Sex gang offered buy 10 get 1 free loyalty card

PROSTITUTION ‘pimping’ gang which offered sex loyalty cards to customers was dismantled in Barcelona, police said. With the card, regular customers would get free sex after paying for ten ‘sexual encounters’. Twelve alleged members of the gang have been arrested.

When the women arrived in Spain, their documentation was taken by the gang who then forced them to work as prostitutes, handing the takings over to them.

The network provided a 24 hour service where Chinese women were forced to have sex with customers at five apartments in several neighbourhoods of the city.

The highly organised gang advertised its services on the internet and in the local press.

Meanwhile, 15 Romanians were arrested by La Linea National Police for allegedly forcing women into prostitution in Campo de Gibraltar (Cadiz). It is thought they also operated in Malaga Province and northern Spain.

 

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man has been arrested by the National Police in Torremolinos in connection with the stabbing of another man on May 17th

It is understood from the reports a 32 year old British man was discovered by a passer by at a bus stop with a deep stab wound

It is reported that a 48 year old British man, named with the initials P.D who works at a local bar where the victim drank was arrested within 10 hours of the attack

According to the reports it is understood that the man allegedly stabbed the other man after accusing him of having an affair with his wife

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32 year old Spanish man was admitted to the Carlos Haya Hospital after receiving two gunshots to the hand and right shoulder.

It is understood that the man was shot outside his home in an apartment block in the of Trinidad neighborhood of the city by two men who hid their faces with motorcycle helmets.

It is reported the two men knocked on the victims door and shot the man without warning as he opened it

The two men then fled the scene

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Civil Guard seizes 250 kilos of hashish at the Ceuta port after inspection of 4 vehicles

- A Catalan, two Moroccans living in France and two young Belgians, to court accused of separate crimes against public health

- The estimated market value of the narcotic which had intervened touched the 400,000 euros

 

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Clashes over jail conditions shake Moroccan prison

Clashes between security forces and prisoners from the radical Salafist branch of Islam on Tuesday rocked a jail in Sale, close to the Moroccan capital Rabat, officials said.
"The situation was brought under control at the end of the morning. One policeman was wounded and taken to hospital. His life is not in danger. About 34 Salafists surrendered at the end of the morning," a security official told AFP.
Security forces intervened on Monday afternoon to break up a rally by Salafist prisoners who sought to protest about their conditions of detention and clashes broke out. The fighting went on overnight, but authorities said Tuesday that the situation "seems to have calmed down".
"Tear gas grenades and rubber bullets were used this morning by police forces who confronted the detainees inside the prison and even on the roof," a witness said.
"There is a climate of total anarchy in this prison, which houses more than 200 Salafist detainees," according to Abderrahim Mouhtad, the head of the Annassir association, which defends Salafist prisoners' rights.
"Clearly the prison administration intends to take back control of the situation and adopt firmer tactics than before," Mouhtad told AFP.
"These detainees sequestered prison warders yesterday and today. They took on the security forces with stones and the clashes were unusually violent," said a senior official in the ministry of the interior.
According to a family member of one prisoner, "the prison authorities wanted to lay their hands on a detainee suspected of having recently broadcast a video on YouTube in which you see the Salafist prisoners protest, inside the prison, about their detention conditions."
Citing eyewitnesses, the MAP official news agency said on Monday that the security forces "intervened to establish order", and added that "eight members of the security forces and prison warders were slightly wounded during the course of this intervention".

 

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Spanish court has sentenced two Somali pirates to 439 years in jail each for their role in the hijacking of a tuna fishing boat.

 Spanish court has sentenced two Somali pirates to 439 years in jail each for their role in the hijacking of a tuna fishing boat.

The two men have been detained in a Madrid jail since they were caught after the attack in late 2009.

The court said government-linked bodies had paid to have the vessel freed, but the government has insisted it does not pay ransoms.

The vessel and 36 crew members were held off Somalia for 47 days.

The Somalis were found guilty of 36 counts of illegal detention and robbery with violence, but absolved of charges of terrorism, membership in an organised crime group and torture.

Maximum sentence

The National Court identified them as Cabdiweli Cabdullahi and Raageggesey Hassan Aji, according to the Associated Press.

Under Spanish law, they will serve only a maximum of 30 years in jail, regardless of the sentence.

They were also ordered to pay 100,000 euros to each person detained.

During the trial, the suspects said they had been fishing and were themselves seized by the pirates who later hijacked the vessel.

The court said "public organisations linked to the Spanish government" had paid for the release of the crew.

Spain's Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said the government did not pay ransoms.

Piracy is a highly lucrative trade in Somalia, where gangs can often demand millions of dollars in ransoms.

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