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Spanish airline Iberia says a man stripped naked on a flight bound for Germany carrying 110 passengers, causing the pilot to turn back to Madrid airport minutes after takeoff.“The flight took off around 7:45 p.m. Thursday and not long after a man took all his clothes off, became disruptive and then locked himself in a toilet,” Iberia spokesman Santiago de Juan said Saturday.He declined to give the passenger’s nationality but said the incident caused...
Hacker turned provocateur Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeak’s secret has come out. He may have hundreds of hackers who align themselves with the open-government website, according to information in the wake of three hacker arrests in Spain.Yet for all the United States official chagrin, it has taken a page out of the Assange notebook. The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems...
135 kilos of cocaine and 490,000 € in cash was recovered with dozens of mobile phones.The police say that the group was acting between Madrid and Valencia on an international scale, and the group introduced, transported, stored and distributed the drugs across borders. A simultaneous search has been held in 14 homes in Madrid and Valencia.The break for the police came in Parla, Madrid last December when a warehouse carrying 500 kilos of cocaine was...
The Spanish cabinet on Friday approved the draft legislation to control the multi-ownership or timeshare industry in Spain.The legislation adapts the Spanish regulations to European norms, and takes into account new holiday packages with the intention of better protecting the consumer.It affects the contracts for tourism assets, the acquisition of long-term holiday products, and the resale and exchange of timeshare and other variants.The new legislation...
Following the news of the arrest of what are thought to be three of the top people in Spain from the ‘Anonymous’ hacking group, a series of cyber attacks have been launched against Spanish institutions this weekend.A denial of service DDOS attack was launched against the National Police site, and comments on Twitter claimed that there was no formal structure of leaders of ‘Anonymous’ and that the attacks were not organised by a single person.The...
.A total of 15 men – all Romanians – were arrested for allegedly forcing young women to work in brothels.In a series of raids – dubbed ‘Operation Damas’ – officers interviewed dozens of women apparently abused in this way.Most of the young women had been enticed to Spain from Romania with the promise of well paid jobs.However when they arrived in Spain they were quickly coerced into selling sex in a series of brothels and even on the streets.Police...
Spanish political party has gone as far as accusing the chief minister Peter Caruana of being 'an environmental terrorist,' which goes to show to what extent there are those on the other side prepared to attack Gibraltar's leaders.In this case, it is the 'Partido Andalucista' which has made the accusation, because in their view Caruana goes about behaving in the 'Bay of Algeciras' without adhering to EU directives in matters of bunkering, of shipping...
