Car Chase
FIVE police officers have been injured and a 23-year-old man arrested after he ploughed into a road block bringing a high-speed car chase to an end.
Police shot out the tyres when the driver failed to stop at the road block on the A-226 and smashed into officers – injuring five – near Teruel at 9am, yesterday.
The chase started 44 Km away before the incident came to an end with armed officers hauling the driver from the car which ended up in a ditch.
A young man, from Barcelona, was charged with resisting arrest and failing to stop when ordered to by police. He will also face drug charges once the type and quantity of substances has been determined by blood tests.
All the injured police officers were treated at the nearby Hospital.
Possible Recession
SPAIN’S manufacturing activity plummeted into negative territory for the first time in more than five years, sparking fears the economy could soon slip into recession.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index figures, show Spain’s production fell from a positive 52.4 in January to 49.9 in February. Readings above 50 indicates an economic expansion.
Meanwhile
New-car sales fell 8.8 percent in February, the market’s sixth consecutive monthly decline, according to industry association ANFAC.
Sales to private customers dropped 12 percent, while those to rental companies fell 19 percent. Registrations by companies bucked the trend with a 4.7 percent increase.
Diesel-car registrations suffered a 29 percent drop with a market share of 29.9 percent.
Murder
AN old age pensioner has handed himself in to police on the Costa del Sol and confessed to the murder of his room-mate in a hammer attack.
The 70-year-old man presented himself to National Police in Torremolinos where he claimed to have beaten a 77-year-old to death.
Police have remanded the OAP in custody while they investigate his claim.
Tuna Racket
The Guardia Civil have dismantled a contraband operation centring on prized bluefin tuna.
Seventy-nine people accused of making an annual profit of €25 million in black money have now been arrested in 12 provinces.
the Guardia Civil found the criminal network introduced an annual 1,250 tons of tuna into Spain plus another 2,500 tons on forged documentation.
Tuna caught by boats from Spain, France, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Libya among others who exceeded their quotas were provided with forged documents proving that it was fattened in Maltese fish farms.
Malta’s director general of Fisheries, was sacked earlier this month following an earlier investigation revealed she was taking money from the tuna-smuggling network.