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Brit dies after fall from tenth floor in Majorca

Police in Majorca are investigating the death of a 35-year-old British man who died after falling from the tenth floor of a building in the popular resort area of Magaluf, local press reported on Tuesday.

Brit dies after fall from tenth floor in Majorca
The resort town of Magaluf on the Spanish island of Majorca. File photo: effervescing elephant /Flickr

Police initially thought the man may have murdered, local newspaper Diario de Mallorca reported.

The UK citizen died who after falling ten stories and landing on a car parked out the front of 5 Magaluf Avenue.

His body was found at six o'clock on Tuesday by a local out walking his dog.

The man — identified by local daily Ultima Hora with the initials D.L.K — was found wearing only bathers and flip flops, and had a lock of his own hair on his arm.

Further investigations revealed no signs of violence at the scene, however, and the man's injuries were consistent with his fall, police reported.

Police are now trying to determine if the man's death was a suicide or an accident.

Sources at the British Embassy in Madrid told The Local they were aware of the death of a British citizen in Magaluf and that consular services in Majorca were currently providing support to the family of the man.
 

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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.

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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