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Friday 19th January 2018
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TEENS IN PORN SWOOP
16-year-old boy from Elche and a 16-year-old Ecuadorian living in the San Javier area, have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in a big operation across Spain against the distribution of child pornography via a dozen WhatsApp groups. Nineteen arrests have been made across 14 Spanish provinces, with the operation being coordinated by the Orihuela court after a complaint was made by a woman from the Vega Baja region who has now been given the status of a protected witness. The obscene files were distributed via the WhatsApp groups that had thousands of members, many of whom live in South America. As past of the investiga-
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tion, a Guardia officer posed as a user of the groups to gather information about the distributors and users of the child pornography. Details of the operation
were revealed this week after raids took place at 20 addresses last week, including Elche and San Javier, with a large amount of mobile phones, hard drives,
memory cards, and USB devices seized. All of those detained have already appeared in court and have been granted bail ahead of trial.
PENCILLING A DATE
rihuela mayor Emilio Bascuñana has said that he wants the Emergency Centre at La Zenia to be completed and operational by June 2019, as well as pressing for improvements to the CV-95 link from Orihuela City to the coast. Bascuñana (pictured second-left), along with Orihuela councillors and officials, met Valencia regional government officials in Valencia City, with both sides agreeing that it was an urgent priority to advertise the tender for the unfinished Centre building to be completed. The mayor said that it was crucial for the work to be put out of tender as soon as
possible, and to be completed before June 2019, because the project would lose European Union funding. As previously reported, the Valencia administration will pump in two point two million euros to finish the project which was abandoned in 2012 when the original contractor went bust Bascuñana also met with Valencia’s Public Works director general, Carlos Domingo, to press for improvements to the CV-95 highway, with local businessmen long pressing for the link between Orihuela and Torrevieja to be upgraded to a dual carriageway to quicken up the journey time.
Domingo told the mayor that various studies were to be conducted over any possible improvements to the road, but did give him the
news that six new roundabouts were to be erected on the CV-95 to improve safety. No details of locations were given.
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