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GUIDE ON PAGES 24 - 28 ISSUE NO. 1785
19 - 25 September 2019
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Parent assault A MAN who assaulted his parents in Felanitx and tried to make them eat an €11,000 painting by Miró has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The defendant, 52, pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him and will be expected to pay €3,000 to each of his parents for ‘moral damages’ and €800 for the injuries caused. He also has to pay his mother €3,480 for the trauma she has suffered after the event and pay the full value of the Miro painting that he destroyed as well as another Mayol painting that is yet to be valued. At around 10.45pm October 28 last year the man broke into the home of his 81 and 76-year-old parents and dragged his father down the stairs by the hair, laid him on the
floor and began punching him. He then broke two paintings up into small pieces and tried to make his father eat the pieces. The elderly couple’s ordeal lasted over three hours in which they endured physical abuse, insults and threats. He told the couple that he had hired a hit man to kill them and brandished a knife at his father and threatened to set fire to their house and their car. The man eventually took his mother’s bank card and PIN number to buy cocaine and one of the victims was able to get away and notify the police. The man was sentenced to 10 years, multiple fines, damages and a four-year restraining order.
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FATAL FALL
A TOURIST on holiday in Cala Vinyes fell to his death on Saturday after a railing apparently buckled. The Dutch national, 57, was attempting to retrieve a ball that the family had lost whilst playing in the pool when he lent on the railing. The man weighed over 100 kilograms and it is believed that it is his weight that caused the railing to give way. The man fell over 20 metres onto the rocks below and sustained serious injuries. Emergency services spent 45 minutes attempting to revive the man, but were unable to save him and he died on his way to hospital. Police have said that there was nothing wrong with the railing.
New documentation department THE town hall in Inca is waiting for an agreement with the Directorate General of the Police to be signed to install a new documentation department in their headquarters. The new department will deal with all documentation such as the issuing of identity cards and passports as well as processing all documents for foreigners such as NIE numbers. The documentation division would be lo-
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cated on one of the sides of the Luque headquarters building. It will cover an area of 180 square metres with a waiting area for 24 people, four expedition posts and an office for the team leader, as well as an archive room. The police will assume the costs of the necessary furniture and office equipment, as well as the refurbishment works of the building that are scheduled to finish next December.
MAN FALLS TO DEATH: A railing is believed to have buckled.