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Why do drug traffickers use Benidorm as their destination?

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Despite its benefits and drawbacks, tourism is the lifeblood of Benidorm. The metropolis of towers is brought down to earth by the crime statistics, which contrast with the thriving visitor and occupancy numbers year after year.

In addition to being a popular vacation spot and second home for many of foreigners, Benidorm has become a hub for prostitution, bachelor parties, intoxicated tourism, and partying. Drugs are an integral part of the city’s nightlife.

With 3.4% fewer crimes in 2024 than in 2023, the city’s crime statistics improved. With a 6.2% increase, drug trafficking is still the country’s worst unresolved problem, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

One drug trafficking crime occurs for every 437 residents in Benidorm, the municipality most impacted by the province as a whole. This is a concerning statistic that is significantly higher than the territory’s average.

The city has turned into a haven for drug traffickers, who always find a market for their narcotics in strategic locations where neon lights are a common sight for shoppers.

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The municipality with the highest frequency of this offence relative to its population is Benidorm, which leads the pack with 2.29 instances per 1,000 residents.

Because drug traffickers constantly find a market for their narcotics at strategic spots where neon lights are a familiar sight for shoppers, the city has become a haven for them.

With 2.29 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, Benidorm is the municipality with the highest prevalence of this infraction in relation to its population.

In order to recruit new customers and set up meetings with buyers at the locations where the drug and money transactions occurred, the criminal organisation exploited its positive relationships with staff members of hospitality facilities.

The user turns to the drugs if they don’t end up on the streets. Authorities battling the distribution of illicit narcotics also face difficulties because of drug dens.

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The police actions to remove these drug stores tucked up among lodgings for tourists serve as evidence of this. In one of the most recent operations, two drug apartments where cocaine was being trafficked were shut down in September 2024. The three individuals involved were arrested, and nearly two and a half kilogrammes of drugs and 21,000 euros were seized, even though they attempted to dispose of 10,000 euros and some of the drug by throwing it off the balcony.

Its enormous floating population is essential to understanding drug trafficking since it skews various statistics about its 75,000 registered citizens.

According to the town’s analysis of tourist flows, which focusses on 2023, the average monthly number of visitors to Benidorm is over 252,000, and in August, that number climbs to over 2.1 million, which is twice the yearly average.

“We can also know that on the busiest day of the summer, which in 2023 was August 12th, the city could reach a peak of just over 365,000 people, including residents and floating population,” the report states.

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Firefighters in Torrevieja commemorate the day of their patron saint

Torrevieja Fire Station

The Torrevieja Fire Station’s amenities they celebrated San Juan de Dios Day, the patron saint of firemen, which is observed annually around March 8th. Family members and public representatives from the Torrevieja City Council were invited to participate in a variety of events.

In the morning, trucks, drones, and a canine search unit were used in rescue demonstrations. Additionally, the Provincial Fire Department sent out a chopper.

In addition, a lunch with paella and stew with meatballs was served, and tributes were given to a number of professional firefighters who have worked in this park, one of the most significant in the Provincial Consortium.

Public representatives from the Torrevieja City Council, including Mayor Eduardo Dolón and Councillor for Security Federico Alarcón, attended these open days for family members.


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Two businessmen who allegedly defrauded friends and coworkers out of almost 400,000 euros are facing prison

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Today, Monday March 10th, a couple of businessmen are on trial in the Second Section of the Alicante Provincial Court for allegedly committing a number of scams involving hundreds of thousands of euros through fictitious real estate investments.

The two owners of an investment-focused company, a man and a woman, are accused of defrauding two people in two different transactions, and the prosecution is asking for a six-year prison sentence for the ongoing crime of fraud.

According to the prosecution’s brief, in January 2017, they persuaded a man who had been the accused’s boyhood friend to invest about 300,000 pounds in their business in exchange for a house in Pego that the business would purchase for him.

The prosecution claims that the victim never received the money back and that the business did not make the purchase. Additionally, they persuaded her company’s administrative assistant to lend them 70,000 euros in May of that year, which the business would repay with interest after a year. She therefore insists that they told her in September that she was fired because the business was closing. The victim never got her money back.


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Italian TikToker wanted for drug offences in Alicante and Tenerife

Antonio Gemignani, a Neapolitan TikToker who goes by Papusciello on social media, is being sought by Italian authorities for drug-related offences. Since Tenerife and Alicante are the last locations from which he wrote on his social media, the authorities are searching for this Neapolitan national in various regions of Spain.

The Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor’s Office (south) conducted an operation last Thursday to destroy dozens of drug sales locations between the cities of Naples and Salerno, affecting 51 people, including Gemingnani.

The judge mandated that 15 of them be placed in preventive detention in prison, 17 were placed under house arrest, and 19 were had to report to the police station daily in order to stay in their town.

According to local media reports, Gemignani, a 47-year-old TikToker known as Papusciello, has more than 150,000 followers for his comedic videos. However, since the police operation, his whereabouts have been unknown.

He has, however, released a number of movies in recent days that appear to take place in various locations throughout Spain, such the town of Calpe in the province of Alicante or the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

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The videos have since been deleted and on Sunday his profile on the platform became “private”, that is, closed to the public.


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