Two pit bulls ate owner's dead body in caravan in Mallorca

Two purebred pit bull terrier dogs, locked inside a mobile home on the island of Mallorca, ate the body of their owner after he died of natural causes. 

Authorities believe the dogs ate the man's remains due to hunger, or that thirst may have caused them to need to drink his bodily fluids.

According to an autopsy run on the 65-year-old German man, named only as Jürgen G., he had apparently been dead for several weeks.  It it not sure how long after his death the dogs, who could not get out of the caravan, ate his remains in an attempt to survive.

One of the dogs had passed away, while the second was very upset and had to be immobilized and taken away by specialists.

They were found together with the man's body on Monday this week, locked in the caravan which was parked near a sewage plant in Ses Salines, Mallorca. The remains were found by a friend of the dead man, who was concerned that he had not been able to contact him for some time and who then contacted Spain's Civil Guard.


Spanish sources:

La Vanguardia
Diario de Mallorca

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Spain hit by two possible Ebola cases

Two people have been admitted to hospital this week with fears that they may be infected with the very contagious Ebola virus.  One is a 13-year-old boy in Mallorca and the other a 24-year-old man in the region of Murcia.  Both apparently flew into Spain in the last three weeks from Lagos in Nigeria.

Both patients are suffering symptoms similar to Ebola, including muscle pain and high temperatures, and are both are being kept in secure units under isolation, which have the necessary infrastructure to deal with highly infectious diseases.

The 13-year-old was taken to the Hospital Son Llàtzer, in Palma de Mallorca in the Balearic Islands, and the 24-year-old was hospitalized at the Hospital de Son Espases. In the meantime, blood samples from both patients have been sent to laboratories in Madrid, where scientists will be able to ascertain whether the two people are actually infected with Ebola.

Reuters is reporting that so far this year, approximately 2,300 people have died in what is the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded.  While Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the worst affected countries, the disease is also spreading to Senegal and Nigeria as sick travelers carry the infection.

Update:

In a later update, it was confirmed that the 13-year-old boy is not suffering from the highly infectious disease.  Also the child was also not infected with malaria, according to doctors.

At present, the 24-year-old Nigerian man remains in isolation.

Sources:

Diario de Mallorca

La Razon

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Former tennis ace Boris Becker loses villa in Mallorca, Spain

German former tennis ace and six-time Grand Slam champion, Boris Becker, has apparently just lost out on his luxury holiday villa on the island of Mallorca in the Spanish Balearic Islands.

Becker had apparently neglected to pay a construction bill of €391,000 ($544,000) and the Spanish authorities confiscated the home.

According to a judge in Palma, the nine-bedroom property will now be auctioned off for a tidy €7 million ($9,750,993). The construction bill in question was apparently for carpentry and plumbing work, as well as for resurfacing a basketball court at the villa.

Becker’s lawyer is trying to claim that the bills were the responsibility of the real estate agent who sold him the villa, but the judge is having none of that. Reportedly Becker, 46, bought the villa 17 years ago.

Becker almost lost the villa over a similar case back in 2012, where around €276,162 ($384,780) was owed to a local gardening and landscaping company. In that case, Becker managed to scrape together the amount owing and keep the home.

Apparently back in 2007, Becker tried to sell the house for €15 million ($21 million) but didn't manage to find a buyer.

Reportedly Becker's economic problems arose due to a €24 million ($33 million) divorce case.  With the latest case, should he wish to keep the villa, he would also be required to cough up an additional €24,000 ($33,441) in court fees and interest.  To the source

Former tennis ace Boris Becker loses villa in Mallorca, Spain

German former tennis ace and six-time Grand Slam champion, Boris Becker, has apparently just lost out on his luxury holiday villa on the island of Mallorca in the Spanish Balearic Islands.

Becker had apparently neglected to pay a construction bill of €391,000 ($544,000) and the Spanish authorities confiscated the home.

According to a judge in Palma, the nine-bedroom property will now be auctioned off for a tidy €7 million ($9,750,993). The construction bill in question was apparently for carpentry and plumbing work, as well as for resurfacing a basketball court at the villa.

Becker’s lawyer is trying to claim that the bills were the responsibility of the real estate agent who sold him the villa, but the judge is having none of that. Reportedly Becker, 46, bought the villa 17 years ago.

Becker almost lost the villa over a similar case back in 2012, where around €276,162 ($384,780) was owed to a local gardening and landscaping company. In that case, Becker managed to scrape together the amount owing and keep the home.

Apparently back in 2007, Becker tried to sell the house for €15 million ($21 million) but didn't manage to find a buyer.

Reportedly Becker's economic problems arose due to a €24 million ($33 million) divorce case.

With the latest case, should he wish to keep the villa, he would also be required to cough up an additional €24,000 ($33,441) in court fees and interest.

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German Hells Angels raided by Spanish police in Mallorca

In what has been described as a major blow to Mallorca's powerful German mafia, Spanish police have raided the Mallorcan chapter of the Hell's Angels Motorbike Club and made several arrests, including Frank Hanebuth, president of the Hannover chapter.

 

"Operation Casablanca" is a combined effort by 200 Spanish National Police and Civil Guard officers, working in conjunction with Interpol, Europol and Eurojust.

 

As part of this operation, 25 arrests have been made in a total of 31 raids on the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain.

These raids included the arrest of 49-year-old German Frank Armin Hanebuth, president of the Hannover chapter and one of the most important Hells Angels figures in Europe. 

Hanebuth is considered by German police to be one of Germany's most dangerous men and was found to be living in a villa in Lloret de Vistalegre on the island.

 

Local newspaper Diario de Mallorca reports that one local police officer was also apparently arrested in raids, capping off a three-year investigation.

The operation targeted alleged extortion, money laundering, drug trafficking, as well as the running of prostitution rings by the Mallorca chapter of the notorious motorbike club.

Reportedly most of the club's members moved to Mallorca from Germany in 2009, when authorities in that country cracked down on the group.n total 25 people were detained and among items seized in the latest raid were a cropped shotgun, older weapons, detonating pistols, a revolver, a pistol, an electric defense weapon, 10 cars, four high-end motorcycles, close to €50,000 in cash, as well as many jewels and drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and anabolic steroids.

Among other things, as part of their prostitution business on Mallorca the group was said to have systematically performed cosmetic surgery on prostitutes.

According to ABC, this was done "to make the product more attractive." These operations were apparently run by the Youssafi brothers, who allegedly 'captured' women, through women already working for them.

The prostitutes were only apparently given a day off when they had earned a specific sum for their "work." 

Several Hells Angels members who were arrested on Tuesday were also wanted for homicide and kidnapping in Germany. Wikipedia describes The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) as "a worldwide "one-percenter" motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles and is considered an organized crime syndicate by the US Department of Justice." 

The club is said to have its origins in California after the Second World War and the group is said to have from 2,000 to 2,500 members worldwide.



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Video game inspires 19-year-old to kill his millionaire dad

After suffering "constant humiliation" from the treatment of his father, the 19-year-old son ended the 57-year-old man's life using a spiked bat, similar to that used in a video game he had been playing.

Last Friday, after confessing to the cold-blooded murder of 57-year-old Andreu Coll Bennássar, Andreu Coll Tur together with his friend and accomplice, 20-year-old Francisco Abas Rodriguez, have been remanded in custody by a Spanish judge on Mallorca, without bail.

According to El Mundo, the murder of Andreu Coll senior took place on the night of June 29 in the small Mallorcan municipality of Alaró.

Coll junior and Abas admitted to having first drugged Coll senior, before bludgeoning him to death with a medieval-style spiked bat, a hammer, a vase and a music speaker.

Reportedly they first cleaned up the blood and fingerprints with bleach, and then drove in the victim's Land Rover to nearby Bunyola to get rid of the body.

They had wanted to make the attack look like a robbery, and had removed Coll senior's rings and Rolex watch before dumping the body.

The two men attended the victim's funeral as normal. However, the Civil Guard arrested them soon after, as infrared tests showed them to be the real killers. 

The two young men had met online a year and a half earlier, while playing the video game "Call of Duty." 

The lawyer for Abas said that his client fell in love with Coll junior, after they spent time together in Mallorca and Zaragoza. He said that his client "regretted taking part in the murder but had done it for love." 

Both men were obsessed with violent video games and spent up to 12 hours a day playing them. Police believe that the spiked bat used by the men in the murder was based on a similar weapon seen in the video game "Dead Rising 2." 

While Coll junior had told the judge that he murdered his father due to his constant humiliation, he is also heir to a €50 million fortune. Spanish media is speculating that money may also have been a motive in the murder. 

A nondisclosure order has been dictated by the Regional High Court in the Balearic Islands while the trial continues. According to the Majorca Daily Bulletin, the two young men are both on suicide watch and in separate cells.

To the source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/354582

Brit dies from fall from 10th floor in Mallorca, Spain

According to local media, police in Mallorca are investigating the death of a 35-year-old British man who died after falling from the tenth floor of a building in the popular resort area of Magalluf on Tuesday.

Photo by: Rafael Ortega Díaz

The local newspaper, Diario de Mallorca reported that initially police thought the man had been murdered.

The man died after falling ten stories and landing on a car, parked in front of 5 Magalluf Avenue.  A local, out walking his dog, found the man's body at six o'clock on Tuesday morning.

The man, so far identified only by the initials D.L.K. was found wearing only a swimming costume and flip flops.

Further investigations on the scene revealed no signs of violence, and his injuries were consistent with his fall, according to police, who are now trying to determine if the man's death was a suicide or accident.

According to sources at the British Embassy in Madrid, they are aware of the death of a British citizen in Magalluf and consular services in Mallorca are providing support to the family of the man.

Mallorca police nab 'radical' hairdresser as suspected terrorist

A German national of Tunisian descent was arrested on Thursday after claiming he had been sent by Allah to "kill all the Spanish." The alleged terrorist was arrested in Alcúdia, Mallorca, and charged with a number of crimes.

 

The "radical" hairdresser apparently also said that he had "terrorist friends who could plant bombs" and added: "I don't mind dying; if I have to die, I'll die, but I'll take plenty of others with me."

 

According to an official report from the Baleares Civil Guard, the accused was a student of a well-known hairdressing academy in Palma, the capital of the island of Mallorca. 

 

The report said that, "He became radicalized in the last year after making a trip to his country of origin," and further pointed out that he had made "constant threats of death and references to being a Muslim."

 

The report also stated that he had said that, "Soon the Muslims will be the kings of the world."

 

The suspect was arrested previously, on February 15th, for trying to attack a local policeman. He apparently followed the police officer's vehicle, attempting to crash into it, and then threatened to kill the officer.

 

During the past week, he is said to have threatened to "blow up the hairdressing academy and kill everyone" and to kill one of the center's administrators, while holding scissors to her neck. 

 

When police officers searched the man's apartment, they discovered a Samurai sword, documents in Arabic about the forgiveness of sins and also material considered by the police to show "signs or evidence of family tensions or changes in behavior, withdrawal and social polarization". 

 

There were also reportedly self-help books for low self-esteem. 

 

All of the evidence, together with constant references to his radical religious ideology, have resulted in his arrest. The man is accused of crimes of threatening agents of authority, attempted homicide with aggravating circumstances of acting for reasons of discrimination, relating to ideology, religion, beliefs or the nation. 

 

The image above shows the Samurai sword and other personal effects found in the home of the suspected terroris.

To the source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/352351