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Two Brits found dead in a house in San Fulgencio

A British man and woman, aged 82 and 74, were found dead in a house in the municipality of San Fulgencio (Alicante) on Thursday. There were no signs of violence, according to sources close to the probe. The first probes to find out what happened with the deaths have been led by the Territorial Team of the Judicial Police of the Guardia Civil in Almoradí.

Both were found by a Red Cross team at noon in a house in the La Marina housing area, which is mostly made up of British people. As part of an agreement with the town hall of San Fulgencio, they had been keeping an eye on them for a few weeks. The agreement, called the Municipal Comprehensive Emergency System (SIREM), is meant to help old people who live alone in this town in the far south of Alicante.

Sources say that they are not a married couple but rather friends who lived together and had medical problems, which is why social services were taking care of them while they were waiting for their identities to be confirmed.

A Red Cross spokeswoman told EFE that when the organisation visited this couple on January 18, they found that the man had fallen and needed help getting up. They also learnt that they both lived with a dog and had symptoms of long-term illnesses and trouble moving around.

The situation was reported to the city’s social services, which stepped up their tracking along with the humanitarian organisation. The monitoring continued until this Thursday, when two members of a health team that does social work went to the house but were met with silence when they knocked on the door.

A partially open window caught their attention, and when they looked inside, they saw feet on the floor. Following the action plan, they called the San Fulgencio local police and the fire department to come and check out the house.
A forensic evaluation will be done.

When they got inside, they saw one of the bodies on the floor and the other on one of the beds. The case was given to the Civil Guard of the nearby town of Guardamar del Segura until the people in charge of the Orihuela court on duty could take the bodies away.

The bodies of the two people who died have been taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Alicante so that, in the next few hours, a forensic test can be done to find out how they died and confirm their identities.

People think that San Fulgencio is one of the medium-sized towns in Spain with the most British residents because, out of a population of about 10,000, there are about 3,000 English people living there and only 2,800 Spanish people. This is mostly because of La Marina and Oasis, another nearby macro-urbanization.

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21 expensive cars that were stolen in the U.S. were found Valencia port

Together with the US Container Security Initiative, the Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency found 21 high-end cars that were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to Africa in the port of Valencia. The cars, which were worth a total of €1.1 million, were reported stolen and were being moved in containers.

The cars were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to different places in Africa, stopping in Valencia’s port. Risk analysis units made up of Guardia Civil and Tax Agency officers were able to find several packages that might not have had the goods that were claimed to have been inside.

With the help of the information gathered, it was confirmed that stolen cars that had been in Valencia on their way to the United States had actually arrived. The groups that ship stolen cars either traded legally declared cars for stolen ones or directly declared the stolen cars as other goods, like furniture or mattresses.

In the past few weeks, 21 vehicles have been found and will be sent back to their home countries to be given to their original owners.

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14 immigrants were saved on a boat 45 miles off the coast of Alicante

On Wednesday, 2nd April, the Maritime Rescue ship Salvamar Leo saved 14 immigrants who were travelling in a boat about 45 miles from Alicante.

In the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday, Maritime Rescue sent out its Helimer 223 helicopter and the Salvamar Leo, which is based in Alicante, to save the people on a small boat.

Their journey began on the Salvamar Leo, which took them to the Temporary Assistance Centre for Foreigners in the port of Alicante. There, the Red Cross took care of them.

The Red Cross says that all of the refugees they saved were men, and two of them were younger than 15 years old. They were all healthy after being treated.

The National Police took over the refugees after getting help from the Red Cross. They are now trying to find the boat’s captain so they can arrest him, as is normal in these situations.

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Dénia wrestler arrested in connection with a network that smuggled 300 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador

The National Police’s Drugs and Organised Crime Unit arrested a famous mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter from Dénia. He was part of a gang that was partly broken up in August over a shipment of 300 kg of cocaine from Ecuador that came into the port of Valencia. The fighter from Dénia is one of five people who were caught by police. Along with nine other gang members who were already in jail at the time, they are now in jail.

The man who was arrested in Dénia is thought to be the trusted man of the gang’s leader, who is also an MMA fighter, and the person who is said to have worked as a go-between in the operation.

Levante-EMV also says that the broken-down network is linked to another shipment of 490 kg of cocaine that came into the port of Valencia in April of last year.

The five people who were just caught went before Valencia’s Investigative Court No. 20 yesterday, April 3rd.