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Dali perhaps the most exciting Surrealist. “It reveals his obsession with Freudian psychology as much as his obsession with his great lover and muse Gala,” said India Phillips, Global Head of Bonhams, in London, where the auction will take place on Thursday. Its most distinctive feature is a burning giraffe, likely linked to the Spanish Civil War, which was raging at the time it was painted. Currently, the auction record for a Dali piece is €15 million.
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A PAIR of Russian expats based in Spain have been linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The two men - believed to be brothers - may have been involved in the buying and selling of yachts both in Portugal and Spain. According to an investigator for Portuguese national TV, German police are ‘looking for these Russians’. Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who is leading the investigation for SMILING BOSS: Vittorio was Germany’s BKA, confirmed to RTP snared in Spain programme Sexta-as-9 that they may have been involved in the snatch of the British toddler from Praia See page 15 & 23 da Luz, on the Algarve in 2007. The sensational claim c o m e s after a t o
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AN original, off-the-wall painting by one of Spain’s most famous artists could fetch up to €11 million at auction this week. The diptych, in art lingo, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937) depicts the Catalan artist and his wife Gala as framed silhouettes with their heads full of storm clouds. “It is full of the highly personal imagery that made
HIS nickname means ‘Out of stock’, which is entirely appropriate for Italian Vittorio ‘Esaurito’ Raso. For the leader of one of Europe’s biggest crime gangs has been finally snared in Spain. The smiling boss of Italy’s notorious 30,000 strong Ndrangheta gang was picked up by cops in Barcelona at the weekend. Raso, 41, is a notorious cocaine-trafficker and long sought by European police. His arrest came after two years of intelligence, when cops swooped on his home in his upmarket neighborhood of Diagonal Mar.
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The leader of the infamous Ndrangheta - the main rival to Sicily’s mafia, based in Calabria since the 19th century - was preparing to flee on a ship bound for Brazil. Cops in Italy meanwhile detained many of his gang, seizing weapons, drugs and €360,000 in cash. The arrest of Raso marks a coup for the authorities, who long suspected the mafia kingpin had been hiding out in Fuengirola. His gang allegedly turns over €43 billion a year from people smuggling, prostitution, drugs and extortion. This would make it Italy’s fourth biggest company.
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former friend of key suspect Christian Brueckner revealed he had been grilled about the Russian pair last year. German, Manfred Seyforth, told the programme detectives had brought up the pair in relation to a ‘murder case’. “Police visited me in 2019 and asked about a murder (Madeleine’s) and asked about two Russians in Spain and if I knew them. “They picked me up in Frankfurt and said it was a homicide case and then asked if I knew two Russians in Spain... two Russian brothers,” he said. The Olive Press can reveal the interview came in December just days after Seyforth had testified against Brueckner at the rape trial of American pensioner Diana Menkes. The German, who saw a series of videos of Brueckner raping and torturing women, helped to convict Brueckner of the attack on the 72-year-old, in Praia da Luz, in 2005. He told the court in Braunschweig,
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Germany, how two videos involving an older woman (although not Menkes) and a 15-year-old tied to a post - were kept at Brueckner’s Portugal LINKS: Nicole Fehlinger and Brueckner probed home. He said over Maddie he had found them after he had been asked to clear the Algarve. out the rented home in Praia da Luz, A Portuguese woman, who employed while Brueckner was locked up in pris- her as a babysitter, told the RTP proon in 2006 for petrol theft. The Rus- gramme she often talked about Russian connection has intensified after it sians as being her best clients. was revealed that Bruec- She said they were mostly involved in kner’s girlfriend at the the yacht industry in the area adding time, Nicole Fehlinger, that Fehlinger worked as a dancer at allegedly mixed with a the casino in Vilamoura and was also series of Russians while involved in ‘photoshoots’. working at a casino on The Olive Press first revealed in June how Fehlinger ran an operation for troubled teenagers on AUTHORISED THE SKY the Algarve from her home in DISTRIBUTORS Foral, 40 minutes inland from DOCTOR Praia da Luz. ALL AREAS COVERED FREE GIFT WORTH 199€ We revealed how Brueckner had been a regular visitor to her +200€ discount KEEP SQUATTERS OUT! 4G UNLIMITED rented home and how she had on new alarm installations!* INTERNET been paid thousands a month Special Anti “Okupas” Before 26th October IDEAL FOR for looking after the difficult alarm offer STREAMING TV German teens. English language We also reported how Fe24/7 monitor ALSO IPTV, Immediate Police hlinger had called in police SATELLITE TV Europe’s No.1 security company when one girl, 15, ran away for response *offer only through contact below two weeks and was eventually tel: (0034) 952 763 840 brought back by Brueckner, Call: +34 611 475 892 Call: +34 611 475 892
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