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San Javier will host the largest air festival of the year celebrating 40 years of the Eagle Patrol

The ‘Aire 25’ air event at FITUR 2025 was created by the Murcia City Council of San Javier to honour the Air and Space Army’s Eagle Patrol’s 40th anniversary. It will happen on June 14th and 15th. It is going to be the most important aviation event in Spain this year.
Last week, the Murcia Region booth at the FITUR 2025 megatourism fair in Madrid was the place where the “Aire 25” air festival was introduced. The festival will take place over the Mar Menor, in front of the beaches of the town of San Javier in Murcia. It was already known about this event in December, when Air General Francisco Braco, who is the JEMA (Chief of the Air Staff), spoke to the public.
The general said that this year is the 40th anniversary of the Águila aerobatic patrol. The patrol uses CASA (now Airbus Defence & Space) C-101 training jets to perform in Spain and at foreign events where Spain is represented. While AJEMA didn’t give us any more information at the time, the FITUR presentation has given us more information. It will be the “Aire 25” event, and it will happen on Saturday 14th and Sunday15th June.
At the San Javier air base, the C-101s are flown by experienced teacher pilots from the General Air Academy (AGA), which is part of the Air and Space Force and has been training future pilots since 1943. Other pilots from the Spanish Navy, the Civil Guard, and other countries also work at the base.
It’s been a practice for the council of Murcia and the AGA to get along well, which makes it easier to put on air festivals. In this regard, the city’s current mayor, José Miguel Luengo, said at FITUR, while the Patrulla Águila pilots were there: “This event, which will be the most important in Europe, will bring together international patrols in a way that has never been seen before.”
‘Air 25’ was last held in June 2018, to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the AGA. The event took place in the same location and included an open day at the base and a day of air shows off the coast of Murcia, which 300,000 people watched. The Air and Space Force thinks that up to 500,000 people could be at this year’s event. The institution’s social networks say that soon it will be known who else will be there besides the Águila, Aspa, and PAPEA (Air Force Acrobatic Parachute Patrol) teams.
More information can be found https://www.aire25.es/
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Hospitality and recreation establishments in Elche receive 36 infringement reports from local police

The Elche Local Police conducted an operation that involved inspecting thirteen hospitality and leisure outlets in various neighbourhoods, resulting in one arrest and 36 violations. The data was made public on Friday, 28th March, mainly as a reminder of the work that is being done. Councilman Juan de Dios Navarro gave the police top for their efforts.
According to local police inspector José Antonio Corrales, the majority of the infractions included drug usage and possession, including four for cocaine possession and seven for hashish, as well as improper company documentation. Additionally, there were two reports for disturbing the peace or disrespecting law enforcement, four for not following the minimum hygienic standards for food storage, one serious infraction for conducting the activity after hours and behind closed doors, and seven for irregularities found on the property, including improper documentation.
Additionally, officers found six infractions for permitting smoking in unapproved indoor locations, three for type “B” slot machine identification guide deficiencies, and one major infraction for emergency escape and door flaws. Additionally, a report was made about the selling of illegal tobacco at a pub, where 20 packets were confiscated and one individual was detained on court order and imprisoned.
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Visitor to Catral cemetery locked inside

As nightfall approached on one of these soggy spring days in March, a young man decided it would be a good idea to visit a cousin or acquaintance’s grave and take a walk through the cemetery. Because the cemetery still closes its (automatic) gates at six o’clock at this time of year, but without the winter gloom that may discourage anyone from going.
However, the door was locked when he attempted to exit. The visitor didn’t seem to want to spend any more time among the cemeteries, despite the cemetery’s reputation as a particularly tranquil spot. Unaware of the placard bearing the mobile phone number for anyone needing help, he dashed out the gate. It was all on camera.
Joaquín Lucas, the mayor of Catral, maintains that this occurrence is unrelated to the privatisation of the cemetery works and feels that management by an outside company is an efficient approach to provide this service in a municipal office. He went on to say that the young man who who was locked in is from the nearby municipality of Dolores rather than Catral.
The local police took to social media and atacked the man’s “reckless” behaviour. He has been named in connection with “criminal proceedings for a crime against another’s property.” Nonetheless, the business will be liable for any damages brought on by the damaged door anchors.
In addition to clarifying that the business employs two workers—a gravedigger and a labourer who maintains the communal areas and restrooms—the Councillor for Services, Daniel Escudero, reaffirmed that the automatic door is an option offered by the company itself.
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Five arrested in Alicante and Murcia for shoplifting

Five individuals involved in grocery theft have been taken into custody by the Guardia Civil. In the regions of Alicante and Murcia, the thieves were stealing in a number of locations for a well-known supermarket company. The things that were stolen are worth over 8,000 euros in total.
The investigation started after the retail chain representative filed a complaint. The pattern was consistent across all cases: three or four people went into the store, and one of them loaded up a cart with expensive things like canned goods, extra virgin olive oil, sausages, or alcoholic drinks. The last one hurried out of the grocery without paying, and another diverted the attention of the staff.
It was discovered that the same people were responsible for the crimes in multiple towns in Alicante and Murcia after examining the security footage from the impacted businesses. Since the suspects did not live in the residences where they were registered and lacked a stable address, it was very difficult to find them.
Shortly after committing another theft at a store in a suburban neighbourhood of Rojales (Alicante), officers caught two of the suspects off guard and took them into custody. Many of the stolen goods were found at that time and brought back to the impacted business.
The other three were later taken into custody in the cities of Almoradí (Alicante) and Guardamar del Segura. The majority of the pilfered items were sold on. Additionally, the two cars that were utilised in the crimes were taken.
Eleven thefts have been resolved as a consequence of the investigation conducted by the Novelda Civil Guard’s investigation section. The cities of Novelda, Torrevieja, Almoradí, Catral, and Rojales in Alicante as well as the municipalities of San Javier, Jumilla, San Pedro del Pinatar, Cartagena, Archena, and Caravaca de la Cruz in Murcia were the sites of these crimes.
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