Patricia Ortega Dolz

In 2023, 100,000 kilos of cocaine were seized in Spain. According to police sources, this was more than double what was confiscated the previous year. The reasons for the drug avalanche are on the other side of the Atlantic

Maxim Kuzminov escaped with his combat helicopter in August, in a daring move that was used as propaganda by Kyiv. Russia’s spy chief says the ‘traitor,’ who was shot and run over with his own car, was a ‘moral corpse’

Many youths, who previously used sporting events to vent their anger, are using recent protests against the Socialist government of Pedro Sánchez to regain lost visibility, according to the police

Electric fans and water bottles were ubiquitous on a day that yielded quite a few anecdotes, including voting newlyweds and a village that voted in 26 seconds

Catalina Delgado’s daughter was placed in a juvenile detention center when police discovered that she had been left alone while her mother went to work. She now faces a child abandonment case and a possible sentence of three years in jail

The assailant has been arrested, and authorities are investigating the case as a possible act of Islamic terrorism

Officials from the National Crime Agency and the charity CrimeStoppers joined Spanish authorities in Madrid to ask for the cooperation of the British community

Judges handed down prison sentences against the perpetrators of murders that shocked the nation, such as the killing of the schoolteacher Laura Luelmo

The 20-year-old claimed he was assaulted by a group of eight hooded men in the entrance to his apartment building. He now says he lied to hide the truth from his partner

Captain Javier Escorihuela recounts the harrowing scenes at Kabul airport and the difficulties involved in getting people out safely

A woman was stabbed while waiting in line for food on Wednesday, just days after a Moroccan man was shot dead by a former soldier

A special unit of the Civil Guard has been plucking people out of the waters near Ceuta, where thousands of desperate immigrants breached the border between Morocco and the exclave city earlier this week

The threatening missive to Reyes Maroto arrived just a few days after politicians Pablo Iglesias and Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Civil Guard chief María Gámez were sent packages containing bullets

“Your time is running out”, reads the message for Pablo Iglesias of Unidas Podemos. Interior Ministry chief Fernando Grande-Marlaska and the head of the Civil Guard were sent similar packages

According to police, drug-trafficking networks are being used to send migrants from the Canary Islands to the mainland

According to investigators, Carmen Mireya Alarcón Rivera used the country as a “refuge” as she developed her businesses in Ecuador

The boat, initially mistaken for a carnival float, was discovered in a town in Málaga and was designed to transport 2,000 kilos of cocaine

The staggering rise in marijuana production and trafficking is the hallmark of a new era of organized crime in the country, where anonymity is key as gangs go global and diversify. From Galicia to Cádiz, EL PAÍS looks at the hotspots for the drug trade across the territory

The Civil Guard tracked down Yannick M. W. after he fled to the Costa del Sol, where he lived a life of luxury for a year

More than 20 suspects, including city councilors and Civil Guard officers, were arrested in Alicante province and Ibiza for their involvement with Alexei Sirokov

The makeshift facilities in Arguineguín are empty for the first time since August, but smugglers continue to send people on dangerous sea voyages to the archipelago

Cristina B., whose social media pictures show her at Valencia’s Las Fallas festival or at sports competitions, was arrested last week for belonging to a terrorist organization after she tried to cross into the conflict zone in Syria to join ISIS forces, according to police sources

Members of around 100 criminal groups from Eastern Europe are living in the country, locked in a battle over control of the drug trade

In a video, a man is seen discharging a shotgun at images of several high-profile politicians, including Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias

The confidential document contradicts Interior chief Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s version of events about the dismissal last week of Diego Pérez de los Cobos

Deputy PM asks opposition whether it is encouraging insubordination by the law enforcement agency, and PP spokeswoman calls him “the son of a terrorist”