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Andalucía

Policía Nacional y Vigilancia Aduanera de la Agencia Tributaria, in collaboration with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in UK, have dismantled a criminal organization led by a historic British drug trafficker and have intervened more than one and a half ton of hashish.

A total of ten people have been detained in the autonomous city of Ceuta and in the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga.

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Estepona

The 34-year-old man has been using a multitude of false profiles on Internet in which he pretended to be younger and, in this way, gain the trust of his victims. The minor reported the sexual assault through the AlertCops application.

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Madrid

The Spanish government has added the UK and Japan to the list of those countries where there is no need to present a negative COVID-19 test to enter Spain. This change takes affect from midnight on 24 May.

Further changes are expected to take place in June and July that will make it easier for more people to travel to Spain.

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Málaga

Policía Nacional has participated in dismantling a criminal organization allegedly dedicated to the trafficking of medicinal substances that they masked as nutritional products in a joint operation with the Carabinieri of Italy and the Romanian Police that has been coordinated by EUROPOL.

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Europol has today published six images – a t-shirt, a wristband, a bag – that they want as many people to look at as possible. The investigators have exhausted all the investigative leads and is turning to the public for further information.

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Andalucía

The state of emergency in Spain, which the Spanish government gained support by the parliament in October 2020, ended on 9 May 2021. With the end of the state of emergency, the existing curfew and lockdowns end, and the number of people who meet at home can no longer be regulated.

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Andalucía

Guardia Civil has detained 8 people whom are members of one of the most important and active criminal organizations dedicated to trafficking large quantity of hashish from Morocco to Spain. Among those arrested is a Spanish citizen of Moroccan origin (MLM) considered one of the most prominent drug traffickers operating between Morocco and the Andalusian coasts and another Italian (PV) who is wanted by the Italian authorities for his membership in the Camorra Napolitana, with several pending legal cases in Italy mainly for drug trafficking and "mafia-type association".

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Andalucía

More than seven tons of hashish, carried by a tugboat, has been seized in a new hit against the international drug trafficking in Campo de Gibraltar. It was carried out in a joint operation between Polcía Nacional, Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria). Three people were detained.

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The dismantled organization was "multi-crime" by combining drug trafficking with the manufacture, storage and distribution of illegal medicines through cells distributed throughout Spain, in addition to preparing "potions" or "combos" mixing illegal drugs for direct injection.

The operation has been carried out in permanent contact with the AEPSAD (Agencia Española de Protección de la Salud en el Deporte) who has provided vital information and advice for the successful completion of the investigation.

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Democracy cannot be taken for granted and it should not be reduced to the ability for people to be able to vote. Healthy democracies require transparency, accessibility and limited terms of those in power, to counteract greed and corruption that follow mankind.

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Andalucía

Guardia Civil has completely dismantled a criminal organization dedicated mainly to trafficking cocaine in secret compartments in vehicles. In total, 20 people have been detained and 17 home searches have been carried out in the towns of Málaga, Córdoba, Torremolinos and Estepona. 21 kilograms of cocaine, 30 kilograms of hashish and 1,029,000 euros in cash have been intervened in the operation, among other effects.

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Andalucía

Guardia civil has dismantled an important criminal organization dedicated to trafficking large quantity of hashish from Morocco to Spain, within the framework of the operation "Desvanes-Dunas 20". The criminals have also offered their services to other gangs to trafficking drugs by “narcolanchas”.

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Marbella

Policía Nacional has, in collaboration with the Danish police authorities, arrested people belonging to a drug-trafficking organization and in relationship with an assassination attempt of a leader of another criminal organization as a result of a settling of scores about disagreements related to trafficking of drugs.

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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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Marbella

The national Spanish women's team has defeated the Netherlands in a match played in Marbella (1-0). Patri Guijarro scored the winning goal against the Netherlands.

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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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