FREE COPY WORLD CUP 2018 THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Malaga’s starlet Official market leader shines on the Audited by PGD/OJD June 29th to July 5th 2018 big stage www.surinenglish.com En-Nesyri scored in the 2-2 thriller against Spain News 2 Food & Drink 50 Comment 23 Sport 54 who still finished group Lifestyle 24 My Home 61 What To Do 40 Classified 64 winners P54&55 in English Health & Beauty 44 Pastimes 70 Marbella bags 12-million-euro cashback from Roca corruption asset sell-off The judge in charge of Malaya has returned some THE JOURNEY CONTINUES of the recovered funds to the town Twelve years after the Malaya cor- ruption scandal broke at Marbella council, the resort is starting to see more of the millions of euros looted from the town returned to the mu- nicipal coffers. At the end of last week the judge in charge of the case delivered a cheque for 12 million euros to the mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz. Initially any funds raised from the sale of the multi-million-euro as- sets seized from Malaya master- mind Juan Antonio Roca were des- ignated to central government to pay off the municipal tax and so- cial security debt. A more recent agreement, how- ever, means that the local council can have access to the funds to in- vest in local projects. P4 Spain’s new PM Most of the more than 200 steps out for first African migrants who spent three days in a Malaga sports centre after meeting with being rescued at sea on Saturday European leaders have moved on with the help of Cruz Roja. The city’s port prepares for Pedro Sánchez debuted more arrivals P2&3 on the international stage with meetings with Merkel The migrants in the sports hall before their departure on Wednesday. :: SALVADOR SALAS and Macron this week P20 Discover the essence of the Turquoise Coast in this month’s Travel section Andrew Forbes explores the Turkish Riviera P34-38 22222222 June 29th to July 5th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Three days in a sports hall - it makes them feel useful. That is important. Some, like Jan, are from Guinea, what now? but others are from Mali, Ivory Coast, Eritrea and Ghana and they are all part of the group of over 200 migrants rescued on Saturday and brought into Malaga Port while not far away local residents were pad- dling in the sea as they celebrated the Night of San Juan on the beaches. From there, the adult males (the majority) were taken to the sports centre, where they were kept un- der watch by the National Police. Meanwhile the women and chil- dren were taken to alternative ac- commodation and shelters. Cruz Roja workers initially pro- vided medical and humanitarian as- A Cruz Roja volunteer gives out sistance in the port, then looked af- bread for breakfast. :: SALVADOR SALAS ter the migrants at the sports cen- tre and then, as the time for them to leave approached, began to carry out other tasks: helping to make the The hundreds of migrants who arrived in Malaga at the complicated travel arrangements to Two routes have been other cities in Spain, and disman- weekend are now able to move on, with the help of Cruz Roja organised: a coastal one to tling the temporary facilities at Tiro Barcelona and an inland one de Pichón. They worked extremely hard to about to tell. In the images he looks reassure him: the little girl was taken to the Basque Country help the migrants reach the places hot and exhausted as he walks on straight to a foster family and “it they wanted to go, and find family the Gurugu mountain in Morocco, seems she’s OK”, they tell him, but networks elsewhere in the country. ANA which is used as a temporary refuge Jan has to move on today. He has kry in Guinea, six months ago and The diaspora began on Wednes- PÉREZ-BRYAN for thousands of migrants who, like spent 72 hours under police custody the horrors Jan tells of the journey day morning: at midday, about 100 Jan, are hoping to reach the prom- at the sports centre and now, as a are exacerbated by the tragedy which people got on the first coaches, Twitter: @anaperezbryan ised land. free man, has to decide what to do has now befallen this family which clutching their tickets and a bag of You can hardly understand what while still not knowing what will has been divided into two. food; another 50 or so followed in Jan is desperate to find his he is saying in the video, although happen to his niece. He is still tor- “This is so hard, it’s really, really the afternoon and about 80 re- two-year-old niece, and you can guess, because you can see mented by the memory of her in- awful,” sobs the young man, col- mained under the protection of the that he is carrying his two-year-old consolable sobbing during the hours lapsed on a chair as the compatriots Spanish Commission for Refugee Mohamed wants to join the niece on his shoulders. The little girl of hell on the boat. with whom he has shared space for Assistance (CEAR) in Malaga be- army. Just two of the stories rests heavily upon her uncle. Now, “I want to go to France; her fa- the past few days begin to collect cause they have applied for asylum. of those who have risked though, he doesn’t know where she ther is waiting for us there,” says up their scarce belongings. They help “You’re OK, you’ve got the white is, and that is why he has been glued Jan. He is also distressed for another the 20 or so Cruz Roja staff who have wristband and you’ll get to Bilbao their lives to get here to his mobile since arriving at Malaga reason: his sister - the little girl’s been caring for them to dismantle with no problem,” says one of the port last Saturday with dozens oth- mother - and the baby of the fam- the beds, put away the blankets and workers to a boy who isn’t sure which MALAGA. Jan is 21 and has barely ers. ily, just ten months old, are still in store the enormous boxes of food queue to join. He and others with the put his mobile phone down since The Cruz Roja (Spanish Red Morocco, on that inhospitable and water in the sports centre. The white wristbands will travel the in- last Saturday. He searches among Cross) staff who have been looking mountain waiting to be able to get heat is unbearable, but this is a way land route (Madrid, Zaragoza, San Se- the videos and games. “Look,” he after the migrants at the Tiro de Pi- on a boat. for them to show their appreciation bastián and Bilbao). Others with a says, to illustrate the story he is chón sports centre in Malaga try to The four left their native Cona- of the assistance given to them, and pink wristband are following the June 29th to July 5th 2018 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Too few resources to deal with mass arrivals :: F. JIMÉNEZ / Á. FRÍAS rocco there are thousands of people Mediterraneananean mothersmother who were MALAGA. Migrants prepared to from the sub-Sahara just waiting route, stoppingping in anxiouslyanxiou awaiting risk their lives in the search for a for their chance,” said the provin- Almeria, Murcia,rcia, Va- news that they better future have arrived on the cial coordinator of Cruz Roja, Sam- lencia and Barcelona.rcelona. hadn’t died cross- Malaga coast in the past, but not to uel Linares. “I don’t know if we’ll Mohamed,ed, 25, ing thethe Strait,” says such an extent as other places, such be able to cope”. was heading for Bar- Rosa, one of the as Tarifa, Algeciras and Motril. How- Nor do the police, who have to celona. He wasas alone Cruz RojaR staff. It is ever, more are coming nowadays: check the documents of every mi- and had no ideaea what a politicallypolitic incorrect the 315 from the sub-Sahara who grant and keep them under guard he would find therehere but attitude,attitude but is not un- were rescued last Saturday bring the for 72 hours, or the lawyers, who was sure it couldn’tldn’t bebe commoncommo when people total in Malaga to 1,484 this year, also provide assistance. any worse than what lay are sittingsittin on their com- practically double those who arrived Malaga council responded im- behind him, becauseause this fortable sofass watching the in 2017 (851) and five times more mediately to a call for help last week young man with a degree in images of the migrants on TV. than the 324 who received assis- by facilitating the use of the sports Industry has been tryingying to get Rosa also answers the question tance in the first six months of 2016, hall, but is now thinking of creat- away for five years. about howhow the phones survive the according to Cruz Roja, which pro- ing a semi-permanent reception “I spent more than a year in Mo-Mo- boat journey.jou “They wrap them in vides humanitarian assistance when centre on the fairground to attend rocco waiting to do the crossing,”ng,” condomscon so they don’t get wet. One they reach land. And this is just the properly to those who arrive in the he admits.