incident involving a lone knife-bearer in the early hours as terrorism, but do not believe the would-be attacker was linked to any radical Islamic organisation.

The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has discovered the remains of four men allegedly shot by Franco's forces during the Civil War between August 12th and 13th 1936 in Boadilla (Salamanca).

A SPANISH tourist who was crossing the Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy when it collapsed killing 39 people says he feels as though he has been 'born again'.

A FRAUDSTER used a fake ID card bearing a photograph of the actor Alec Baldwin to take out loans from banks in Oviedo (Asturias) which he had no intention of paying back, say National Police.

A MOUNTAINEER from the Basque Country who crashed his helicopter in the wilds of Tajikistan at an altitude of 7,500 metres has been found – alive.

AN ESTIMATED 312 spectators have been injured – nine of them seriously – after a wooden platform collapsed during the O Marisquiño fiestas in Vigo (Galicia) last night.

A BRITISH former rugby player is in police custody after reportedly tying up, beating and raping a young woman in Mallorca.

A GERMAN tourist has been caught red-handed stealing archaeological artefacts from a restricted excavation site in Cartagena (Murcia).