Police in Alicante province arrested a surf club instructor over ten alleged sexual assaults involving students under 18. The head of their language school filed the complaint after speaking to parents. Police said the students gave matching accounts and identified the same man. He is now before Alicante’s duty court and has not been convicted.
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Policía Nacional arrested a 43-year-old man in Málaga over child sexual abuse files. Police say a repair worker found illegal files on his PC and raised the alarm. A judge then let police search the man's home. They seized 14 storage devices that held thousands of files. The man was handed to the court.
False bomb threats affected European flights on 5 November. Two Iberia services landed normally in Madrid, while an Air Europa flight to Paris was evacuated before departure. An Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome diverted to France. No explosives had been found in the reported cases. Accounts differed on the number of flights affected.
A Navarra court sentenced a man to five years and 11 months in prison for sexual assault, abuse and threats against his partner. The sentence followed an agreement between the prosecutor, private prosecution and defence. It also includes community work, a 16-year restraining order, €30,000 in civil liability and eight years of supervised release.
A cyberattack hit cooling controls at three French blood service sites. The EFS said staff saved the plasma, with no blood products lost or break in supplies. France’s Health Ministry blocked remote access to the units hit. Officials are still looking into the attack and have not named a suspect.
Police arrested six people in a joint inquiry into the alleged sale of minors. The searches were in Badajoz, Montijo and Linares. The case remains open, and no court outcome is reported.