BROTHERS ARRESTED IN LOS ALCAZARES FOR PEOPLE SMUGGLING

Two brothers, aged 20 and 30 and both residents of France, have been arrested in Los Alcázares for smuggling 10 Algerians into Spain by boat. They were landed close to Cabo de Palos on the Murcian coast from a 7meter-long semi-rigid boat-

The operation began last month, after the Civil Guard became aware that two Algerian citizens, with French documentation, had rented a mooring point in a marina in the Marmenor municipality of Los Alcázares, which they paid for in cash. The agents learned that the moored boat had a 225-hp engine, one of those usually used in high-speed boats dedicated to drug trafficking or the illegal transport of people and goods.

In collaboration with the Los Alcázares Local Police, the Guardia Civil established discreet surveillance around the suspects and the boat learning how the individuals set sail at night, as they entered the sea towards North Africa.

The operation culminated with the location of 10 people, all undocumented and of Algerian nationality, on the beaches of Calblanque; and, minutes later, with the arrest of the two suspects upon arrival at the port.

That same morning, the Civil Guard located a similar vessel sailing towards

Orihuela Receives Spares To Repair 100 Msw Waste Containers

Work will begin to repair broken containers in the next few days the Murcian coast, which also turned out to be suspicious. Apparently, between 15 and 20 people were travelling on the boat who, were disembarked on a beach in the Cartagena municipality of Cabo de Palos.

Torrevieja Woman Given 5 Years For Matricide

The Provincial Court in Alicante has sentenced a Lithuanian woman of Russian origin to five years in prison, after she strangled her 78year-old mother with a rope while she was resting in a bed at her home in Torrevieja.

Originally facing a trial by jury in July in Elche, where the woman faced 26 years in prison, the prosecutor and defence reached an agreement of conformity and reduced the sentence to five years by modifying the accusation of murder to manslaughter and applying the incomplete defence of mental anomaly, the mitigation of late confession and the aggravating factor of kinship.

The facts declared proven in the sentence handed down by the presiding magistrate, Francisco Javier Saravia, occurred in June 2021 in Torrevieja.

The Curious Flight From Alicante To Murcia

A curious passenger at Alicante-Elche Airport embarked on a quest to find out why the departure screens at the Costa Blanca airport were showing a flight to Murcia, an airport just over 70 kilometres away.

Unable to find the answer at the airport, where staff just assumed it was a mistake, FlightRadar24 was the next port of call which shows that the flight does indeed exist, although it is not possible to board.

The flight, TB1187, covers a route between the Belgian city of Ostend and the Region of

Murcia, via Alicante, and as the operator, TUI, subsequently explained, it is a "triangle flight" that carries passengers between Alicante and Murcia and Belgium, but not between the two Spanish cities.

This flight takes place regularly on Wednesdays and Saturdays until November.

The Orihuela Council has received a new supply of spares parts for the containers and dustbins used across the municipality, with which it staff will be able to repair more than a hundred municipally owned side-load containers.

The cost of the spare parts amounts to 57,172.50 euros, with the same amount also included in the budget for the next financial year 2024. These spare parts are necessary to repair broken containers and bins as well as those that have been vandalised.

The Councilor for Street Cleaning and USW, Rocío Ortuño, has announced that in the next few days service workers will begin to repair the containers.