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A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud

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Terrazas del Rodeo

Andalucía

Policía Nacional has, with assistance of Europol, dismantled a network smuggling people from Morocco to Spain. 20 suspects have been detained and 6 houses searches has been taken place. More than 150 police officers were deployed in Spain to arrests the suspects, considered dangerous because of their history of violent crimes and suspected possession of weapons.

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Marbella

Guardia Civil and Policía National have dismantled a criminal organization dedicated to trafficking of cocaine in Costa del Sol. Seven people have been detained and more than two kilos of cocaine have been seized. The leader worked as a caretaker in a public school in Marbella and had a wealth of more than half a million euros, although the properties were listed in the names of different relatives.

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Monda / Marbella

Policía Nacional have detained 52 people in a macro-operation against an important international organization dedicated to producing, adulterating and distributing narcotic substances. The operation has been carried out in collaboration with the authorities of five foreign countries coordinated by EUROPOL.

The semi-submersible vessel was located in a warehouse in Monda and was deigned and made by a 55-year-old Cuban, called “Fidel”, who has lived in Marbella since the drug trafficking business by the Galician coast dried up with the fall of the main drug lords.

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Andalucía

Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional have detained 21 people and searched 16 houses in Algeciras (Cádiz), Los Barrios (Cádiz) and Estepona (Málaga). The head of this organization was an old acquaintance of Policía Nacional and Guardia Civil (“Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad del Estado”), nicknamed “el Nimo”. He was the lieutenant of a drug-trafficker who fled from Justice and is known as "Messi”. The Police have detained both him and his closest collaborators.

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Andalucía

Guardia Civil has dismantled a network trafficking lots of hashish and marijuana from Morocco. Besides trafficking drugs they also supplied other criminal organizations with boats, fuel, food and crews. 100 people have been detained and 5,040 kilos of hashish and 230 kilos of marijuana buds have been seized.

Furthermore, a fake weapon, a stun gun, as well as 5 vehicles including two trucks, computers, navigation and communication equipment, and numerous documents have been seized.

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Málaga

Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional have dismantled a criminal network of French origin, trafficking drugs fast to other countries. They were dedicated to intensive cultivation of marijuana on farms in sparsely inhabited areas, as well as the acquisition and stockpiling of large consignments from other suppliers. 11 searches have been carried out and 14 people have been detained.

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Marbella

The leader of one of the most active criminal organizations in the Northeast of France has been arrested in a luxurious penthouse in Marbella, from where he has coordinated much of the criminal activity of this criminal organization. Sex people have been detained and 590 kilograms of hashish, a gun, 24,000 euros in cash and numerous luxurious vehicles have been seized in several actions carried out in a coordinated manner in France and Spain, coordinated by EUROPOL.

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Andalucía

Guardia Civil and the Special Division for Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime of the Polish Police (CBSP) have, in an operation coordinated by Eurojust and Europol, dismantled a criminal organization that has transported marijuana and hashish from Spain to several European countries.

More than 80 searches have been carried out in Spain and Poland, and 110 people have been detained.

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Marbella

Police officers from Unidad Central de Delincuencia Económica y Fiscal (UDEF) in Madrid have carried out search of 10 properties between Marbella and Estepona on Tuesday 2 February 2021. Five homes, four premises and one law firm has been search. The office of the mayor's husband, at Cento Plaza, is among one of the two premises being searched. Nine people have been detained. Among those detained is a Policia Local agent who was an escort for the current mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, in the past, according to marbellaconfidencial.es.

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Policía Nacional leads the international fight against the cultivation and international trafficking of marijuana in an operation in Europe called Operación Verde, which was launched in February 2019 with support of INTERPOL and EUROPOL.

In total 3,695 people have been detained and more than 800 cannabis plantations have been dismantled in different operations carried out throughout Spain from August 2019 to October 2020. These plantations were installed in all types of homes, garages, hideouts, industrial warehouses and even public establishments.

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Madrid

The Spanish authorities are finally taking some action to fight with the terrible situation with squatters that has been present for years in Spain. Action comes after the problem with squatters in Spain has got intense media exposure abroad.

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Terrazas del Rodeo

There has been lots of trouble with the squatters. The young couple with children that moved in and replaced the previous squatters in the squatter apartment in Bloque 6, were violent. The Police took initiative to a court case of domestic violence (“Violencia de Género”) between the squatters. The property owner next door was asked to a witness in court. The young squatter woman withdrew the case meanwhile the property owner next door was sitting waiting to be called in to the court room.

Thereafter, the squatter woman, filed a police report (“Denuncia”) against the property owner who had come to the court as a witness. The case against the property owner next door follow the same pattern and was withdrawn just when the session was supposed to begin in court.

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Marbella

The young man with a Pitbull, who is associated with “Jefe”, has threatened to kill the same man that “Jefe” earlier has been found guilty of threatening. The Judge at court #4 in Marbella found the young man guilty, but instead of paying the modest fine of 90 EUR, he went to a lawyer and appealed against the sentence. The appeal that the lawyer has given in is full of accusations without any proofs being presented.

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Terrazas del Rodeo

The Police knocked the door of an apartment, next to the squatter flat (1-D), in Bloque 6 on 23 June 2019, 7:57 pm. The two policemen wanted to see the mobile phone of the man staying in the flat. They were looking for photos after another property owner, with big debt to the community, had called the Police and reported the man for pedophilia. The policemen looked at the mobile phone and realized it was a false accusation.

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Terrazas del Rodeo

The tenant knocked on the door of an owner occupied apartment and delivered threats in person: “You and your wife are going to have problems with me, I'm going to slap you now, I'm going to hit you, I'm going to finish both of you, you're going to the hospital. . .”.

His defence in court was based on a false story that his daughter had been hit. Despite the fact that the tenant was found guilty he continued to insult the property owner and he also seems to have continue to distribute his fabricated story among people within the community.

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Terrazas del Rodeo

A group of property owners are preparing legal action against the administrator and the president for mismanagement of the community. Besides possible economical mismanagement, many property owners have experienced trouble with the administration for not replying to emails and avoiding dealing with issues.

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Terrazas del Rodeo

It has been a problem for a number of years with potential dangerous dogs within the community where the owners do not comply with the legislation. Both the administration and the president of the community have been informed about the situation long time ago, but they seem to have been avoiding to fulfill their duties to take action to solve the problem.

Besides that potential dangerous dogs must have a muzzle on and be on a lead, the owner also must have a license and a liability insurance that covers up to 175.000 EUR per claim in case of damage caused by the dog. It is important for any community to know that every owner of potential dangerous dogs within the community has a valid license and a liability insurance.

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