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December 3rd, 2010
Three hooded thieves stole a vehicle containing 28 pieces of art including works by Picasso, Colombian artist Fernando Botero and Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida, Spanish police have confirmed. A police statement said a lorry was taken from a warehouse near the town of Getafe on Madrid's southern outskirts last Saturday. Police ...
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November 25th, 2010
Spanish police detained a Pakistani man accused of stabbing a man to death in Indonesia and then chopping his body into pieces, the interior ministry said today. Police arrested the 32-year-old father of two as he was about to enter a metro station in central Madrid, it said in a statement.
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November 5th, 2010
A killer who escaped from custody after strangling his girlfriend 16 years ago and raped two women while on the run in Spain has been jailed for life. Miguel da Silva, who was caught after a cold case review, will serve at least 16 years behind bars for murdering
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October 26th, 2010
Fifteen Spanish policemen have gone on trial in Spain's northern Basque region charged with torturing two ETA separatists while they were in custody. The newspaper El Pais said that the accused denied the charges at the start of trial,
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September 29th, 2010
A 49-year-old man, who has not been named, is thought to be behind 15 hold-ups in the provinces of Malaga and Alicante, accompanied by a 31-year-old Russian woman. Spanish police believe the pair could have stolen about 115,000 euros in the raids. They are suspected of working together to carry ...
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September 20th, 2010
Spain has complained to Britain after police from its territory Gibraltar entered Spain illegally to raid a house, Spanish and Gibraltar authorities said today. Gibraltar has apologised to Spain for the actions of the two policemen, who made a search over the border
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September 14th, 2010
Two infamous Colombian hitmen wanted for the cold-blooded murder of at least 200 people were arrested by armed police in Spain today. Sharpshooter cops swooped on danger men Henry Marin, alias "The Chicken", and Mauricio Sepulveda, known as "Husky", in separate hideouts at
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September 14th, 2010
Spanish police have arrested nine people with suspected links to the Basque group 'Ekin' today, the Interior Ministry has announced - the first arrests made since the weakened Basque rebel group ETA publicly called a halt to armed attacks. Ekin is suspected of having political links with ETA
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September 2nd, 2010
Investigators in Spain have arrested a suspect from Russia in connection with a fire that killed 156 people in a nightclub in Russia in 2009, the Spanish National Police said today. Authorities in Spain arrested Konstantin Mrykhin, who was the
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July 28th, 2010
A 41-year-old Irishman was shot dead in Benalmadena Wednesday morning. Police are now reporting that the man was on holiday with his family, and that the shooting was not gang-related. John O’Neill, a father-of-two from Coolock in Dublin, was
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