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The Mínguez Pier is being built in Torrevieja

The Torrevieja Port Board met yesterday at the offices of the Ports of the Generalitat Valenciana. Marc García, who is the Director General of Coasts, Ports, and Airports, was there, as well as Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, and Agustina Esteve, who is the representative of the Consell in Alicante. All the groups and businesses in the city’s port, like the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja (RCNT), the marinas of Marina Internacional and Marina Salinas, the Fishermen’s Guild, the Torrevieja salt flats, the tourist apartments of Marina Internacional, the dry dock, and the company that runs the Leisure Centre in the port of Torrevieja, were there.

The Director General of Ports said that the Torrevieja City Council has the right permissions to improve the Mínguez Dock, so the work has already begun. Additionally, the main electrical work on the port area will soon begin, along with the planned redevelopment of Paseo La Libertad and the areas around it. On March 1, the hippie huts will be taken down and moved to the Vía Verde, where they will be set up and will be open to the public during Easter.

Marc García said that the Port of Torrevieja and the Port of Denia are the two most important in the Valencian Community. He also said that the concessionaire company of the Leisure Centre and the Torrevieja council are investing more than 100 million euros right now.

At the same time, the government of Valencia is working on getting a global contract for the work in the area around Eras de la Sal and for the work to reorganise and improve the front of the port. This piece of land will be ready in March. The City Council needs this global concession in order to begin building the new theatre at Eras de la Sal. The building will be located in the old dry dock at the Marina Internacional sports port.

Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, said that the Government team wants the 2026 International Habaneras and Polyphony Competition to take place in this new area at the Eras de la Sal.

Another thing that was talked about this morning at the Port Roundtable with the Marina Salinas, Marina Internacional, and RCNT nautical clubs and ports’ officials was the concession extension that they need to keep doing their work. The length of the extension will rest on the investments that these ports make, which have already been shown to the Director General of Ports.

Enrique Riquelme, who is in charge of the concessionaire company running the Leisure Centre at the port of Torrevieja, said that the underground parking garage with 640 spaces will open in March. This will happen at the same time as the opening of the road from Avenida de La Libertad to the Levante Dock. Also, Riquelme said that the Leisure Centre will be opened in July, after all of the work on it has been finished.

Finally, Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, said that the path for pedestrians that will connect the Levante Dock to the upper part of the Leisure Centre might be finished in June 2025.

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Elche mother sentenced to 19 years for the murder of her son and the abuse of her twins

A woman has been sentenced to a total of 19 years and seven and a half months in prison by the Jury Court of the Seventh Section of the Alicante Court, which is located in Elche. She was convicted of murdering her two-year-old son in Bigastro by suffocation after having routinely abused him, as she had done with her other sons.

The Court, which upheld the jury’s verdict, convicted her of one count of murder, another count of habitual abuse, and six counts of bodily harm. The Court considered the aggravating circumstance of kinship and the mitigating circumstances of confession, undue delay, and acting under the influence of drugs.

The convicted woman is required to pay €100,000 in compensation to each of the deceased’s two brothers, as well as an additional €10,000 to the deceased’s twin, for the injuries and after-effects he experienced as a result of the incident.

A house in the town of Bigastro was the residence of the mother and her children, who were two-year-old twins and a nine-year-old girl at the time, as indicated by the statement of proven facts in the sentence. The convicted woman struck the twins with a variety of objects on the head, torso, or extremities and shook them on at least six occasions, resulting in multiple fractures.

On June 11th, 2022, the woman returned from the park with the two children and, after putting one of them to bed, grabbed the other by the neck and squeezed him until he perished by strangulation, the attacks continued repeatedly, establishing a climate of peaceful disruption.

The jury determined that the defendant’s psychological state was exacerbated by her drug use since the age of 20, which had a detrimental impact on her willpower at the time of the homicide. The prosecution and defence concurred with the Prosecutor’s Office during the oral hearing, while the defendant acknowledged the facts. The Alicante Court’s sentence is not definitive and may be appealed to the Civil and Criminal Division of the TSJCV.

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A second runway at Alicante-Elche Airport has been rejected by the government

As per a parliamentary response to PP senator Agustín Almodóbar, the Government has disregarded the long-awaited second runway for the Miguel Hernández airport in Alicante-Elche, at least for the next few years. Almodóbar emphasised that the airport has experienced a surge in traffic of over two million travellers in a single year.

“Do you not believe that it would be necessary, given the increasing demand, and that the investment would be more than justified, as has been long demanded by Alicante institutions and society?” The Popular Party leader enquired, characterising the work that Pedro Sánchez’s administration had planned as “insufficient”.

Nevertheless, the Upper House’s response is unequivocal: “Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport currently possesses modern, secure facilities, as well as competitive pricing and an adequate capacity to satisfy air traffic demand and ensure the mobility of its residents.”

The government contends that the “airport manager” already conducts “planning” in accordance with “operational needs and expected traffic demand”, and AENA predicts “future behaviour” in the “sizing” of these infrastructures.

At present, the project is anticipated to encompass “adaptation of the terminal and traffic areas”, as stated in the technical description of the works that were tendered in January of last year. This is part of the first segment of Asistencia Técnica de Redacción de Proyecto (Technical Assistance for Project Draughting,) which is valued at €19.8 million.

In contrast, the second runway is “envisioned as the airport’s ultimate expansion in the current Master Plan and will be constructed only when it is deemed necessary to satisfy the anticipated demand, as determined by technical criteria.”

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Police prevent three squatters from taking over an Alicante home

According to sources from the City Council, three squatters were apprehended after the intervention of officers from the Sant Vicent del Raspeig (Alicante) Local Police and the Guardia Civil prevented them from invading a residence.

On Saturday March 15th, the Benemérita requested the municipal security force’s intervention in response to an alleged attempt by multiple suspects to occupy the property.

The main post had been previously contacted to report an additional purported illegal entry on Velázquez Street.

The Guardia Civil assisted the local police officers in the arrest after they made several arrangements with the householder. The police arrived immediately. The suspects were transported to the headquarters of the State Security Forces.