Bob James’ Spanish News Headlines – Visual format – Dateline: 23/10/24 – Latest
A number of searches have taken place in Ireland and Spain this morning targeting the Hutch organised crime group which is suspected of being involved in money laundering across a number of jurisdictions.
Ten searches were conducted in Spain, with the irish Police supporting the the Guardia Civil.
One search took place at a residential property in Dublin following receipt of an International Letter of Request from the Spanish authorities.
The operation is part of ongoing liaison between the Irish Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Guardia Civil which targets the Hutch group which is located both in Ireland and Spain.
A previous search targeting the group was conducted in Lanzarote in June 2022.
The Wreckage of a Micro Light Airoplane and the couple in their 60’s that were on board have been found. The Guardia Civil are working on the theory the Plane crashed and they both died on the spot.
The wreckage was found in the Sierra de Cazorla yesterday ..a search was laucnhed after the Couple took off from an airport in Murcia last Friday and dissapered around a hour later.
An alleged thief, dubbed the climber because of his ability to scale building façades, has been shot in the foot by police after he tried to stab an officer in Torremolinos.
The individual had managed to evade capture for several months until yesterday when the Local Police were made aware the suspect could be inside a house and rushed to the scene.
When officers arrived, the man tried to escape, but found all of the exits to the home blocked as police had surrounded the property.
According to police sources, the man then allegedly attacked the officer directly in front of him with a knife, at which point one of the other officers opened fire on him and shot him in the foot the man then decided to give himself up and was arrested. He was treated in Hospital for the wound to his foot.
A group of Lanzarote locals on Sunday launched their own pro-tourism march to cheers and applause from holidaymakers just hours after thousands had stormed beaches across the Canary Islands to protest against over-tourism.
The resort of Puerto del Carmen was picked as the centre stage for Lanzarote’s anti-tourism demonstration – one of several that unfolded across Islands earlier in the day.
But once the demonstrators had dissipated, dozens of other locals donned t-shirts that read ‘Lanzarote loves tourism’ and turned out for a march of their own, banging drums and hoisting their own signs.
A local restaurant owner said fears of mass tourism were being stoked by politicians ‘playing political games’ and pointed out that thousands of locals in Lanzarote rely on holidaymakers for their livelihoods.
That’s the latest from TRE, I’m Bob James.
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