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 Peruvian police have rescued 19-year-old Patricia Aguilar, missing for more than a year and a half, from the hands of a doomsday sect in a remote jungle area. https://www.thelocal.es/20180706/19-year-old-spaniard-rescued-from-doomsday-sect-in-peru-jungle-patricia-aguilar Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:30:01 +0200 19-year-old-spaniard-rescued-from-doomsday-sect-in-peru-jungle-patricia-aguilar In May 2007, Madeleine McCann, a 4 year-old British girl on holiday with her parents in the Algarve, disappeared from her hotel room. She was never found, but a Galician man claims to have saved his own daughter from Scotland Yard's chief suspect in the ongoing case. https://www.thelocal.es/20180426/spanish-man-says-he-saved-his-daughter-from-madeleine-mccanns-alleged-kidnapper Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:22:03 +0200 spanish-man-says-he-saved-his-daughter-from-madeleine-mccanns-alleged-kidnapper Spanish police officers have detained a 48-year-old man in León for allegedly staging his own kidnapping in order to extort his family in Argentina. https://www.thelocal.es/20171023/police-arrest-man-in-spain-for-faking-his-own-kidnapping-and-extorting-his-family Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:14:43 +0200 police-arrest-man-in-spain-for-faking-his-own-kidnapping-and-extorting-his-family The Colombian rebel group ELN freed a prominent Spanish-Colombian journalist and two local TV reporters Friday after holding them for nearly a week. https://www.thelocal.es/20160528/colombia-rebels-free-spanish-journalist Sat, 28 May 2016 17:44:21 +0200 colombia-rebels-free-spanish-journalist Spanish police said Saturday they had freed two Moroccan migrants who were kidnapped as soon as they entered Spain illegally by ferry and who were being beaten and held for ransom. https://www.thelocal.es/20151024/spanish-police-free-moroccan-migrants-held-for-ransom Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:37:01 +0200 spanish-police-free-moroccan-migrants-held-for-ransom A young woman in Sevilla has been arrested for pretending that she had been kidnapped and forced into prostitution in order to get money from her mother to pay off her debts. https://www.thelocal.es/20151022/police-arrest-woman-for-faking-own-kidnapping-to-get-money-from-mother Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:50:53 +0200 police-arrest-woman-for-faking-own-kidnapping-to-get-money-from-mother Police in Spain said on Tuesday they freed a young Spaniard kidnapped and held for a ransom of €35,000 ($39,000) for six days in southern Spain, and arrested ten French nationals. https://www.thelocal.es/20150901/spain-police-free-kidnapped-man-detain-10-french-nationals Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:36:36 +0200 spain-police-free-kidnapped-man-detain-10-french-nationals In what appears to be a case of mistaken identity, a local policeman in Spain's Catalonia region was abducted and beaten up before being dumped in a forest. https://www.thelocal.es/20141215/kidnap-mix-up-man-abandoned-in-woods-spain-catalonia Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:01:00 +0100 kidnap-mix-up-man-abandoned-in-woods-spain-catalonia A Barcelona woman has been arrested after allegedly faking her own kidnapping in the Dominican Republic to raise money to record a CD. https://www.thelocal.es/20140821/man-fakes-own-kidnapping-to-stage-musical Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:08:00 +0200 man-fakes-own-kidnapping-to-stage-musical Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville have arrested three men who not only mistook a woman for the person they were meant to kidnap; they then decided to abduct and rob her anyway. https://www.thelocal.es/20140801/clumsy-kidnappers-seville-abduct-wrong-victim Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:35:33 +0200 clumsy-kidnappers-seville-abduct-wrong-victim Bolivian and Spanish police have rescued a three-month-old baby and his 11-year-old brother from a group of drug traffickers who held them in a bid to extort money from their mother. https://www.thelocal.es/20140327/two-spanish-children-kidnapped-by-bolivian-drug-lords Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:32:00 +0100 two-spanish-children-kidnapped-by-bolivian-drug-lords New details of the case involving the kidnapping of a nine-year-old Barcelona girl rescued seven months later in the Amazon rainforest are emerging. https://www.thelocal.es/20140313/amazon-kidnapper-raped-his-two-sisters-reports Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:57:00 +0100 amazon-kidnapper-raped-his-two-sisters-reports When a mother on the Spanish island of Majorca told police her baby had been kidnapped by her crazy ex, officers rushed to the scene with rifles, bullet-proof vests, and riot shields. But what they found caught them completely off guard. https://www.thelocal.es/20131016/mother-jailed-over-fake-kidnapping-claims Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:09:00 +0200 mother-jailed-over-fake-kidnapping-claims