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Violent death
A 55-year-old man was beaten to death in Zaragosa last month for wearing the Spanish colours . His alleged attacker , a 33- year-old with a record of violence and now held in custody , reportedly called him a “ fascist ” for wearing braces with red and yellow stripes . The suspect served five years for leaving a Barcelona security guard as a quadriplegic following a beating in 2006 .
Family tragedy
A 40-year-old woman and her six-yearold nephew died last month in the Navarra town of Cintruénigo when an accumulation of gas caused a woodburning boiler to explode . Two other minors , aged eight and 12 , were seriously injured with fractures and burns . The tragedy occurred as 11 members of the same family had gathered for a birthday celebration .
Terror suspect
A 19-year-old man detained in the Madrid municipality of Majadahonda last month is suspected of being an IS member . The Interior Ministry says the Moroccan-born youth of Spanish nationality had used multiple identities on the internet to receive and send terrorist propaganda . It added he was detained after a , “ worsening of dangerous behaviour .”
Offender confesses
A 19-year-old man reported himself to police in Galicia last month , claiming he had assaulted his wife . The Cabo Verde national went with officers to his home , but he then tried to flee . He was caught and taken to a medical centre for sedation , only to find his wife had just left with a police report form after being treated for injuries .
Footpath project
The provincial government has approved a budget of almost € 340,500 to complete the coastal footpath between Vélez- Málaga and Rincón de la Victoria . The 470 metre link for pedestrians and cyclists will include a wooden bridge over the Santillán river . The stretch will eventually become part of the footpath which is planned to stretch along the entire coast of the province of Málaga .
Granada rocks
Two earthquakes were recorded below the sea off the coast of Granada last month . The first recorded at 1.32am registered 2.2 while the second at 9.46am was recorded with a strength of 3.4 . However , the tremors were gentle enough to go almost unnoticed along the Costa Tropical .
Ancient privileges for Nerja and Torrox
An early 18th century book , important to the development of Nerja and Torrox , has gone on display at the Nerja History Museum . The so-called “ Book of Privilege ” was granted by King Philip V , the first member of the French House of Bourbon to rule as Spain ’ s monarch . The document dating from 1705 has recently been restored by Málaga ’ s Provincial Archives and was put on display in the museum last December . However it only remained there until December 10 , after which it was replaced by a facsimile to ensure the book ’ s preservation .
Local historian Francisco Capilla has told the story of the volume in a video which is available on YouTube . In it , he explains that in the summer of 1505 , 18 years after the Axarquía was absorbed into the Crown of Castille , the Moroccan inhabitants of Nerja and Torrox departed for north Africa , leaving the land almost completely unpopulated .
The Crown ordered Vélez-Málaga to repopulate the area with 40 people allocated to Nerja and 70 to Torrox , but the area on the border of Granada was known to be dangerous and few wanted to make the move . So a wide range of local tax exemptions and other benefits were introduced in a charter to persuade them otherwise .
Despite this , Nerja was more or less abandoned from 1540 until the first sugar mill appeared in the 1590s and , thanks to sugar cane cultivation , the
An 18-year-old man died and two other people were seriously injured with burns in a fire which broke out in Antequera last month . The alert was raised at 7.30am on a Saturday morning by a neighbour who reported the outbreak at a two storey house in calle Mariano Beltrán de Lis .
The caller said that at least one person was trapped , but when fire crews extinguished the flames and were able to enter they found the body of the youth . An adult male was treated at the
Title page of Book of Privilege
town ’ s population began to grow and had risen to around 2,500 by the 18th century .
Then , in 1702 , the War of the Spanish Succession broke out bringing with it demands for additional taxes . Amongst other towns in similar positions , Nerja and Torrox sought to confirm the privileges granted to them two centuries earlier . Philip V agreed in order to maintain the municipalities ’ loyalties and this was confirmed to Nerja and Torrox in a 22-page leather bound book , the Book of Privilege , which is now kept in Nerja ’ s municipal archives .
Fatal Antequera fire
scene , while a 49-year-old woman who had tried to rescue the teenager was taken to hospital in Málaga for treatment . Two dogs also died in the fire .
National Police immediately opened an investigation into the incident . First evidence suggested that the fire may have had its origins in a brazier which was lit in the property . The outbreak was confined to one room where it appears the fatal victim had fallen asleep as black smoke filled the house .
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