Dublin Man Gets 22 Years for His Role in Fatal Mijas Shooting
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FREE COPY WORLD CUP THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Spain suffer, Official market leader but still joint Audited by PGD/OJD June 22nd to 28th 2018 group leaders www.surinenglish.com After their draw against Portugal La News 2 What To Do 48 Comment 24 Sport 53 Roja beat Iran on Lifestyle 26 My Home 61 Food & Drink 45 Classified 64 Wednesday 56-58 in English Health & Beauty 41 Pastimes 70 Authorities remove 15 tonnes of jellyfish from beaches and sea The swarm forced yellow flags up on the Costa de Sol last weekend in an unusual phenomenon Bathers on beaches between Nerja and Benalmádena last weekend found themselves sharing their space with thousands of jellyfish. The invasion had no single explanation and was impossible to predict said experts. Cleaning operations have removed more than 15 tonnes of the inverte- brates from beaches and sea. P4 British firms have invested 250 million euros in Andalucía in five years, says Chamber of TRUMP PROMISES KING Commerce report P18 HE’LL VISIT SPAIN “Women’s voices are refusing to be silenced”. Felipe VI told the US president that Europe Soprano and activist Barbara Hendricks sings in is worried about trade tariffs P23 Nerja Cave festival P30 Torremolinos Foreign Residents Department prepares to step up services available to the international Donald Trump, King Felipe, Melania Trump and Queen Letizia at the White House on Tuesday. :: REUTERS community P5 Andalucía calls for more resources Dublin man gets 22 from central government after 1,700 years for his role in migrants arrive in one weekend P2 fatal Mijas shooting The Malaga provincial court has sen- man. Instead the sentence states A jury found tenced James Quinn to 22 years in that the defendant was a “necessary James Quinn prison for his role in the murder of participant” in the murder, waiting fellow Irish national, Gary Hutch, in the getaway car while the uni- guilty in the Gary in Mijas Costa in September 2015. dentified killer shot Hutch at least The 35-year-old was found guilty 15 times inside a residential devel- Hutch murder trial last Friday for his role in Hutch’s opment. He was also found guilty killing, although the jury did not of illegal possession of firearms. last week consider that evidence provided in Quinn’s lawyer is expected to ap- court proved that he was the gun- peal the sentence. P14 22222222 June 22nd to 28th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH The president of the Junta de An- Protests likely if ‘La dalucía, Susana Díaz, praised the Junta asks government for help new Spanish prime minister’s ac- Manada’ group, tion in accepting the Aquarius, but accused of rape, after mass arrival of migrants said she thought it was “dangerous” to use immigration as a political are released on bail weapon and that the onus was on Brussels to produce measures and a after court decision Nearly 1,700 migrants other NGOs were all involved in at- clear policy regarding what is hap- arrived in Cadiz and tending to the migrants, 500 of whom pening in the Mediterranean. are now sleeping in sports centres in The president of the PP-A party, :: MELCHOR SÁIZ-PARDO Malaga provinces last Jerez, Cadiz and Tarifa because there Juanma Moreno, accused the gov- MADRID. Women’s right groups weekend by boat and the is nowhere else for them. The police ernment of ignoring Andalucía have said they will organise pro- region lacks resources to stations are under considerable strain where, he said, the equivalent of “two tests if the five men who were because every migrant has to be taken Aquarius ships” had arrived within accused of the rape of a woman deal with them for document checks and processing. a few hours. He also complained that during Pamplona’s San Fermín The vice-president of the Junta, the migrants whose boats were in- bull-running festival in July 2016 :: MARÍA DOLORES TORTOSA Manuel Jiménez Barrios, said the tercepted in the Strait of Gibraltar are released on bail. The men, MALAGA. The Junta de Andalucía Spanish government needs to step in were not able to be given the same known as ‘La Manada’, or The has requested assistance from the because Andalucía doesn’t have the levels of attention as those who ar- Pack, after the nickname they government to deal with nearly 1,700 resources “to give these people the rived in Valencia port on Sunday. gave themselves, had been found migrants who arrived by boat in the help they need”. The general coordinators of Po- guilty in April of the lesser crime region last weekend. The Junta’s minister for Equality demos Andalucía and Izquierda of sexual assault but had then “We’re finding it difficult to han- and Social Policy, María José Sánchez Unida, Teresa Rodríguez and Anto- appealed the decision. dle them all,” said a spokesman for Rubio, also called on the government Members of the Red Cross at nio Maíllo, also asked the European Now judges in Pamplona, Na- the Police Union, referring to the to help, saying this should be a mat- work in Malaga on Monday. :: SUR Union not to “look away” and to varra, have ruled that they can 1,396 people who were intercepted ter for the State to deal with. “This modify their migration policies to be released on 6,000 euros bail on the Alborán Sea and the Strait of should not be the responsibility of a ius refugee ship in Valencia, after guarantee the rights of people who each while the appeal is being Gibraltar and another 254 who were town or a region; it has to be a mat- the Spanish government agreed to arrive in these conditions. And not processed. The statutory two rescued and taken to different Anda- ter for the country,” she said. allow it to come here when other all of them arrive. A boat carrying years to hold a low-risk accused lusian ports. This mass influx of migrants coin- countries were refusing, so obvi- 43 migrants also sank in the Alborán person without a definitive sen- The Junta, police, Red Cross and cided with the arrival of the Aquar- ously comparisons are being made. Sea on Saturday. tence is nearing its end on July. Details of the latest decision should formally be announced MIGRANTS today (Friday 22 June). It was reached by a vote of two to one RESCUED BY THE of the presiding judges and is ex- SHIP ‘AQUARIUS’ pected to say that there is no risk that the five will attempt to flee ARRIVE IN SPAIN or reoffend. The case has had a very high profile in the media. The 630 migrants who were rescued by the Aquarius in the Mediterranean recently are now safely in Spain. They ar- rived in Valencia on Sunday in three boats, including the Aquarius, and the world’s press was there to meet them together with health profes- sionals, interpreters and Red Cross volunteers. Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez agreed to take the migrants in after a stalemate in which It- aly and Malta refused. They will receive free health care and will be able to apply for asylum. :: EFE Protests earlier this year. :: EFE June 22nd to 28th 2018 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Last-minute agreement means no New online system for strike in the hospitality sector complaints about airlines :: PILAR MARTÍNEZ for passengers with mobility dif- MALAGA. The busiest time of ficulties etc. The deal will remain in year for travel is about to start and AESA also points out that if a force for five years, the this is when flight cancellations passenger is denied boarding, or and delays are more likely. When their flight is cancelled or seri- longest period so far, and this happens, people are usually ously delayed, they could be en- includes a salary increase entitled to make a claim against titled to compensation of be- and equal conditions for the airline but many fail to do so tween 250 and 600 euros, de- because they are going on holiday pending on the distance of the the ‘Kellys’ and can’t spare the time. flight, although the amount can To make it easier, the national be reduced by 50 per cent if the ::PILAR MARTÍNEZ air safety agency (AESA) has now airline offered alternative trans- MALAGA. The tourism sector in put an online form on its website port or makes up the time lost. Malaga breathed a huge sigh of re- so people can lodge any complaints Passengers who arrive over lief when agreement was reached and also track the progress of their three hours late at their destina- in the early hours of Tuesday claim. The website is www.seguri- tion may be entitled to the same morning which meant that there dadaerea.gob.es, and there is a sec- compensation as for cancellation, would not, after all, be a strike by tion for complaining about can- unless the airline can prove that hotel staff and bar and restaurant celled or delayed flights, being de- it was due to an extraordinary workers during the peak summer nied permission to board, access circumstance. season. Photo taken at 2am on Tuesday, when agreement was reached. :: SUR The agreement will also bring an end to the discrimination suf- tions which were described as “in- longer be heard. “This is a landmark fered by the so-called ‘Kellys’, ho- tense”. agreement; it will bring peace,and tel room cleaners, who are outsour- Other key points are a 13 per progress in work flexibility and train- ced and earn much less than col- cent salary increase over a five- ing.