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British murder fugitive arrested in Mallorca after skipping parole

Spanish police said on Monday they had arrested a British man on the resort island of Mallorca who went missing after being granted parole while serving a murder sentence in Britain.

Published: 6 October 2015 08:49 CEST
British murder fugitive arrested in Mallorca after skipping parole
Archive photo: Keith Allison/Flickr

The police said the man was detained on Saturday in the town of Calvia for allegedly assaulting a British woman in the area in August. They did not reveal his identity.

British police officers sent to the island to help their Spanish counterparts patrol the resort probed the man's background and found that London has issued a European arrest warrant for him after he fled his homeland while on parole.

 

Calvia is close to Magaluf, a resort that attracts hundreds of thousands of British tourists each year.

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Dutch woman arrested over shooting of right-wing Spanish politician

A Dutch woman was arrested in the Netherlands in relation to an attack on a right-wing Spanish politician who was shot in Madrid, Spanish police said on Tuesday.

Published: 1 May 2024 08:18 CEST
Dutch woman arrested over shooting of right-wing Spanish politician

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a founder of Spain’s far-right Vox party, was shot in the face in broad daylight near his home in the upscale Salamanca neighbourhood on November 9 by a motorcycle passenger.

Long a supporter of the Iranian opposition, the 78-year-old Vidal-Quadras has accused the Iranian regime of involvement in the shooting.

Four people had already been arrested as part of the investigation into the shooting, but the suspected gunman — a French national of Tunisian origin with several previous convictions in France — remains at large.

“A woman was arrested in Holland for her alleged participation in the financing and preparation of the attack on Vidal-Quadras,” the national police said in a brief statement.

Police said she was detained after Spain issued a European arrest warrant.

Vidal-Quadras was a member and then vice-president of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2014.

He was also a former head of the centre-right People’s Party in Catalonia.

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