Crime/Incidents news & information for Spain

SPAIN has stepped up to help Morocco after a devastating earthquake left nearly 2,500 dead, and numerous organisations have given details of how to donate aid.

NATIONAL telecomms giant Telefónica has created an anti-car theft phone App for less than the cost of a glass of wine per month.

A MAN declared dead at his home in the province of Tarragona was on his way to the funeral parlour when he turned out to be alive, according to police sources.

A SICILIAN mafia 'godfather' who had been on the run for 20 years was captured in Madrid thanks to a photo on Google Maps, police say.

A NEW child protection law named after a British musician living in Spain has been approved in Congress and is set to be signed off by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, June 8.

OVER two million items for sale on Amazon and found to be fakes or non-existent were deleted by the company's anti-fraud team in 2020 alone, according to its Brand Protection Report, and a handful of firms...

LATE deputy president of Spain Alfredo Pérez-Rubalcaba has been awarded the highest distinctions within the National Police and Guardia Civil – two forces he was leader of for five years.

BARELY 16 hours, but the whole of Spain gripped with terror and high-profile lives on the line – this day, February 23, was one of the longest nights in recent living memory 40 years ago. And King Felipe VI, masked...

PROPERTY tycoon Juan Carlos Quer has thanked his daughter posthumously on Twitter for her 'legacy' after her rapist and killer, José Enrique Abuín Gey, was sentenced today to permanent reviewable prison.

A YOUNG woman from Elche lured into a dangerous cult in Perú has said she can 'now get on with her life' after hearing her captor has been jailed for 20 years.

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy's killer could become the first woman in Spain to be sentenced to permanent prison subject to review now that she has been found guilty of the murder in February 2018.

THE ANSWER to the burning question, “has anyone ever tried to steal the Ale-Hop cow?” is now officially 'yes' – a man was arrested in a Palma de Mallorca shopping centre after being chased by security...