Murder Confession
According to Spanish media sources, Bernardo Montoya Navarro has confessed to the murder of 26 year old Laura Luelmo this morning.
Mr. Montoya has allegedly claimed that the teacher had asked him where she could find a local supermarket and he gave her a false address to lure her out into the open.
Montoya who recently was released from prison just a few months ago, reportedly stated that he wanted to start a new life in Cataluña where he had previously worked.
According to an autopsy report that was released late yesterday evening Ms. Luelmo’s official cause of death was trauma to the head from a blunt object like a rock or stick.
Politicians have expressed their condolences to the friends and family of Laura Luelmo and have been debating whether a permanent revisable prison sentence should be applied for this case.
Bernardo Montoya will now be passed to the judge of Valverde de Camino for trial, the court case will be held under the secrecy of the investigation.
Arrests
THE National Police have arrested five people in Murcia.
A woman was held captive for five months after being sold to the group by her family for 2,000 euros with the intentions of her being forced into marriage.
According to the National Police, the arrested individuals are Bulgarians.
The unnamed woman was held in Alquerias, where she was forced to endure sexual relations with her captors.
After Five months of being held by the Bulgarian gang, she managed to escape to Alicante on a train where she sought help from the National Police.
Migration
police have smashed an alleged people trafficking network which “operated like a travel agency” and smuggled Moroccans into Spain by sea.
The ring recruited its “customers” in northern Morocco charging “at least” 2,500 euros per person for the crossing.
“The organisation operated like a sort of travel agency” which took the migrants to Spain, picked them up from the coast and then transported them by car to “safe houses .. a police statement said
Police arrested seven suspected leaders of the ring, including its Moroccan-based chief, who was charged with recruiting migrants as part of the operation.
The network smuggled around 600 migrants into Spain this year, earning at least 1.5 million euros, the statement said.
Equality
SPAIN is among the worst in the world in terms of pay equality between men and women, despite being a ‘model country’ in terms of political empowerment and access to health and education.
This is the findings of the annual report on the gender gap of the World Economic Forum.
According to the Forum’s director ‘what is pulling Spain back is salary parity for similar work’, with the country ranked 129th out of 149 countries – 20 places from the bottom.
In contrast, Spain has reportedly advanced dramatically in gender equality when it comes to accessing education and health, ranking first in gender consistency for enrollment from primary to university education.
The report reveals there are, in fact, more women than men entering universities, but on the flip side 10 per cent less females go on to enter the workplace.