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The man threw his son's chopped up body into the local river.Villanueva del Río y Minas - Archive Photo A Sevilla man, believed to be in his 70’s, fed up with being mistreated by his 28 year old drug addict son, has today, Monday, killed him, chopped up the body and thrown it into the Huéznar river in Villanueva del Río y Minas, Sevilla. The father had denounced his son on several occasions for aggression over recent years. Several local residents,...
man has been arrested in Ceuta after police found 690 kilos of hashish in the back of his van, which he says he borrowed.Hashish from an earlier haul in Ceuta An ex-councillor in Cueta, Miguel Angel A. has been stopped in his van when crossing to Algeciras on the ferry. ‘What?, 690 kilos of hashish in the back of my ‘fergo’? How did that get there? The ex councillor for the future and progress said he had no idea how the drugs got into van,...
Eduardo Torres-Dulce, Spain’s attorney general, said yesterday(WED) he had ordered the country’s anti-corruption unit to investigate whether there were grounds to take “penal” action against the management of the bank. The investigation comes as public anger over the running of Bankia grows as the revelation of the scale of problems at the lender has seen shareholders lose almost all their money. Bankia was created through the merger of seven smaller...
