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Patricia Ortega Dolz

CRIME IN SPAIN

The Spanish Christmas gathering that brought down Belgium’s most-wanted drug lord

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 14-01-2021 - 10:37 UTC

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

ORGANIZED CRIME

Spanish police bust Russian mafia network operating on Mediterranean coast

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 23-12-2020 - 12:07 UTC

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

IMMIGRATION

Spanish government transfers migrants out of Canary Islands ‘port of shame’

María Martín/Patricia Ortega Dolz/El País|Arguineguín (Gran Canaria) / Madrid | 30-11-2020 - 10:15 UTC

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

ISLAMIC TERRORISM

The young Spanish woman who went from ‘fallera’ to jihadist

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 16-11-2020 - 17:27 UTC

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

CRIME IN SPAIN

The Balkan mafias wielding their power in Spain

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 03-09-2020 - 08:43 UTC

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

CRIME

Former soldier arrested for shooting at photos of Spanish PM and ministers in a firing range

Patricia Ortega Dolz/Nacho Sánchez|Málaga | 19-06-2020 - 13:48 UTC

In the video of the incident, a gunman is seen firing at the images of several high-profile politicians, including Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias

POLITICS

Opposition calls for minister to quit over leaked memo about Civil Guard colonel’s sacking

Patricia Ortega Dolz/J. J. Gálvez|Madrid | 02-06-2020 - 15:44 UTC

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

CORONAVIRUS

Civil Guard dismissal sparks political row in Spain

El País/Pablo Linde/Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 27-05-2020 - 09:55 UTC

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

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish Civil Guard official sacked over Covid-19 report

J. J. Gálvez/Óscar López-Fonseca/Patricia Ortega Dolz/El País|Madrid | 26-05-2020 - 09:56 UTC

Interior Ministry denies the move is connected with a court investigation into the government's authorization of mass gatherings just days ahead of the coronavirus lockdown

CORONAVIRUS

Notorious Franco-era cop ‘Billy the Kid’ dies from coronavirus

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 07-05-2020 - 14:49 UTC

Antonio González Pacheco, a police officer accused of torturing hundreds of victims under the Spanish dictatorship, passed away at the age of 73

CORONAVIRUS

Spain insists ‘no serious breaches’ committed on first day of children outings

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 27-04-2020 - 08:27 UTC

Photos of large groups of people and youngsters playing soccer went viral on Sunday, raising concern that families were breaking the relaxed confinement measures

CORONAVIRUS

Getting around Spain’s lockdown rules: the motorcyclist who traveled 21km to buy bread

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 31-03-2020 - 14:03 UTC

Civil Guard officers have heard all sort of excuses from people for breaking the coronavirus confinement, and have fined 3,695 drivers for traveling to their second homes

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish authorities arrest 926 people for breaking rules of lockdown

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 25-03-2020 - 07:14 UTC

Interior minister says most residents are observing the conditions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but points out that a four-month sentence has already been handed down to one offender

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish airports and ports also closed in bid to slow spread of coronavirus

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 23-03-2020 - 11:20 UTC

As at land borders, only residents will be able to enter the country by air or sea, with exceptions for certain professions or for reasons of force majeure

DRUGS

Spain’s invisible multi-million-euro marijuana business

Patricia Ortega Dolz/Javier Arroyo|Madrid / Granada | 12-02-2020 - 07:31 UTC

Criminal groups are paying as much as €5,000 per harvest to low-income families who agree to grow the drug in their homes

Americas

Spanish minister’s secret meeting with Venezuelan vice-president sparks political storm

Patricia Ortega Dolz/Bernardo de Miguel|Madrid | 27-01-2020 - 10:03 UTC

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez claims that José Luis Ábalos “did what he could to avoid a diplomatic crisis” given that Delcy Rodríguez is banned from entering the European Union

AMERICAS

Police sources: Minister met Venezuelan vice-president to avoid her entry into Spain

El País/Carlos E. Cué/Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 24-01-2020 - 10:55 UTC

Media reports claim that transportation chief José Luis Ábalos had secret talks with Delcy Rodríguez inside a private aircraft in Madrid’s Barajas airport in the early hours of Monday

DRUG SMUGGLING

Spanish police arrest captain of the ‘narco-submarine’

EFE/Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 02-12-2019 - 15:55 UTC

Authorities had been looking for the man since last week, when they intercepted the submersible with three tons of cocaine on board

Drug trade

Spanish police take stock of ‘narco-submarine’ contents: over three tons of cocaine

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 28-11-2019 - 14:51 UTC

New details emerge about “historic operation” that seized a drug shipment with a market value of €100 million

Drug trade

Coke float: Spain’s Civil Guard salvages the ‘narco-submarine’

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 27-11-2019 - 08:58 UTC

Two crew members were arrested when the vessel, which is thought to be carrying 3,000 kilos of cocaine, was left to sink near the Galician coast last Sunday

Drug trade

Is the Spanish coast littered with single-use ‘narco-submarines’?

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 26-11-2019 - 15:41 UTC

After the first drug-laden submersible ever caught in European waters was seized on Sunday, police are wondering whether there are more such vessels at the bottom of the sea

DRUG TRADE

Europe’s first ‘narco-submarine’ caught off Spain with 3,000 kilos of cocaine

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 25-11-2019 - 12:59 UTC

Two crew members were arrested and a third got away during the joint operation on Sunday in the northwestern Galicia region

November 10 General Election

Thousands of police officers deployed in Catalonia ahead of general election

Patricia Ortega Dolz/Rebeca Carranco|Madrid / Barcelona | 06-11-2019 - 11:33 UTC

Following recent street disturbances by radical independence activists, the authorities are sending reinforcements to guarantee security at polling stations on Sunday

Islamic State

Prosecutors harden position on bringing Spanish ISIS women home

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 29-10-2019 - 09:53 UTC

The High Court is concerned that the jihadists could indoctrinate young people once they are repatriated from Syria

Crime

‘Head in a box’ crime: Cleaning lady may have unwittingly disposed of body

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Castro Urdiales | 07-10-2019 - 08:13 UTC

According to sources from the investigation into the apparent murder of 67-year-old Jesús Mari Baranda, the domestic employee was asked to throw away a number of large trash bags

CRIME

Woman in custody after giving neighbor box containing her partner’s severed head

EFE/Patricia Ortega Dolz/Agencies|Castro Urdiales / Madrid | 03-10-2019 - 13:59 UTC

The homicide suspect, María del Carmen M.G., had claimed the package was full of sex toys, but in fact it contained the decomposing body part of victim Jesús María B. R.

Gabriel Cruz Murder Case

Trial for murder of eight-year-old Gabriel Cruz begins in Almería

Patricia Ortega Dolz|Madrid | 09-09-2019 - 10:43 UTC

Seven women and two men will decide the fate of Ana Julia Quezada, the self-confessed killer of the child, who was the son of her boyfriend at the time of his death in 2018

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