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 Spanish court on Tuesday allowed an Ivory Coast man to walk free, with only a small fine to pay, after his son was found crammed into a suitcase at a border crossing. https://www.thelocal.es/20180221/father-of-suitcase-boy-walks-free-as-family-reunited Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:44:20 +0100 father-of-suitcase-boy-walks-free-as-family-reunited The heart-rending photo went round the world in 2015, showing an eight-year-old boy from Ivory Coast crammed into a suitcase that was found at a Spanish border crossing. https://www.thelocal.es/20180220/father-of-boy-smuggled-into-spain-in-suitcase-on-trial Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:17:28 +0100 father-of-boy-smuggled-into-spain-in-suitcase-on-trial Spanish police found an Albanian migrant hidden in the trunk of a car that was about to board a ferry on Thursday in the northern port of Santander bound for Britain. https://www.thelocal.es/20151009/spanish-police-find-migrant-in-car-heading-to-britain Fri, 09 Oct 2015 10:53:19 +0200 spanish-police-find-migrant-in-car-heading-to-britain A Spanish judge on Tuesday remanded in custody a French man of Moroccan origin whose brother died entering Spain illegally hidden inside a suitcase, in the trunk of his car. https://www.thelocal.es/20150805/brother-of-man-who-died-in-suitcase-charged Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:34:27 +0200 brother-of-man-who-died-in-suitcase-charged A man from northern Africa who hid inside a suitcase on a ferry bound for mainland Spain died on Sunday while making the five hour crossing. https://www.thelocal.es/20150803/immigrant-dies-inside-suitcase-on-board-ferry Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:12:45 +0200 immigrant-dies-inside-suitcase-on-board-ferry A couple has been filmed pulling along a suitcase on a busy Barcelona street while riding a motorcycle, daredevil drivers or risky road users? Or perhaps just the latest "annoying tourist behaviour" to hit Spain’s second city. https://www.thelocal.es/20150717/suitcasing-craze-strikes-in-barcelona Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:31:32 +0200 suitcasing-craze-strikes-in-barcelona The eight-year-old boy was finally reunited with his mother, a month after he was discovered hidden inside a suitcase in an attempt to be smuggled into Spain to join his family. https://www.thelocal.es/20150608/suitcase-boy-reunited-with-mother-in-ceuta-spain-adou Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:20:38 +0200 suitcase-boy-reunited-with-mother-in-ceuta-spain-adou Adou, the eight-year-old boy who was discovered curled up inside a suitcase during a security scan, has been granted permission to stay in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20150521/suitcase-boy-can-stay-with-parents-in-spain Thu, 21 May 2015 14:56:54 +0200 suitcase-boy-can-stay-with-parents-in-spain An eight-year-old was discovered hiding in a suitcase as a woman attempted to smuggle him into Spain at the Ceuta border. https://www.thelocal.es/20150507/border-x-ray-reveals-boy-8-hidden-in-suitcase Thu, 07 May 2015 20:23:12 +0200 border-x-ray-reveals-boy-8-hidden-in-suitcase A young Moroccan girl who was smuggled into Spain by her father inside a suitcase has been given permission to stay in the country. https://www.thelocal.es/20140424/girl-smuggled-into-spain-inside-suitcase Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:31:49 +0200 girl-smuggled-into-spain-inside-suitcase Spanish police have caught a sub-Saharan immigrant hiding inside a suitcase as his carrier attempted to drag him across on foot into Spain’s African enclave of Melilla. https://www.thelocal.es/20140303/migrant-smuggled-into-spain-in-suitcase Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:06:00 +0100 migrant-smuggled-into-spain-in-suitcase