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A MAN stabbed his girlfriend five times in a Guardamar del Segura street before he ran in front of a taxi as he tried to avoid being arrested by the Guardia Civil.
The boyfriend confronted her for unknown reasons in the street outside a pharmacy.
and started to walk down to the village.
“However, others told us they had a lot of stuff and were about to have lunch. We were understanding and gave them plenty of time to eat,” the officer explained.
He added that one group refused to leave the ‘sacred fire’, refusing to leave and acted ‘belligerently’ leading to two arrests.
They claimed that since its creation in Oregon in the 1970s, the group had only been evicted once, in Austria, 40 years ago. According to Wikipedia, the Rainbow Family is a ‘counter-culture group, which is a loose affiliation of individuals, some nomadic, generally asserting that it has no leader’. They put on yearly, primitive camping events on public land known as ‘Rainbow Gatherings’. Its stated goal is attempting to ‘achieve peace and love on Earth’.
The 32-year-old victim suffered a series of knife wounds including one to her chest and as pharmacy employees helped her, the man, 42, ran off pursued by the Guardia Civil. The chase ended when he was knocked over by a taxi and like his partner, he was taken to Torrevieja Hospital with various injuries.
Brits busted
A BRITISH drug trafficking gang operating out of the Vega Baja that exported marijuana to Ireland has been busted. Two properties in San Miguel de Salinas and the Orihuela Costa were raided, resulting in the detention of three British men and a Romanian woman, aged between 23 and 33 years. The Guardia operation was launched in February after more than two kilos of marijuana destined for Ireland in two postal packages were intercepted at Madrid airport. Another shipment was stopped leaving the airport and the Guardia identified the British ringleader as responsible for trying to send the packet. This led to a surveillance operation with evidence of narcotics trafficking leading to the raids.
