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The 17-year-old Dutch Charly T., who has been in custody for seven months in a Spanish cell near Alicante on suspicion of sexual abuse of two British girls, is temporarily released...

In fact, in August he would have started a business management course in The Hague: the 17-year-old Charly T. from North Holland. But now he has been in a...

The Spanish police have rolled up a large drug gang in the province of Alicante, consisting of five Dutch people and a Moroccan. They are accused of drug trafficking, possession of weapons, growing marijuana, and being part of a criminal organization. In addition, they taped electricity on a large scale in an illegal manner.

The man who presumably was behind a gigantic series of digital bank robberies has been arrested in Alicante, Spain. The gang of the man attacked banks in more than forty countries with malicious software (malware). According to the European Police Office Europol, the damage amounts to more than one billion euros.

The Spanish police arrested 40 people in a major campaign against the spread of child pornography. The police reported Saturday that they are suspected of exchanging 'very disturbing material.'

A mafioso who had been fleeing since 1993, has been arrested by the Spanish and Italian police in Alicante. This Fausto Pellegrinetti lived under a false name in the Spanish city. Two years of investigation preceded his arrest last Sunday, the police reported Monday.

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TUI travel organization is working closely with price fighter easyJet. The number of holiday destinations in Europe will be expanded in the coming winter. 'A summer test with five city trips has been completed,' said TUI.

In spite of special computer systems and trained staff that have to deal with fraud, it is easy to place fake reviews on comparison sites on Zoover and Tripadvisor. That is what the television program Kassa (BNNVARA) reports on Saturday based on own research.

The Spanish police seized the head of a moeflon on Sunday at Alicante Airport. A Dutch hunter thought to take the dead sheep away with him in his suitcase.

A 25-year-old Dutchman has been arrested because he is suspected of having a cyclist killed on a Spanish road under the influence of drugs. Then he would have fled. That informs the Spanish authorities.

Three Germans were killed in a plane accident last weekend in southern Spain. The accident happened Saturday in a nature park 50 kilometers east of Malaga. A police spokesman confirmed the nationality of the victims on Monday.

The Belgian customs recently found 170 kilos of cocaine in a container with frozen vegetables. 150 packages of drugs were hidden in backpacks.

A septuagenarian Briton suspected of child abuse and last year was arrested after tips from the Dutch police in Spain in several countries, has received Wednesday in London life. The judge sentenced Mark Frost because of 45 cases of sexual abuse of young boys, reported the British news agency Press Association.

Hundreds of people in eastern Spain by extreme winter weather with their vehicles stuck in snow and ice. Spanish media reported that just forced into the Community of Valencia 1600 cars were stopping on roads made impassable by snow. Some were from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning in the snow.

The storm on Spain's east coast has claimed a third victim. The forty-year man died in Los Alcázares in Murcia, one of the hardest hit areas Monday.

Eastern Spain has been hit by severe storms and flooding. Which has sat at an elderly man killed. He was in La Cala de Finestrat swept away by the sudden mass of water. His body was recovered about half an hour after the accident.

A group of 41 troublemakers is Saturday afternoon at the airport Zaventem put off a plane from Brussels Airlines to Alicante because they misbehaved, Flemish broadcaster VRT reported.

The Spanish police in the seaside resort of Alicante released two teenagers who for years were held by their mother totally isolated from the outside world. The 49-year-old Swiss has been with her 30-year-old Swiss partner also arrested.

Spanish police are investigating how human bones bound together into sheets, ended up on the sea bed at Alicante. The presumption is that those recently used in magic and religious rituals. The residues are likely to be of at least three different persons. DNA testing should provide more clarity on this, reported Monday the British newspaper The Guardian.

Spanish police have near Alicante dismantled a transport company, whose main income was from smuggling Moroccan cannabis and hash. The legal transport was a cover for a very professional set up drug trafficking, Spanish media report Friday. The transport company brought large amounts of marijuana in trucks from Morocco to southern Spain and from Spain to the Netherlands and England.

Five people in the northern Spanish Pamplona arrested on suspicion of raping a young woman during the massive celebrations of San Fermín, known for its bull run.

Spanish police on Sunday arrested seven people suspected of supporting 'Islamist militant groups' fighting in Iraq and Syria. Under the guise of humanitarian aid they sent money and containers full of weapons, raw materials for bombs and computers to the battlefield, put the Interior Ministry in Madrid.