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The pedestrianised Arroyo Primero in Marbella, named in his Crowds at the opening night of the Torre del Mar beach festival on Wednesday. :: HUGO CORTÉS honour, has opened P9 Ryanair cabin crew to strike on 25 and 26 July in four countries Summer holiday disruption for air countries where they are based, Workers based in passengers is expected after Ryanair rather than applying Irish legisla- Spain, Portugal, cabin crew in four countries an- tion to contract conditions. nounced in Brussels on Thursday The company has around 1,800 Italy and Belgium that they will go on strike on 25 and cabin crew based in Spain, many of 26 July. Representatives of unions them in Malaga, and 4,000 across demand better from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Bel- the four countries, working on 2,000 gium explained that the workers flights a day. Ryanair has responded, working conditions were calling for the airline to com- defending the conditions of its em- ply with the labour laws of the ployees. P5 22222222 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Vélez-Málaga town hall searched and Local ‘Operation Creeper’ involved Police chief quizzed in backhander inquiry 92 searches across Spain The mayor of the Axarquía district has :: SUR denied the council has any MALAGA The wider operation involvement and nobody covered over 20 town halls, in- from the municipality has cluding Vélez-Málaga. In the raids this week, 39 people nationwide been charged were detained and for the mo- ment 18 will be investigated fur- :: AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ / JUAN ther by a judge for their alleged CANO involvement in corruption in the VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA. The town hall awarding of police traffic man- in Vélez-Málaga and the Local Po- agement software contracts. In lice headquarters were raided by total, 92 searches were carried National Police officers as part of out and some involved politicians a nationwide anticorruption op- from the PP, PSOE and Ciuda- eration on Tuesday. The inquiry danos parties. The Local Police concerns alleged backhanders in chiefs in Oviedo (Asturias) and the awarding of contracts for traf- Fuenlabrada and Pinto (Madrid fic control systems. The inquiry region) were also arrested. Sacyr, centres on a Catalan supplier of the owners of the company under highway technology to police investigation, has announced an called Aplicaciones Gespol, part of internal inquiry as well. the Sacyr group. The National Police operation The searches in Vélez-Málaga is led by the force’s specialist anti- were part of a widespread opera- corruption unit, UDEF, and has tion covering over 20 municipali- National Police officers outside Vélez-Málaga town hall on Tuesday during the search. :: EFE been named ‘Operación Enredad- ties across the country. Officials at era’ (Operation Creeper). Among the town hall were taken by sur- Searches started before 8am and for information about Gespol. chief told reporters that her client the alleged crimes being investi- prise, including the mayor, Anto- went on until 11am at the Local Po- The mayor said: “Vélez-Málaga denied any knowledge of the com- gated are misappropriation of pub- nio Moreno Ferrer. The head of the lice offices and 12.30pm at the town town hall has had no business rela- pany being investigated and had not lic funds, embezzlement, brib- Local Police, a town-hall controlled hall. Copies of hard drives with con- tionship with the group of compa- answered questions as he wasn’t al- ery, false documenting, interfer- service, was taken from his home tract information were taken from nies investigated and no council poli- lowed to hear full details of the in- ing with a price in a public ten- to be questioned at the National Po- each building. According to the tician is being investigated”. quiry. He was allowed to return der and belonging to a criminal lice’s station. mayor, officers were only looking The solicitor of the Local Police home without any charge. organisation. July 6th to 12th 2018 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Court in Fuengirola has to rewrite 394 case files destroyed by mistake The 78 boxes of and nobody had realised. documents were A source at the Junta de Anda- lucía says the boxes were stacked accidentally removed up and somebody who worked at from the archive and the judicial archive accidentally destroyed in October last included them with others which had been authorised to be removed year and nobody realised and destroyed. The contract for the company :: A. FRIAS/J. CANO which ran the archive ended in MALAGA. A Fuengirola court is April, and after putting it to ten- preparing for an extra-heavy work- der, a different company is now The destruction of legal documents has to be authorised by a special committee. :: SUR load in the near future: the Anda- running the facility. lusian High Court (TSJA) has or- to each case, including original docu- Not an easy task against such a decision. The Junta dered it to recollate all the infor- Permission has to be granted ments or court decisions which had Reconstructing the files will not de Andalucía also says that some mation lost when 394 files of legal If a judicial file is to be destroyed, already been taken. “For example, be an easy task. The process is laid of the documents in the files, but proceedings were accidentally de- permission has to be granted first if a couple have applied for a legal down by law, which says that the not all, will have been digitised so stroyed last year. by a committee formed by members separation and signed an agreement, parties involved must provide all that information can be retrieved. The matter only came to light of the Andalusian High Court and that agreement will be kept in the the documents they have so they Unions have been complaining recently when a lawyer went to the regional government’s Justice file. If things go badly and one of can be included in the file. If they for some time that the judicial ar- the court to ask for information ministry. This is normally done to them wants to use the agreement are willing to comply, have the chives are overcrowded, and the about a case he was handling. He clear space in the court archives. The as evidence for a claim, it won’t ex- documents or these can be obtained Junta recently invited bids from was informed that the proceedings committee decides whether the files ist any more because it has been de- again, there is no problem, but if companies to construct a 45,000- had been cancelled because 78 can be removed and destroyed, or stroyed. A situation could arise not then the matter has to be taken square-metre storage facility for boxes of legal files which were whether they should be passed to where one of them has lost their to a higher court, which will de- the legal files. Unfortunately only stored offsite at the Junta de An- other administrations. copy, and the other one claims they cide how the files have to be recon- one company was interested and dalucía’s archive on the Malaga One lawyer with clients affected don’t have theirs either, because stituted or will decree that this was turned down because it failed technology park (PTA) had been by this error says that the boxes con- that would work in their favour,” would prove impossible. Any of the to meet the requirements, so for destroyed by mistake last October tained everything which is relative he explains. parties involved could appeal the moment it cannot be built. 4 July 6th to 12th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH time before this, coming as a re- 112 REPORTS Drug trafficking gang operating sult of a tip-off from a joint police operation between officers in Bra- Man shot four times zil and Portugal. Having discov- ered that a deal had been sealed for outside Mijas bar through Algeciras brought down the buying and selling of cocaine in Madrid, the UCO aimed to iden- LAS LAGUNAS with the arrest of 21 people tify those involved immediately :: J. CANO. A man was taken to upon their entry into the country. Costa del Sol hospital in the early As a result, they learned of the ex- hours of Wednesday morning af- istence of an organised criminal ter receiving four gunshot Investigations by the gang located in the Campo de Gi- wounds. Guardia Civil have led to braltar region and with a network Emergency services were of traffickers based in Spain and called to a bar on Calle Dionisio these arrests, many of elsewhere. in Las Lagunas after receiving whom were port The investigators identified four several calls that gunshots had workers facilitating the tiers to the organisation, made up been heard.