According to the latest reports, alleged financial irregularities relating to the municipal coffers of San Fernando. Cádiz, could be as much as €7.5 million.
Police investigating death of fisherman
Police are investigating the death of a sailor in Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz. The man was boatswain aboard the fishing vessel ‘Josefa y Luisa’ and had been living on the vessel for the past eighteen months.
Jellyfish
Officials from the Institute of Marine Sciences are asking people to be extra careful when bathing as a number of jellyfish (Portuguese Man o War – Physalia Physalis) were spotted off the coasts of Málaga and Cádiz during March.
Two detained for real estate fraud
UDYCO police officers have arrested two people as the alleged perpetrators of a real estate scam involving the sale of houses in Cádiz. The pair were taking money, either fees or deposits, from people all over the country for the purchase of houses in Cádiz. The only problem was that it was the same few houses involved each time. Fees …
Cádiz fishermen suffered a bad January
The fishing fleet out of Cádiz did not have a very good January at all, only managing to get out of port on three occasions due to the bad weather. The local fishermen’s brotherhoods consider the situation to be reaching a critical state for the industry in the area.
Five tons of hashish seized in Cádiz province
In two separate incidents, the Guardia Civil in Cádiz has seized over five tons of hashish. The first operation took place at the El Puerto de Santa María Yacht Club where a sailboat, moored in the marina on the false pretext of having broken down, was found to contain 3,000 kilos of hashish and pollen.
Big bust
National Police officers have seized more than 7,000 kilos of hashish in two operations carried out in Cádiz province. A total of five people have so far been arrested and are now enjoying the comforts of prison. The first operation, codenamed ‘Condor’, took place earlier this month when police officers seized one ton of hashish hidden on a pleasure boat …
Heavy rains cause much flooding
The heavy rains of Saturday morning left many garages and patios flooded in Málaga province, particularly along the western Costa del Sol. In Sevilla, forty litres of water per square metre fell in less than an hour. On the A-49 near Camas, the rains caused a lorry to topple from a bridge. Fortunately, the driver escaped unhurt.
Fatal industrial accident
A workman died on Tuesday afternoon after a sheet of metal 3 metres by ten metres fell on him while he was working on a site near junction 131 on the N-340 near Urbanización de Sotogrande in San Roque, Cádiz. Guardia Civil, medics and firefighters who arrived on the scene could do nothing other than salvage the lifeless body from under …
Fire in Cádiz province
The Campo de Gibraltar has suffered one of the worst fires of the summer in Spain, with 480 hectares of land destroyed so far and necessitating the evacuation of 1,000 people from their homes.