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Crime and Incidents

Fire
A blaze in an old 15 metre sailing boat caused alarm in the marina in San Antonio last week. There was no one aboard at the time, but she was damaged considerably by the flames, thought to have been caused by an electrical fault. Port Authority staff had begun the task of extinguishing the fire when the Fire Brigade arrived and completed the job. Fortunately nobody was hurt in the incident and other boats moored nearby were not affected either.

Road Death
A 31 year old British man died in a tragic accident last week. He was with a group of six friends who had hired three quad bikes and was riding pillion on one of them. The driver lost control of the vehicle and ploughed into a lamp post on the Avenida Sant Agustí road in Cala de Bou. He was attended by a doctor at the scene, but had sustained severe head injuries and died as the result of a heart attack; the rider was also injured and suffered a broken leg. It is thought that the cause of the accident was excessive speed, together with the speed humps which are installed along the length of this busy road. The rider of the bike proved negative when breathalysed after the incident.

Religious Fervour
A young student was arrested in Alcúdia in Mallorca last Thursday for threatening to blow up the hairdressing academy that he attended. He had German nationality but his roots were from Tunisia, and he had recently travelled to that country; but on his return, it was reported that his behaviour had changed radically, and he frequently intimidated people saying that he was going to kill everyone, because he was a good Muslim. During the past week his behaviour became increasingly violent, even attempting to hurt one of the supervisors with scissors which he held to her throat. He professed to be a missionary from Allah and his task was to kill all Spanish people, saying that his friends had bombs which they would use to cause mayhem. He also said that, as a good Muslim, he was prepared to die for the cause. He is known to have said "If I have to die, I will, but I will take many others with me".
He first came to the attention of the authorities in February, when he tried to run over a Local Police officer in Alcúdia and later threatened to kill him.

Robbery
The popular club, Privilege suffered a break in just hours after its opening party last week. According to sources close to the case thieves entered the premises at around midday on Sunday and took in the region of 100,000 euros from several safes in the building. Only part of the money taken was from the previous night, the rest was being kept to pay for general expenses over the next few weeks.

Sentence
Eleven British subjects were on trial in Palma last week in connection with a drug ring in San Antonio in 2009; they were sentenced to a total of thirty two years imprisonment between them. The leader, who controlled his empire from Britain, was handed the severest sentence of four-and-a-half years and ordered to pay a fine of 100,000€. He was in charge of the infrastructure and was responsible for renting properties and supplying vehicles for use by his gang members on the Island. They would transport the drugs by air from Manchester, using couriers, and the operation was first detected when one of the gang was interrogated on his arrival on the Island on the 8th of August and was found to be carrying two-and-a-half kilos of cocaine in his luggage. During the operation, code named Trafalgar, 20,000 ecstasy tablets were impounded, together with four kilos of cocaine and other designer drugs in raids on twelve properties.

By modern day standards Ibiza is an extremely safe place to holiday. This is a week’s worth of news and so its effect is magnified. Please do not fret while you are here – you are quite safe!!
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