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Spanish man lives with dead mother’s body to collect pension

A Spanish man who allegedly lived with the body of his dead mother for up to a year to continue to collect her pension has been arrested, police said Thursday.

Published: 13 December 2018 17:51 CET
Spanish man lives with dead mother's body to collect pension
The address in Madrid where the grim discovery was made. Photo: Google Maps.

Officers found the woman's “badly decomposed” body at a Madrid flat on Wednesday after receiving a call from neighbours who reported a “strong odour”, a police spokesman said.

Police then detained the woman's 62-year-old son for fraud for failing to report her death aged 92 and continuing to collect her pension, he added.   

“The son did not do what he should have done,” the spokesman said, adding that the man lived in the flat with his mother's remains for “several months, possibly almost a year”.

The grim discovery was made on Wednesday in the flat at number 12, Calle Salvador Alonso in the San Isidro neighbourhood of Madrid. 

READ ALSO: Son and daughter jailed for neglecting 76-year-old sick mother

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Spanish police smash international drug-smuggling ring

Spanish police have smashed an international network led by Turkish nationals suspected of smuggling "large amounts" of marijuana and heroin from Spain to other European nations, police said on Tuesday.

Published: 25 June 2024 16:43 CEST
Spanish police smash international drug-smuggling ring

Raids in 28 locations in the southern cities of Granada, Málaga and Seville earlier this month netted caches of money and weapons, as well as 10 luxury vehicles and over two tonnes of marijuana, Spain’s Guardia Civil police force said.

Officers arrested 36 suspects from 10 nations as part of the operation, including the suspected leader of the network, a man of Turkish origin who lived in Spain and was the target of an international arrest warrant issued by Turkey, they added.

The group “was focused on exporting large amounts of marijuana and heroin from our country to Germany and other nations in Eastern Europe”, police said.

The arrested suspects also included nationals from Argentina, Austria, Germany, Montenegro, Romania, Spain, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela.

European Union police force Europol, which coordinated the investigation, said over 400 officers from French, Spanish and Turkish law enforcement agencies took part in the operation.

Spain is one of the main entry points for drugs into Europe given its close ties with Latin America and its proximity to Morocco.

Latin America is the main source of cocaine and Morocco is a key source of hashish, a sticky brown substance made from the resin of the cannabis plant.

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