https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A former executive with Spain's main copyright organization has been sentenced to prison for spending €40,000 ($50,000) in brothels using a corporate credit card, with a judge describing as "nonsense" the man's claims that the visits were work-related. https://www.thelocal.es/20141112/executive-had-40000-euro-brothel-bill-on-visa-card-sgae-spain Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:20:00 +0100 executive-had-40000-euro-brothel-bill-on-visa-card-sgae-spain Thirteen people have been arrested for luring eleven Romanian women to Spain with the promise of a better life before forcing them to work as prostitutes. https://www.thelocal.es/20140812/spanish-police-smash-romanian-sex-slave-ring Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:28:00 +0200 spanish-police-smash-romanian-sex-slave-ring Six Barcelona women have been arrested and accused of spiking clients' drinks with so-called date rape drugs in order to steal over €20,000 ($27,100) using their credit cards – a technique known as the 'Dream Kiss'. https://www.thelocal.es/20140617/dream-kiss-prostitutes-drugged-and-robbed-clients Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:31:00 +0200 dream-kiss-prostitutes-drugged-and-robbed-clients More and more mixed groups of 16 to 24-year-old guys and girls in Spain's capital are swapping discos for brothels, a new study shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20130924/brothels-are-madrids-new-nightclubs-survey Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:00:00 +0200 brothels-are-madrids-new-nightclubs-survey A judge in the Catalonian town of Lleida (Lérida) has ordered the city's town hall to hand over a licence to a brothel just two streets away from where Catalonia's supreme court banned the building of a mosque a year ago. https://www.thelocal.es/20130307/judges-okay-brothels-after-mosque-veto Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:15:00 +0100 judges-okay-brothels-after-mosque-veto Spanish police have broken up a prostitution ring that operated six large brothels staffed with about 400 women and chalked up more than a million euros a year in earnings. https://www.thelocal.es/20130305/spanish-police-smash-huge-vice-ring Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:19:00 +0100 spanish-police-smash-huge-vice-ring