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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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