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Mick Jagger’s daughter fined after Ibiza police incident

Jade Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger, was ordered Friday to pay a 1,400-euro ($1,500) fine after her arrest for allegedly assaulting a Spanish policewoman, court documents and police said.

Jade Jagger
Jade Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger, was ordered on May 19th, 2023 to pay a 1,400-euro ($1,500) fine after her arrest for allegedly assaulting a Spanish policewoman, court documents and police said. The incident occurred on May 17th evening when police were called to investigate an incident at a restaurant in Ibiza Town, the island's capital, a statement from the Balearic Islands branch of the SUP police union said. Photo by: Cindy Ord / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

The incident occurred on Wednesday evening when police were called to investigate an incident at a restaurant in Ibiza Town, the island’s capital, a statement from the Balearic Islands branch of the SUP police union said.

Following a confrontation, police arrested Jagger, 51, and her male companion, the union said.

At a hearing on Friday, the judge ordered Jagger to pay “a four-month daily fine of 10 euros per day for resisting arrest, and a 20-day fine of 10 euros for causing minor injury,” a court statement said.

It also said she must “pay the victim 800 euros” in compensation.

The court handed her companion “four months of prison for assaulting a figure of authority”.

According to the union, restaurant staff had called the police to report a male customer “insulting and threatening customers and staff” who appeared to be either “drunk or under the influence of drugs”.

When they arrived, the police asked for his details but he “refused, ignoring police instructions and finally assaulting several of them”, it said.

Jagger had “rushed at a policewoman and attacked her, causing her several physical injuries”, prompting police to arrest the pair, it added.

“You cannot attack police with impunity,” the SUP said, indicating it was filing a complaint against her.

Jade Jagger is a jewellery designer and the second daughter of the 79-year-old Rolling Stones frontman, who has eight children, the youngest of whom is six.

She is Jagger’s only daughter with his first wife, the Nicaraguan model and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, whom he married in 1971 and divorced eight years later.

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FARMING

Spain farmers jailed for illegal water tapping at nature reserve

Five siblings have been jailed for more than three years for illegally extracting water from an aqueduct feeding a UNESCO-listed Spanish nature reserve that is threatened by desertification, a court ruling showed.

Spain farmers jailed for illegal water tapping at nature reserve

The five farmers – four men and a woman – were found guilty of crimes against the environment and causing damage for “putting the ecosystem at serious risk through the “systematic and extensive extraction” of water supplying Donana National Park, said the ruling dated September 18th that was seen by AFP on Friday.

One of Europe’s largest fauna-rich wetlands, Donana is located in the southern Andalusia region.

If confirmed by a higher court, it would be the first ruling to involve a jail sentence for illegally tapping water from Donana, a site that has become a symbol of the growing scarcity of water in Spain sparking fierce political debate, El Pais newspaper said.

The siblings were found guilty of extracting 19 million cubic litres of water for their Hato Blanco Viejo ranch over a five-year period between 2008 and 2013, leaving the groundwater reserves in “poor condition” and causing permanent lagoons to become seasonal due to the lower water levels, it said.

The defendants, who have been slapped with more than a dozen fines for water-related issues since the last 1990s, must also pay 2.0 million euros ($2.1 million) in compensation to the Guadalquivir Water Authority, the public body responsible for local water management.

READ ALSO: Illegal water use dries out key Spanish lagoon

They have also been banned from cultivating crops for two years.

Vote due on controversial water bill

Donana, whose diverse ecosystem of lagoons, marshes, forests and dunes stretch across 100,000 hectares, is on the migratory route of millions of birds each year and is home to many rare species such as the Iberian lynx.

But the park has been struggling due to an ongoing drought and is also threatened by intensive agriculture in the area.

Despite warnings from UNESCO and the European Commission, Andalusia’s right-wing regional government is pushing to extend irrigation rights near the park, with a draft law seeking to regularise berry farms that are currently irrigated by illegal wells.

READ ALSO: Spain’s parties seek out ‘drought votes’ ahead of general election

The bill will be put to a vote in the coming weeks and if it passes, environmental groups warn it could legitimise 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) of crops, jeopardising the future of this UNESCO-listed reserve that is threatened by desertification.

In that instance, Spain’s left-wing government has pledged to appeal while UNESCO has warned that the law could see the park lost its status as a protected World Heritage site.

The draft bill played a key role in the political campaigning earlier this year ahead of local polls in May and a general election in July in a country where 80 percent of water resources are ploughed into agriculture, Spain is the world’s biggest exporter of olive oil and the European Union’s biggest producer of fruit and vegetables.

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