Shooting
A MAN has died after he was shot inside his Bentley in Marbella.
The 49-year-old was gunned down at 4am yesterday as he was approaching his home in San Pedro de Alcantara.
He’s been identified as Marco Yaqout a Spaniard, of Moroccan origin who owned several bars and nightclubs in Puerto Banus.
He was shot at more than 20 times
The gunman attacked as Marco was entering his garage in what investigators have described as another ‘settling of accounts’.
Drug Bust
The National police announced yesterday it had dismantled a large cocaine processing laboratory and arrested a number of alleged drug-trafficking gang members in Valencia, hours after busting another important drug operation in northwestern Galicia.
A joint police operation undertaken by Portuguese, Colombian and Spanish security forces dismantled one of Europe’s largest clandestine cocaine re-processing laboratories in a chalet in El Puig and arrested 11 gang-members of Spanish, Colombian and Albanian nationality in an operation spanning Madrid, Malaga, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, and Pontevedra.
Taxi Strike
Taxi drivers in the capital began an indefinite strike yesterday in an ongoing feud with local government over what unions see as overly lenient regulations applied to private ride-hailing apps like Uber.
Taxi unions called for the industrial action in Madrid as a show of solidarity with colleagues in Barcelona, who went on indefinite strike on Friday.
Four police officers were injured yesterday in scuffles that broke out with a group of protesting taxi drivers who allegedly tried to force their way into the grounds of the regional parliament in Barcelona .
Brexit
The European Parliament’s chief Brexit official has welcomed British Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to scrap the 65 pound fee that the EU citizens living in Britain would have to pay to get settled status after Brexit.
Guy Verhofstadt, the head of the EU Parliament Brexit steering group, said it had been a “key demand” all along.
He said he hoped the announcement yesterday would now set off “cross-party cooperation.” He expressed hope “consultations will really start now, leading to the closest possible EU-U.K. future relationship.”