ISSUE NO. 1352
2 - 8 JUNE 2011
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E.coli scare costs farmers millions Hamburg (Germany) decimated fruit and vegetable exports. German authorities initially pointed to organic cucumbers imported from Almeria and Malaga. Shortly after Spain was ‘cleared’ on Tuesday, the Junta de JENNIFER LEIGHFIELD
ANTONIO LABAO, the manager of Algarrobo farming co-operative Frunet, will travel to Germany to hold a press conference tomorrow to ‘save its image’. Farmers in Andalucia are reporting multi-million-euro losses after the E.coli outbreak in
The Spanish Legion take part in the march-past.
Military on parade FIFTY THOUSAND people attended the Armed Forces Day held in Malaga last weekend. Among them were King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Asturias. • Armed Forces Day page 3
Andalucia’s President Antonio Griñan demanded that the European Union compensate Spanish farmers for the economic impact caused since the outbreak began. “They don’t want anything,” one Almeria farmer said, referring to EU buyers. “They don’t want aubergines, courgettes, peppers, melons or watermelons.” In the five days that followed the outbreak, widespread media reports of ‘killer Spanish cucumbers’ saw orders throughout the province and elsewhere in Andalucia cancelled. Countries which removed Spanish-grown cucumbers from sale included Germany, Russia, Czech Republic, France, Austria, Belgium and Holland. Even after Hamburg’s Health Minister Cornelia Prüfer-Storcks reported on Tuesday that analysis of the cucumbers in question revealed they were not the cause of the outbreak, news continued to appear on the internet to suggest the contrary. According to Labao, the lab results in Hamburg prove what his company was saying: that the source of the infection was not in Spain. Labao said the co-operative is seeking legal advice to establish the viability of claiming compensation from the German government.
NEWS EXTRA
Sexual assault A TOW-TRUCK driver will face trial for sexual assault for allegedly touching the bottom of a woman whose car broke down in Rincon de la Victoria in January 2010.
Gun threat POLICE have arrested a 26-year-old man for threatening a taxi driver in Velez Malaga with a gun, stealing his money and the taxi, and abandoning the driver on an industrial estate.
Not so safe MALAGA Public Prosecutor has accused four people of not providing adequate safety measures for the construction of 115 homes in Rincon de la Victoria in 2006, exposing workers to dangerous conditions.
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