Organised street begging
As in every town and city in the world Benidorm has its share of street beggars, some are genuine, many are not but organised groups.
NEWS UPDATES from Alicante 14th October 2020 Barcala recovers Sonia Castedo's begging and prostitution ordinance with harsher fines.
Five years after the Alicante tripartite repealed the municipal ordinance of begging and prostitution for having a "sanctioning and non-preventive vision", the bipartisan led by Luis Barcala has begun processing to recover a document promoted by the government of Sonia Castedo in 2011. However, with more items and harsher fines.
The ordinance pursues from "coercive, intrusive or aggressive begging" to "offering and demanding sexual services" or "services or products, persistently or intimidatingly", as well as "camping on public roads"
The bipartisan PP and Cs ensures that it seeks to "preserve public spaces, promote better coexistence and greater civics, as well as act against illegal and coercive begging".
Some parties from the left, (PSOE, Unidas Podemos and Compromís) yesterday criticized Barcala's government for retrieving a text which, in its view, "punishes the most vulnerable groups".
SOME OF THE VIOLATIONS CONTAINED IN THE NEW ORDINANCE
Serious and very serious offences: from begging
Conduct that, under the appearance of begging or in an organized manner, represents coercive attitudes or harassment or intentionally impedes the free transit of citizens through public spaces (from 750.01 to 1,500 euros). When exercised directly or indirectly with the accompaniment of minors or persons with functional diversity (from 1,500.01 to 3,000 euros).
Minor violations: from using fonts to selling items
Carrying out activities that obstruct traffic, endanger the safety of people or manifestly impede the free transit of people (up to 750 euros).
Camping on the roads and public spaces of the city, an action that also includes stable installation in public spaces of tents, stalls, mattresses, vehicles, motorhomes or caravans, except authorizations for specific places (up to 750 euros).
Offering services or products, persistently or intimidatingly, provided that they have not been demanded by the user (up to 500 euros).
Organised street begging 27-09-2019
The Municipal Group of Citizens (Cs) has alerted to a possible increase in organized begging and the existence of homeless people on the streets of Benidorm
Cs spokesman, Juan Balastegui, explained that "on the Avenida Mediterraneo, we can see the same people doing different shifts on a daily basis, without anyone doing anything about it." Likewise, the councilor has indicated that "we found people begging on other public roads which are heavy with pedestrian traffic." In addition, he pointed out that " in the center there are more and more people sleeping outdoors, they do it every day in the same place surrounded by household goods."
Begging in the streets of Benidorm photo by David Revenga
The leader of Citizens has reproached that " the draft of the civic code promoted by Cs to stop this, as well as street prostitution and drunken tourism, rests forgotten in a drawer without the PP showing interest in finalizing it."
The councillor has claimed to act at least based on the Criminal Code. "Article 232 imposes prison sentences for those who use persons with disabilities in need of special protection for the practice of begging, even if it is concealed."
Finally, the spokesman recalled that "the draft of the civic ordinance seeks to protect people who are in Benidorm against behaviors that adopt forms of insistent, intrusive or aggressive begging, as well as organized, whether direct or covert." He also specified that "in those cases of behaviors that adopt forms of begging that have social roots, the agents of the authority will contact the social services."
The news article above has been translated from Spanish to English so some detail may be slightly lost in translation read the original story at www.diarioinformacion.com
This story with quotes taken from Benidorm Seriously Facebook group made news headlines back in the UK
ILL-GOTTEN GAINS Benidorm´s infamous crippled beggar, see walking perfectly healthily with a bag of cash amid claims that he drives a Mercedes. The beggar is said to make hundreds from soft-touch tourists by moving painfully slowly along the pavement using a crutch and cup.
This photo shows him off duty
It was reported back in 2014 -
Street beggars are being controlled by mafia in Benidorm, they are taken by van to strategist points in the town where they spend most of their day begging. Social Welfare stated that,40% of those begging in the municipality are related to the mafia.
According to the Benidorm City Hall, only 27% of the beggars have accepted help from Social Services.
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Earthquakes (Un Terremoto in Spanish) in the Valencia region - Earth tremors are not that unusual in our area, and most are minor and nothing to worry about and are just part of the natural way energy is released, caused by the fact that beneath the Mediterranean there are vast tectonic plates which are in constant motion. This coastline was once attached to Africa and there are a series of fault lines right along the Murcia, Almeria and Alicante coastline, these are the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.
The south of Alicante is an area of strong tectonic activity and the last tremor of medium intensity occurred on March 24th, 2019 off the coast of Cape Palos (Murcia), where the IGN recorded a 4.3 on the seismic scale of Richter.
The southeast of the peninsula is the region with the highest seismic risk.
What is an Earthquake?
An earthquake is an intense shaking of Earth’s surface. The shaking is caused by movements in Earth’s outermost layer.
Why Do Earthquakes Happen?
Although the Earth looks very solid from the surface, it’s actually very active just below the surface. The Earth is made of four basic layers: a solid crust, a hot, nearly solid mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.
The solid crust and top, stiff layer of the mantle make up a region called the lithosphere. The lithosphere isn’t a continuous piece that wraps around the whole Earth like an eggshell. It’s actually made up of giant puzzle pieces called tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are constantly shifting as they drift around on the viscous, or slowly flowing, mantle layer below.
This non-stop movement causes stress on Earth’s crust. When the stresses get too large, it leads to cracks called faults. When tectonic plates move, it also causes movements at the faults. An earthquake is the sudden movement of Earth’s crust at a fault line.
How are Earthquakes measured?
The energy from an earthquake travels through Earth in vibrations called seismic waves. Scientists can measure these seismic waves on instruments called seismometer. A seismometer detects seismic waves below the instrument and records them as a series of zig-zags.
Scientists can determine the time, location and intensity of an earthquake from the information recorded by a seismometer. This record also provides information about the rocks the seismic waves travelled through.
Are there volcanoes of the Valencian Community? Yes we have 2, both classed as dormant
The most spectacular of those we have in the Valencian territory is perhaps the Cofrentes Volcano,located in the Cerro de Agrás,500 meters high. This volcano was the subject of research in the mid-seventies, due to the upcoming construction of the Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant. Studies show that the crater experienced its last activity about 2 million years ago. However, in its depths there is still some activity, which some nearby spas take advantage of, through its thermal waters.
Crater of the Cofrentes volcano.
The other volcano in our territory, and the youngest, is located in the Columbretes Islands (Castellón). These islands are known to be of volcanic origin. Several studies suggest that this area had volcanic activity only 300,000 years ago. Specifically in one of the Islands that form this small archipelago off the coast of Castellón, in the so-called Illa Grossa.
For a volcano to be considered active it must have undergone an eruption in the last 10,000 years
Earthquakes in the Valencia region
During the 19th century several earthquakes in the Valencia region caused serious damage and casualties. The most notable was the Torrevieja earthquake on March 21st in 1829, which completely destroyed the town and caused serious damage in Guardamar, Almoradí and Orihuela with hundreds of fatalities. This earthquake reached a magnitude of 6.6 (measured on the scale used at the time) and resulted in 389 dead and 377 wounded.
February 2021 - The national earthquake institute has just finished fitting the latest generation detectors in Guardamar del Segura and Elche, which work in real time, and will enable scientists to measure any increase in activity quicker.
Recent earthquakes in the Valencia Region 2024
6th April - Small earthquake registered in Hondón de las Nieves (El Fondó de les Neus) in the province of Alicante at 21:16. Magnitude 2.3 at a depth of 7 kilometers
Recent earthquakes in the Valencia Region 2023
19th November - On Sunday morning at 07.38hrs, an earthquake was registered at 1.6, on the Richter scale, 40km off the coast between Benidorm and Calpe, at a depth of 5km.
7th October - An earthquake of 2.4 on the Richter scale was registered at 11.33, with its epicentre at 15 km of depth, and off the town of La Vilajoyosa.
4th September - Three earthquakes in the space of just 11 hours in our province of Alicante. Two were registered in the early hours of Monday at the Sierra de Crevillent and Hondón de las Nieves, which registered at 2.9 and 2.0 on the Richter scale respectively. The third tremor was on Monday morning at 10.57, with its epicentre to the north east of Santa Pola, with a depth of 15 km, and an intensity of 1.7 on the Richter scale. Despite its relatively low strength it was quite widely felt in the area.
15th August - At 09.33 an earthquake of 1.7 on the Richter scale was recorded, with its epicentre off the coast between Benidorm and L'Alfàs del Pi.
This earthquake is the first to occur this year on the coast of the Marina Baixa. In 2022 only one was recorded, on August 6th off the coast of La Vila Joiosa of 1.5 degrees of magnitude.
30th July - The National Geographic Institute has released details of an earthquake that occured, in the early hours of Sunday morning, with its epicentre inland of Villajoyosa. The tremor registered 3.9 on the Richter scale, had its centre 2Km below the earths surface, and was felt across a wide area. No injuries or damage was reported, but several calls were made to emergency ervices, and people "felt the earth move" in places as far apart as Banyeres de Mariola, Alcoy, Cocentaina, El Campello, Santa Vicent del Raspeig, Alicante, Elda, and Benidorm.
28th March - Yet another small earthquake was registered at 06.55, off the coast of Torrevieja and Guardamar. The quake with an intensity of 1.8 on the Richter scale had an epicentre 9Km below the seabed.
9th March - Recorded on the coast between NE Calp and Moraira, between Cala Llobella and Cala Baladrar, next to the CV-746 road, at 21:44. The epicentre was located 6 km deep.
24th March - Three small earthquakes were registered yesterday in the same area, just off the coast in front of Torrevieja. The first was registered at 09.00, and the last at 23.48, with this last one registering at 3.0 on the Richter scale. The quakes were felt in the towns of Torrevieja, Guardamar, Orihuela Costa, Los Montesinos and Rojales, as well as being noted in some areas of the Baixa Vinalopó, such as Elche.
3rd to 6th March - The town of IBI, which is situated inland of Benidorm is pretty much "earthquake central" at the moment....A "nest" of seven earthquakes (as they describe it in Spanish) were registered between Friday and Monday. They were all between 1.5 and 1.8 on the Richter scale.
27th February - The municipality of San Fulgencio, Vega Baja region, registered seismic movement measuring 2.1 on the Richter scale. The earthquake occurred at 21:52 in an area between the Oasis urbanization and the Los Azahares de Dolores industrial estate, with the epicenter located 10km deep.
23rd February - Recorded at 23:55, 88Km off the coast between Alicante and Santa Pola, registering 1.8 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 18km.
31st January - We started the month with an earthquake, and we have also ended it with one. Guardamar del Segura registers an earthquake of 1.6 magnitude. The earthquake occurred at 00:34 hours, located in the coastal area between the municipality of Guardamar del Segura and Cabo Cervera, in the municipality of Torrevieja.
19th January - Registered at 05.38, measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was 80km from the coast of the municipality of Santa Pola and about 10 kilometers deep.
15th January - Crevillent, measuring 2.2 degrees with epicenter in Crevillent. The seismic movement occurred 2km deep, at 12.28 in the Taibilla channel area, near the Sierra de Crevillent and the national road 340, reports Rafa Jover.
7th January - Just off the coast of Alicante, no information available.
1st January - Recorded on New Years day, at 09.41, with its epicentre at Alcoy, (Inland from Benidorm). The tremor registered at 1.9 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 12Km.
Recent earthquakes in the Valencia Region 2022
20th December - Registered at 01.18, measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale, in the municipality of San Miguel de Salinas (region of Vega Baja), near the La Pedrera reservoir and the CV-925 road, the epicenter was 6 km deep.
This seismic movement, greater than 1.5 degrees, is the second that occurs in the municipality of San Miguel de Salinas and the fourteenth in the Vega Baja region so far this year; while the province of Alicante already has 62 earthquakes in 2022.
22nd November - An earthquake was registered at Los Montesinos, (Torrevieja) right in the Chaparral urbanization at 1.30, registering 2.2 on the Richter scale. no damage was caused according to Emergency services.
22nd September - An earthquake occurred in Guardamar del Segura at 08.15 this morning, registering 2.6 on the Richter scale, the epicentre was recorded just southwest of Guardamar. No damage has been reported.
29th August - The province of Alicante has registered three earthquakes, in less than 24 hours. All three were in the areas of l'Alcoià and el Alto Vinalopó, in the interior of our province. The three quakes came relatively close to each other, in time and also situation...With the first the strongest at 3.0 on the Richter scale, which is the strongest of the year, not just in our province, but also our region.
20th July - A small earthquake was registered yesterday at 10.17, with the epicentre just off the coast of Alicante, 20km from the coast. The quake of registered 1.8 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 1 km.
22nd June - Wednesday afternoon at 14.21 saw an earthquake of 2.1 on the Richter scale registered in the area of Gata de Gorgos, in an area north of Benidorm and inland of Javea. The epicentre was registered 30 kilometres deep, very close to the urban area and near Carrer Sant Josep.
This is the third earthquake that has occured this year in the region of Marina Alta, after the two registered on March 8 in El Verger and Els Poblets.
14th March - Santa Pola Area, recorded at 05:06 and registered 1.8 on the Richter scale and was located 19 kilometres from the coast off Cape Santa Pola, northeast of the island of Tabarca.
8th/9th March Two earth tremors with 13 minutes between them were registered in the early hours of Tuesday night/Wednesday morning in the area of the Marina Alta, They had their epicentres in El Verger and in Els Poblets.
The first measured 1.7 degrees magnitude on the Richter scale, occurred at 01:58 in the municipality of El Verger, 10 kilometres deep.
The second earthquake, of 1.8 degrees of magnitude, was registered at 02:11 in the municipality of Els Poblets, also 10 kilometres deep.
24th January 2022 - Santa Pola area, (just south of Alicante city). The quake measured 1.8 on the Richter scale had its epicentre between the island of Tabarca and the mainland at Santa Pola and was recorded at 14.22, 7km deep.
This is the seventh earthquake registered this January, in the province of Alicante, counting those registered in Salinas (Alto Vinalopó), Crevillent (Baix Vinalopó) and Planes (El Comtat) and the two of Tibi (L ́Alcoià) and two of Santa Pola.
News and updates on Danny Tetley
Danny admitted seven charges of causing sexual exploitation of boys aged between 14 and 16, as well as two counts relating to the distribution of indecent images, he was jailed for nine years as part of a 17-year extended sentence including eight years of close monitoring on licence after his release.
But now his sentence has been slashed following a successful appeal.
At the High Court, Lady Justice Simler said Tetley's original sentence was too lengthy for his crimes.
Upon leaving prison he will be monitored on licence - put in place by judges to protect the public from serious harm - for just five years instead of eight.
The Criminal Appeal Office said: "The full court allowed the appeal and the sentence is now an extended sentence of 14 years (not 17), comprising a custodial term of nine years and an extended period of licence of five years."
Danny Tetley, Updates
28th October 2020
Danny Tetley has had his 17-year sentence for sexually exploiting seven teenagers slashed for being 'too long'.
24th January 2020 -Danny Tetley sentenced to 9 years for child sex offences
The jail term is nine years, which forms part of a 17-year extended sentence, meaning Tetley will be closely-monitored on licence for eight years after being released from the nine-year jail term.
Tetley never met any of the teens – aged 14 to 16 – but engaged in “highly sexualised chat” with them as he attempted to convince them to send naked pictures for up to £1,000-a-time.
He told one boy “the more on show, the better the price” as he hounded him for pictures.
When he was arrested, he tried worming his way out by claiming his Facebook was hacked and told cops he couldn’t cope with his X Factor fame.
An NSPCC spokesman said: “Tetley’s use of his TV appearances and promises of money in the thousands of messages he sent these boys, are an example of the depraved lengths that predators will go to in their pursuit of victims.
“This kind of abuse can have a profound and long-lasting impact, and this case underlines why it is so vital that social media companies are forced to make safeguarding our children their top priority. We continue to call on the Government to introduce new legislation that enforces a formal Duty of Care to keep young people safe online.
“As part of the NSPCC’s Wild West Web campaign, we are calling on people to email their MP urging them to back a new Bill that paves the way for a proper independent watchdog to regulate online harms against children.” Visit www.nspcc.org.uk/what-you-can-do
Children can contact Childline 24/7 on 0800 1111. Adults concerned about the wellbeing of a child can phone the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 8005000.
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Danny Tetley, Updates
13th December - Danny Tetley admits child sexual exploitation of seven teenage boys
Danny Tetley has this lunchtime (Fri) pleaded guilty to a series of child sexual exploitation charges relating to him inducing teenage boys to send indecent images to him for money.
The 39-year-old’s court case was previously subject to a court order preventing publication of his previous guilty pleas to similar offending, but today the Recorder of Bradford Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC lifted the restriction after the singer admitted five more allegations
Tetley, of St Enoch’s Road, Bradford, was brought from custody to the city’s crown court and formally entered his guilty pleas to five charges of causing sexual exploitation of a child relating to five teenage boys aged 15 and 16.
None of the complainants in the case can be identified for legal reasons.
The charges he admitted today cover a period between October 2018 and August this year.
Some of the charges faced by Tetley include allegations that he tried to induce two boys to send him indecent images which would be in the most serious category for such offences.
Barrister Andrew Dallas, for Tetley, asked for the sentence to be adjourned so that the defence had time to consider “well over 10,000” text messages or WhatsApp messages which had been served.
Judge Durham Hall fixed the sentence hearing for January 24 next year and said the case would go ahead on that day barring an exceptional problem.
Tetley, who appeared in the dock wearing a black short-sleeve t-shirt and pale blue jeans, was remanded back into custody until next month.
Story provided by Examiner Live. Full story HERE
30th October - Bradford Crown Court
Danny made his first live appearance at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday afternoon, charged with multiple sex offences against children, he sat in the dock wearing a shiny grey-patterned jacket and a dark green round-necked shirt.
No pleas were entered during the short hearing and the case was adjourned until December 12th, as requested by both the defence and the prosecution.
Danny has been remanded into custody, at the end of the hearing the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said: “Thank you Mr Tetley, will you kindly go with the dock officer?”
Danny Tetley, Updates
27th September - 1st Court appearance
Danny Tetley made his first appearance at Bradford Crown Court after being charged with a string of child sex offences. All charges (listed below), relate to offences which allegedly took place this year.
Danny listened to the court proceedings via a video link from HM Prison Leeds, where he is currently being held on remand, he was said to be wearing grey prison-issue clothing, and spoke only to confirm his name.
No charges on the indictment were read out to him, but it was indicated that he will be asked to make a plea during his next appearance to be held on Wednesday, October 30th.
30th August – Danny Tetley in Custody
There is an article in at least one of the British Newspapers, claiming that Danny Tetley has been in Magistrates court today facing a total of 11 charges. The article claims “He was charged with: engaging in sexual communication with a child; four counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; five counts of inciting the sexual exploitation of a child; four counts of possessing indecent images of children, and one count of committing an act to or attempt to pervert the course of justice”.
He is accused of making 27 category A indecent images of a child, 129 category B images and 129 category C images of children.
He has apparently been remanded in custody to appear at Bradford Crown Court on September 27th.
He has strenuously denied the offences and previously said: 'I'm an innocent man. I'm without a doubt being set up.
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During the summer of 2016 complaints from British tourists for alleged food poisoning in Benidorm grew alarmingly.
The amount of money lost by the hotel sector during two years was calculated at over 50 million euros as the number of claims skyrocketed to 500%
However, in 2018 the first sentences including fines and prison sentences were give out and this seems to have stopped the practice of false claims over the past year.
This is confirmed by the tourism sector who claim that "it is water under the bridge." That is to say, since the British courts began to take away the reason for these claims ie larger amounts of money, claims of this type are hardly registered in tour operators or hotels when only two years ago they were almost the order of the day. " This year we have not had one, the subject has relaxed a lot ," confirm one of the agencies.
And it is that the penalties imposed by the British courts that ranged from about 800 euros of fines and three months in prison issued to four members of a family from Liverpool for filing a false claim against the tour operator Jet2Holidays, with whom they had booked their holidays in Benidorm during the summer of 2015; Liverpool High Court sentenced each one of them to three months in prison and fined them £750 (€842) for “concocting a fake claim for gastric illness to win compensation. In another case 15,000 pounds fine was issued on two more British tourists who had to pay TUI for faking food poisoning during their stay in Benidorm trying to get the chain to compensate them.
In each case they claimed that they had suffered nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea and vomiting for days and even presented medical reports. But publication on social networks showed in one of the cases photographs of the family enjoying their holiday as if nothing was wrong, this ended with a sentence against them and paying a hefty fine. The judge also also reproached them for not complaining during their stay, since the claims were filed in May 2016, approximately eight months after their vacation ended. That is, they remembered later that they had been sick on their holidays in Benidorm.
But it is not only the courts that have ended the making of false claims. The British Government also took action on the matter of these false complaints, now it would be the executive who would set the maximum amounts that each tourist can claim for a disease contracted during their holidays abroad;
Legal costs for package holiday sickness cases will be fixed under new rules aimed at deterring false claims.
Similar controls are in place for other personal injury claims, but they will now be extended to cases when holidaymakers seek compensation.
The travel industry says claims have mushroomed in recent years despite illness in resorts declining.
The government asked the Civil Procedure Rule Committee, which is responsible for setting rules on legal costs, to consider bringing package holiday claims under the same rules as personal injury claims
If the compensation amount was not so high, they might not want to file false complaints. At that time, British law did not establish any control over these amounts, so they could go to exorbitant amounts. In fact, some of the tourists who denounced a few years ago requested up to 50,000 euros of compensation after allegedly having suffered a poisoning in a hotel in Benidorm, something that was dismissed by the judge. But the tourists were not alone. At that time, companies and law firms specialized in these types of complaints known as “claim farmers” appeared and even traveled to tourist cities making money out of these false claims.
Even the UK Gov warn people against making fraudulent claims -
"There have been reports of an increase in holidaymakers being encouraged to submit a claim for personal injury if they have experienced gastric illness during their stay. You should only consider pursuing a complaint or claim if you have genuinely suffered from injury or illness. If you make a false or fraudulent claim, you may face legal proceedings in the UK or Spain".
Here in Span the hotel employer Hosbec placed a year ago the average of claims at 5,000 pounds, a figure that allowed tourists to recover the money invested in the trip. Since the first cases began to jump in 2016, hoteliers began to denounce this practice among tourists and Hosbec led a common front with hoteliers from other areas of the country to force the British Government to react, the promises of this change in legislation came to try to curb these false claims for poisonings.
So it seems that a year after the first convictions, British tourists no longer see these claims as a way to recover the money from their trip.
You should take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance before you travel. For information on the European Health Insurance Card EHIC
Missing Persons - Luis Daniel Rodríguez Meyerhoffer, aged 51 Missing since June 8th 2021
A desperate appeal for citizen collaboration to obtain any clues to find his whereabouts. Luis Daniel Rodríguez Meyerhoffer, known by many in the Marina Baixa with the nickname Luigi, disappeared in the early morning of June 8th in La Nucía. Since then, neither family nor friends have heard from him.
He is 51 years old, a recognized degree of disability of 37% and needs to take medication for various health problems. He is of thin build, measures 1.75 meters in height, has blue eyes and short brown hair. He wears glasses and has a disability in his right hand and arm, as well as a degree of intellectual disability, aggravated after suffering two strokes and a heart attack. When he disappeared, he was driving a white Toyota Yaris car, with license plate 6472KFY, and was wearing blue jeans, a white short-sleeved shirt and blue sneakers.
Missing Persons
Alfonso Rodriguez, the father of the disappeared, has asked through for help to find the whereabouts of his son, providing any information or information that allow to advance the investigation that has opened the Civil Guard of Altea. As explained by the parent, Luis left the early morning of June 8th from his home, located in an urbanization between Benidorm and La Nucía, and took his mobile phone which stopped working at about 1.30 p.m. that day, probably when it ran out of battery, and since then no new connection has been recorded. There have also been no bank movements in his account, the father adds.
Apparently, the investigations carried out by the Civil Guard have discovered, thanks to the recordings of different traffic and road control cameras, that Luigi's vehicle transited through different locations of the Community since shortly after his disappearance. The track is lost in Aspe, after noon on June 8th, since which time there has been no trace of the car he was driving when he was last seen.
Luis needs to take different medications for the conditions he suffers and that he did not take with him when he left home. His father does not explain what could have happened and, although he recognizes that the prospects are not too good, he requests that anyone who could have seen his son or could provide any clue contact the Civil Guard barracks in Altea 965 840 525 or 965 840 052 or call his family's contact numbers: 366875141 or 616967494. "We need to find him and know what has happened to him," concludes Alfonso, broken with pain by the situation he is experiencing.
This article has been translated from Spanish to English, so some detail may be lost in this translation, read the original article here.
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