Terror Threat.
Terrorist group Daesh or Islamic State have issued a video threatening future terror attacks on Spain, allegedly citing a return to Barcelona.
The video message, picked up by cyber-analysts, reportedly claims “cells are ready and the objectives are designed”.
The video has not yet been released to the public.
The Daesh video reportedly lasts six minutes and features two tweets from the former Interior Minister, Juan Ignacio Zoido, in which he proclaimed the dismantling of terrorist cells in Spain.
Daesh accuses Spain of “throwing flames” and increasing radicalism in the country.
Romanian Teenager
POLICE have freed a pregnant teenager who was sold by her parents to a Romanian family in Andalucia.
The 16-year-old’s parents sold her off for €8,000 in Huelva province so that she could be married to a Romanian man.
Four have been arrested including the victim’s father, mother and her two children.
The mother was imprisoned, while the father, who is also accused of sexual abuse, was held in Romania.
It is alleged that four kidnappers bundled the young woman into a car in Romania and took her against her will to Spain where she was married to the man.
She now been transferred to a centre for minors in Andalucia, where she is being cared for.
Drug Smuggling
Two British pensioners accused of trying to smuggle £2million worth of cocaine into Europe on a cruise liner were arrested on December 4 after Portuguese plain-clothes officers boarded the MS Marco Polo as it docked at Lisbon.
Susan and Roger Clarke .. both in their 70’s have criminal records in the UK it was reported ,, But now live in Guardamar del Segura.
Detectives discovered nine kilos of cocaine hidden inside four suitcases in their cabin.
Jail
A Cornish criminal who spent 14 years on the run has been hauled back and jailed after she received a knock at the door at her Spanish home.
Helen Hegarty who’s 56, absconded in 2004 shortly before she was due to be sentenced at Truro Crown Court for stealing nearly £20,000 from her employer.
Serial thief and fraudster Hegarty admitted the charge of obtaining money by deception at the time but was nowhere to be seen on the morning of her court hearing.
Devon and Cornwall Police were dispatched to Spain to bring her back and yesterday she was at the Truro Crown Court.
She was jailed for five months.
Appeal
A desperate appeal has been launched to find a ‘very vulnerable’ British man after he went missing in Madrid.
Nixon Smith has not been heard of since November 19 when he caught a flight from Malaga to the capital.
The 23-year-old – described as a free spirit by his family – failed to catch a planned connecting flight back to Birmingham hours later.
He is reported to have been robbed of his belongings during his holiday and had been issued with an emergency passport at the British Consulate in Malaga.
His brother, Jake, made an appeal on his Facebook page, asking anyone who has any information to contact him.