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Edition 272
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Friday 20th May 2016
COUNTING THE COST T
orrevieja’s move to take waste collection and cleaning service under council control has hit a big hitch with mayor, José Manuel Dolón, admitting that the private contractor Acciona could still be in charge for months after their contract was scheduled to end on June 14th. The opposition Partido Popular in turn has slammed Dolón and accused him of cobbling up a private deal with Acciona which could end up costing millions of euros more in the short term as the council has no choice but to use them to keep services going. Dolón said that the whole
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process had to be put on hold because the necessary changes that the council has to make to its credit facilities to finalise the takeover of the waste services cannot be made in time. Dolón added that the moves over credit changes had started in January blaming the delay on
bureaucracy and council officials, but he gave no indication as to when everything will be finally put into place. Carmen Gómez of the Partido Popular, who ran the council until May last year, said that the mayor was a hypocrite having previously accused Acciona of being
corrupt, but now being prepared to do an uncontracted deal with them to keep services going. The Informacion newspaper reported that since Acciona will be paid on a monthly basis and not on a long term contract, the cost during the peak summer period could be over one and a half million euros a month, with payments not being spread out over a twelve month period as is currently the case on the annual 19 million euro bill. Gómez added that she wanted to know more about she described as a “secret” deal and what it would actually cost the authority.
PET RAVAGES OWNER
Belgian shepherd dog called Rocky mauled his 70year-old owner to death outside his house in Beniaján a few kilometres out of Murcia City last Saturday night. A neighbour, Abu Faye, reported that the Rocky had bitten his owner, Juan Sánchez, before and had behaved aggressively to passers-by on a number of occasions. Faye called the police when he heard shouting and screaming, and when he went
out to see what was going on.
He spotted Juan Sánchez
being repeatedly bitten, including across his throat. A neighbour was quoted as saying that the owner "loved the dog very much and went for a walk with him every evening". The National Police and local officers arrived at the scene and took Rocky away in a cage. Reports suggest that the dog had been with his owner for 15 years. Experts saw that the Belgian shepherd breed is not regarded as being aggressive.
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