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FRONTIER FRACAS THE Gibraltar cross-frontier group of business groups and unions has tried to thrash out ‘technical solutions’ for an EU treaty with the British territory’s leaders. In a meeting, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo gave the group’s leaders the latest updates on negotiations between the UK and the EU. During a discussion afterwards, the cross-frontier group put across their view that ‘the priorities and concerns of the citizens of Gibraltar and of the Campo de Gibraltar should come first’ in the EU treaty negotiations. Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia, who was also at the meeting, have been lobbying UK political parties for their support recently.“Work should continue to enhance the area of shared prosperity in the region which depends on a fluid border,” the meeting participants said in a Gibraltar Government statement. Negotiations on the EU treaty have continued intensively in both Spain and London nearly two years after Gibraltar signed the New Year’s Eve framework agreement in December 2019. If a treaty is not signed, Gibraltar’s frontier could become a hard EU border that would significantly hurt trade and the economic stability of the region.
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MALAGA offers one of the best qualities of life in Spain. Malaga, Cordoba and A new survey put Sevilla have among the best qualities of out of Spain’s mainthe city as sixth 15 cities. life in Spain ity, as well as a By Cristina Hodgson It is only beaten by Cordoba In total, it scored good airport with 66 points, with in Andalucia, in the poll by Cordoba only just beating of top great the Organisation it with 68 of 3,000places to live in the survey Forbesinternational connections. of Consumers and Users vironmental care and points in Andalucia. magazine also recently people in each of the (OCU). coun- it as one of cited Malaga was considered The city, with a climate. The the best cities to live population of the only other southern city to make try’s most populated locations. best places to live and one of the 577,405, also fared in The northern city top 10 was Sevilla scored 70 points Europe. at 10th with with praise for its costwork in Spain ‘abundance of leisure well for its 63 points, while Valencia (65) came despite having wet weather on a par The survey questioned residents’ of living, en- the facilities and seventh with Britain. opinions on mobility, digital infrastructures health and eduavailable’. Vigo, in and Alicante (64) ninth. Malaga is the fourth cation, Galicia, came top of sunniest city in ket, public safety, the labour marthe list Europe and the cost of living, has reasonable air qualpollution and urban environment, cleanliness.
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Fresh eyes Rape victim appeals for new look at crimes that may have involved German Maddie suspect in Spain POLICE in Spain are being urged to re-open any unsolved rape or child abuse cases that could involve a foreigner over the past two decades. It comes after dangerous paedophile Christian Brueckner was charged with five more serious sex crimes on the Algarve between 2000 and 2017. The German rapist, who has been named as an official suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, spent long periods of time in Spain. He criss-crossed the country on ‘dozens of occasions’, frequently staying in Granada, as well as Malaga, Almeria and Valencia, from 1995. Expats and locals are joining an Irish rape victim - allegedly attacked by Brueckner, 45, in 2004 - who believes there are ‘likely’ many more victims across the Iberian Peninsula. Hazel Behan, 39, told the Olive Press this week: “Given what we know about Brueckner’s past, alongside the crimes he has recently been charged with, surely it makes sense to revisit all unsolved similar cases in areas where he was known to spend significant
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lengths of time.” Behan, who was raped as a young holiday rep on the Algarve, is due to face her alleged attacker Brueckner in a German court in the Spring. Waving her right to anonymity, the mother-of-three, from Dublin, added: “Victims and their families deserve answers and closure. If there is any indication that Brueckner could be connected to a crime, then this needs the full attention of the police and warrants, at the very least, further investigation.” In addition to Behan, prosecutors in Germany have charged Brueckner with two further rapes, one of a teenage girl, around 15, as well as another woman in her ‘70s or 80s’.
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and 2008 and he was a regular visitor ‘until at least 2011’ revealed various former friends. “He was here on dozens of occasions in many vehicles, including his Jaguar, the famous VW van and even his giant winnebago,” one confirmed to the paper this week. “He was mostly coming here to buy and sell drugs, but who knows what else he got up to,” he added. It was allegedly during a weeklong visit to the Dragon bash in 2008 that he admitted to friends he was involved in the snatching of Maddie, then 3, on the Algarve, in May 2007. One Orgiva resident, Jo Chipchase, a mother-of-two, is ‘horrified’ that he could be behind crimes in her area. Chipchase, who attended the Dragon Festival and other parties at the time, added: “I often took my kids so it is horrifying to think that an international sexual predator was mingling among families using the itinerant and largely traveller community to hide within. “I was completely unaware of the dark element that was clearly lurking, but it would be a perfect way to mask his sick activities.” The former PR executive, 50,
added: “I think there should be more cross-border control of sex offenders to protect the public from crimes like this and anything unsolved, involving any potential links to Brueckner must be reopened.” Mayor of Orgiva, Raul Orellana, told the Olive Press: “I don’t think there are any ‘denuncias’ to corroborate crimes being committed by him during his time here.”
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Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, at Braunschweig Court, told the Olive Press Brueckner will face the five charges in ‘the Spring or early summer’. Wolters, whose department has been probing him over Maddie since 2018, added: “We are also certain that he killed the British toddler.” He would not speculate on any other crimes he might have committed in Spain, but confirmed his department would investigate any credible evidence. The Guardia Civil was not able to provide any information as we went to press. “We are looking into it, but it will probably take some time,” said a spokesman in Madrid. “We can’t comment at this stage.”