BANG TO WRITES

SIX letter bombs sent to targets in Spain late last year were posted by a Russian white supremacist militant group, according to US and European officials. Bombs were addressed to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, as well as to the US and Ukraine embassies, and the Defence Ministry. They were also sent to Instalaza, a weapons maker in Zaragoza that manufactures grenade launchers that Spain is giving to Ukraine, and another went to the Torrejon de Ardoz air base in the Madrid region. One person at the Ukraine embassy was slightly hurt.

Stubbed out

THREE clandestine cigarette factories have been busted, with products with a retail value of €37.5 million seized. Some 27 people have been arrested including the ring-leaders who led a ‘luxurious’ lifestyle in the Marbella and Sevilla areas on the back of laundering the profits. The gang employed 10 Ukrainian refugees who lived in the factories. Police seized 10 tons of tobacco and 3.5 million packets of cigarettes from premises in Alfaro (La Rioja), Enquera (Valencia) and Los Corrales (Sevilla).

SHE has lived through two world wars, a bloody civil war, the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed millions and even pulled through unscathed when she caught Covid. Now Maria Branyas Morera has taken the title of the oldest living person at the ripe age of 115.

Maria, who lives in Catalunya, has inherited the accolade

Revenge is a dish best served hot for Shakira...but beware of your supercool ex

WHEN the Spanish tabloids’ golden couple Gerard Pique and Shakira split up, it seemed that everything was being settled amicably.

The Colombian songstress released a song, Monoto ny, whose lyrics and video conveyed heartbreak. But barely two months later, the dominant emotion in new track Session 53 is undiluted vengeance.

She takes aim at the ex Bar celona and Spain footballer and his new girlfriend Clara Chia and lets fly with both barrels.

The devastating lyrics include lines such as: ‘I was out of your league, that’s why you’re with someone just like you.’

And she follows up with ‘You left me with your mum as a neighbour, the press at my door and a debt with Hacienda’.

The latter is a reference to Shakira’s ongoing