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FREE COPY SPORT THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Malaga back in place for Official market leader Audited by PGD/OJD automatic January 25th to 31st 2019 www.surinenglish.com promotion News 2 Health & Beauty 41 Jack Harper was a key player in last Comment 22 Sport 46 Lifestyle 24 My Home 51 weekend’s comeback win at home What To Do 35 Classified 55 against Lugo P46 in English Food & Drink 40 Time out 62 STEPPING OUT WITH TOURISM The brand-new president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, and his deputy, Juan Marín, made their debut at Fitur in Madrid this week P8&9, 15 Juanma Moreno and Juan Marín in the Andalucía section at the international tourism fair in Madrid. :: SALVADOR SALAS Well-known Banús nightclub owner shot Miners take over for final stage dead outside his Marbella home early on Monday of underground rescue of Julen morning P4 Mijas Socialists break coalition pact leaving Cs Specialists are The complicated operation to reach through to the bottom of the bore- mayor Maldonado running the toddler who fell down a well 12 hole that Julen fell down on Sun- the town hall with just five being lowered days ago reached its final phase on day 13 January. The time it will take councillors P12 Thursday in Totalán. After a string to complete this part of the opera- down a 60-metre of obstacles hindered progress on tion depends on the hardness of the shaft to dig a the vertical rescue tunnel during earth or rock they have to dig Planning your holidays the week, this was finally finished through for the distance of around for 2019? Andrew Forbes tunnel to reach the and prepared for miners to go down three metres that separates the two on Thursday. Working in teams of shafts. Villagers and relatives organ- provides ten tips for flyers toddler two, and in short shifts, the miners, ised a vigil for Julen, his family and in this month’s Travel from Asturias, are digging at 60 me- rescue workers on Thursday eve- special P24-30 :: SUR tres below the surface to tunnel ning in Totalán. P2&3 British residents in Spain Spain and UK agree to will be able to vote in the May elections, Brexit or no allow voting in local ballots Brexit, deal or no deal P16 2 January 25th to 31st 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH The rescue site on the excavated hillside in Totalán on Thursday afternoon, just before the miners were lowered down the shaft. :: ÑITO SALAS The final stage in the operation to find two- year-old Julen gets under way in Totalán Eight specialists from Malaga city, goes into its 13th day, is thought to be. 70 metres would have been impos- stage of the operation, the insertion with engineers and specialist min- This work, using a jackhammer, sible however so first the rescuers of metal tubing to line the walls of the mining rescue ers working round the clock. axe and spade, was expected to take excavated the hillside to be able to the shaft. This was necessary to al- brigade in Asturias After days of complications, on around 24 hours. start at a lower level. low the special capsule built for the Thursday afternoon miners were Since Julen’s accident was first This is the first time in Spain that operation to travel up and down the have been working in eventually able to go down into the reported the rescue operation has a tunnel of this size has been dug to shaft in safety. shifts to dig through vertical tunnel drilled parallel to the grown to take the form of an un- a depth of 60 metres. The uneven surface of the tun- narrow 100-metre-deep hole the boy precedented feat of emergency civil Drilling, using machinery brought nel walls, however, meant that the to the toddler fell down on Sunday 13 January. engineering. from elsewhere in Spain, began on tubes came up against two obstruc- Working in pairs in 40-minute After several options were con- Saturday, although work was slower tions which had to be dealt with. :: JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO shifts, specialists from the Asturias sidered, the specialists decided to than hoped, due to a layer of espe- Engineers found that the wall of FRÍAS / FERNANDO TORRES Mining Rescue Brigade set about drill a new hole, or vertical tunnel, cially hard rock at a depth of 52 me- the tunnel that was completed on TOTALÁN. The rescue operation digging a horizontal tunnel from parallel to the original borehole the tres reached on Monday morning. Monday night had a protrusion that for Julen, the two-year-old boy who the bottom of the shaft through to boy fell down. The new hole was completed on blocked the path of the tubes at a fell down a borehole in Totalán, near the section of the hole where Julen Drilling to a depth of more than Monday evening, leading to the next depth of 40 metres. To prevent the January 25th to 31st 2019 NEWS 3 SUR IN ENGLISH Hundreds get involved Julen’s rescue operation in rescue, from visiting Sunday 13 Tuesday 15 Saturday 19 Monday 21 Julen falls into Excavation Machinery starts At 8.30pm the the hole starts on the to drill parallel drilling of the ver- experts to villagers hillside hole tical tunnel is completed and work starts to A vigil was organised the rescue workers and the boy’s Hole where insert tubing Julen is for Julen, his family and family who have been put up in Tuesday 22 a nearby property in the village (25cms the rescue workers on diameter) 1 The lining of the parallel hole to be closer to the operation than stopped on Tuesday at a depth of 42 Thursday evening their home in the Malaga suburb metres due to the uneven surface of of El Palo. the walls of the hole. :: SUR On Thursday evening the peo- TOTALÁN. Hundreds of peo- ple of Totalán were due to hold ple have been involved in the a vigil for Julen, his family and Metres A. 2 The walls were rescue operation since the tod- the rescue workers on what was (From top of smoothed and dler’s fall was first reported on likely to be his last night under- borehole) the tubing was Sunday 13 January. ground. -10 inserted to a depth Engineers, rescue workers Speaking on behalf of the of 50 metres where and security forces have worked family, Juan José Cortés - the fa- Metres it got stuck again together to get through the res- ther of Mari Luz, a five-year-old B. (From cue plan that involved engineer- girl who was abducted and mur- top of ing projects that would normally dered in 2008, who has been in -20 tunnel) take months to complete. Totalán since last week - said -23 0 Machinery was brought in that they were still praying for from around the country, a a miracle. Swedish firm has helped with The boy’s father, José Roselló -30 Wednesday 23 geolocation and the specialist spoke out on Thursday against 3 To get past the miners came down from As- rumours that were being spread second obstacle turias. The team of eight min- around social media about the at 50 metres the ers have been in Malaga for over family and the events of the day tubing was made tubing from getting stuck, it was re- a week, waiting for their chance Julen fell down the hole. He said -40 narrower at the moved and the drill set to work to do their difficult and danger- legal action would be taken bottom again, this time with the cutting ous part of the rescue operation. against anyone who spread false teeth on the side to smooth the in- Meanwhile the local people information with regard to the Thursday 24 side of the walls. have been giving their support to case. 4 After the tubing is The tubing began to be inserted -50 inserted the space again early on Wednesday morning, between the tube and the walls was however it came up against another filled with earth obstruction at a depth of 50 metres. This time the final ten metres of -60 tubing was narrowed by a team of solderers to avoid the protrusion in -42 5 The miners the wall of the shaft. descend in pairs Once completely lined, on Thurs- in a capsule to dig -71 a tunnel to reach day morning safety tests were car- Blockage the bottom of the ried out and a platform built at the -50 hole where Julen is entrance to the shaft. A Swedish ge- Area olocation firm, the same one that where helped locate the 33 Chilean min- Julen is ers in the 2010 accident, then con- expected -60 The digging of the tunnel : firmed that the “window” at the to be 6 Each pair of miners will dig with a bottom of the tube that the miners jackhammer, a spade and axe for found Space for would work through was properly 40 minutes. They will hold up the earth removed lined up with the hole where Julen roof and walls with wood by tunnellers is thought to be. A Guardia Civil officer walks past a sign put up by locals. :: AFP :: F. R. / A. F. / J. C./ SUR 4 NEWS January 25th to 31st 2019 SUR IN ENGLISH 112 REPORTS Well-known Banús nightclub owner Man held over Daesh link wanted to launch shot dead outside Marbella home attack on Manilva fair MALAGA The victim, who owned :: SUR.