Spanish Police and US Secret Service close down mass credit card fraud
Police in Spain working with the US Secret Service have closed down a criminal network that had the potential to defraud more than 12 million...
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Four dead and eight injured after explosion destroys building in Madrid
Four people have died and eight have been left injured following a large explosion in Madrid on Wednesday. The blast occurred just before 3pm, destroying four floors...
61 arrests in drug trafficking raid in Barcelona
Nearly a thousand officers from the Catalan police (the Mossos d’Esquadra), the Spanish National Police and Barcelona’s local police, the Guàrdia Urbana, took part in...
Coronavirus in Spain full update (16 March)
As the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continued to spread across the globe on Monday, Spain experienced its first working day in the ‘state of alarm’ lockdown, imposed...
Trial of former Catalan police chief, Josep Lluís Trapero, starts
The trial of Josep Lluís Trapero, former head of the Catalan police (the Mossos d’Esquadra) starts at Spain’s National Court in Madrid on Monday. Trapero is...
Two arrests so far as details of ‘narco-sub’ in Galicia emerge
Further details have emerged of the ‘narco-sub’ intercepted by police off the northwestern region of Galicia in Spain – and reportedly carrying around 3,500kg of cocaine worth...
Police start to clear AP-7, as protestors call to block Basque border route
Early on Tuesday morning, French police used pepper spray to start removing protestors who had been blocking the AP-7 motorway at the French border, after the...
Catalan president denies any link to activists held on terrorism charges
Catalan president Quim Torra has denied ‘any link’ with detained activists held on terrorism charges and who have implicated him in testimonies regarding a plan...
Felipe VI visit to Barcelona sparks major protests
A visit from Spanish King Felipe VI to Barcelona on Monday for an awards ceremony has sparked major protests, and which began noisily on Sunday...
‘Without journalism, there is no democracy’ protest in Barcelona
At least 65 journalists have been injured whilst covering protests against the verdict and sentence of the Catalan Trial so far, with statistics showing that roughly...
