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 You will need to make a 'Denuncia' to the police if you have been a victim of a crime in Spain. Find out all the steps you need to take and what information to bring with you. https://www.thelocal.es/20241218/denunciar-how-to-file-a-police-report-in-spain Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:59:00 +0100 denunciar-how-to-file-a-police-report-in-spain Spain's Supreme Court has upheld a fine of €1,080 imposed on a man who turned up at a police station naked and refused repeated requests to dress. https://www.thelocal.es/20241012/spanish-court-upholds-fine-for-nude-police-station-visitor Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:54:43 +0200 spanish-court-upholds-fine-for-nude-police-station-visitor Spain’s controversial ‘gag law’ is closer than ever to being reformed, with planned changes to the toughest parts of the legislation, from smaller fines for smoking cannabis to rubber bullets no longer being used by riot police. https://www.thelocal.es/20241004/weed-insults-and-rubber-bullets-the-changes-to-spains-divisive-gag-law Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:54:06 +0200 weed-insults-and-rubber-bullets-the-changes-to-spains-divisive-gag-law Extra security checks will be conducted at various Christian events and venues over the festive period. https://www.thelocal.es/20231224/german-and-austrian-police-alert-to-christmas-terror-threat Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:49:00 +0100 german-and-austrian-police-alert-to-christmas-terror-threat Spain on Monday relaxed its policy banning officers from the country's oldest police force, the Guardia Civil, from exhibiting tattoos. https://www.thelocal.es/20211109/spains-civil-guard-police-officers-allowed-to-have-visible-tattoos Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:38:31 +0100 spains-civil-guard-police-officers-allowed-to-have-visible-tattoos The partner of a British hiker who went missing in the French Pyrenees last November has found her body, her family said on Tuesday, adding that an accident was "the most likely hypothesis". https://www.thelocal.es/20210810/partner-finds-body-of-missing-british-hiker-close-to-border-between-france-and-spain Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:48:14 +0200 partner-finds-body-of-missing-british-hiker-close-to-border-between-france-and-spain A major Italian mafia fugitive who controlled cocaine routes within Europe has been returned by authorities to Rome from Spain, police said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.es/20210515/spanish-police-return-italian-mafia-fugitive-to-italy-after-three-years-on-the-run Sat, 15 May 2021 12:56:02 +0200 spanish-police-return-italian-mafia-fugitive-to-italy-after-three-years-on-the-run A Mallorca man who infected 22 people with Covid-19 has been arrested on suspicion of assault for going to work and the gym despite signs he had the virus, police said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.es/20210424/im-going-to-infect-you-all-with-coronavirus-spanish-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:56:37 +0200 im-going-to-infect-you-all-with-coronavirus-spanish-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault A former British rapper and notorious Islamic state suspect has been arrested in Spain, judicial sources said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20200422/spanish-police-arrest-british-rapper-turned-isis Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:37:28 +0200 spanish-police-arrest-british-rapper-turned-isis The Spanish government said it would use mobile phone location data to track people's movements and see how closely a nationwide lockdown is being respected. https://www.thelocal.es/20200402/spain-plans-to-use-mobile-phone-data-to-track-citizens-during-coronavirus-crisis Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:12:37 +0200 spain-plans-to-use-mobile-phone-data-to-track-citizens-during-coronavirus-crisis Spain appointed Friday a woman to head the country's oldest police force, the Guardia Civil, for the first time in the agency's 175-year history. https://www.thelocal.es/20200118/spain-gets-first-woman-national-police-chief Sat, 18 Jan 2020 11:36:24 +0100 spain-gets-first-woman-national-police-chief Two Spanish robbers who tried to flee on foot after snatching a bag containing 3,000 euros ($3,300) met with more than they bargained for when one of the police officers pursuing them turned out to be a record-holding sprinter. https://www.thelocal.es/20191224/police-sprinting-champ-bags-spanish-purse-snatchers Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:12:30 +0100 police-sprinting-champ-bags-spanish-purse-snatchers Spanish police have arrested six people and seized 16,000 marijuana plants hidden within pine forests in remote Aragon. https://www.thelocal.es/20191118/police-in-spain-discover-vast-cannabis-plantation-hidden-in-pine-forests-of-aragon Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:35:10 +0100 police-in-spain-discover-vast-cannabis-plantation-hidden-in-pine-forests-of-aragon Three Spanish police officers who were thrown into the sea when their boat crashed early Friday during a high-speed chase were pulled to safety by the drug-smugglers they were chasing, police said. https://www.thelocal.es/20191005/spanish-police-saved-from-sea-by-smugglers-they-were-chasing Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:07:41 +0200 spanish-police-saved-from-sea-by-smugglers-they-were-chasing An investigation has been launched after it emerged that hundreds of bottles of booze had disappeared from the evidence room of a police headquarters in Zaragoza. https://www.thelocal.es/20190930/spanish-police-try-to-solve-the-mystery-of-disappearing-booze-from-evidence-room Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:12:11 +0200 spanish-police-try-to-solve-the-mystery-of-disappearing-booze-from-evidence-room A Spanish court has ordered eight police officials to be put under formal investigation over their alleged role in a violent crackdown against a banned 2017 independence referendum in Catalonia, according to a ruling published Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190906/eight-police-officers-to-be-investigated-over-violence-at-catalan-referendum-polls Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:36:16 +0200 eight-police-officers-to-be-investigated-over-violence-at-catalan-referendum-polls Spanish police said Wednesday they have arrested an Algerian man who allegedly snatched his two-year-old daughter at gunpoint in Britain and fled the country with her. https://www.thelocal.es/20190807/man-held-in-spain-over-alleged-kidnap-of-daughter-in-britain Wed, 07 Aug 2019 16:22:50 +0200 man-held-in-spain-over-alleged-kidnap-of-daughter-in-britain The mother of two young children was detained by police on Thursday evening after she confessed that her two children were dead and buried on scrubland near her home. https://www.thelocal.es/20190315/tragic-end-to-police-search-for-missing-children-in-valencia-bodies-found-mother-arrested Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:50:43 +0100 tragic-end-to-police-search-for-missing-children-in-valencia-bodies-found-mother-arrested The Guardia Civil have launched a desperate hunt for two young children on Thursday afternoon after they were reported missing in the town of Godella in Spain’s eastern Valencia region. https://www.thelocal.es/20190314/police-launch-hunt-for-4-year-old-and-baby-missing-in-valencia Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:46:32 +0100 police-launch-hunt-for-4-year-old-and-baby-missing-in-valencia A Spanish man who allegedly lived with the body of his dead mother for up to a year to continue to collect her pension has been arrested, police said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181213/spaniard-lives-with-dead-mothers-body-to-collect-pension Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:51:53 +0100 spaniard-lives-with-dead-mothers-body-to-collect-pension