Sunday 21 August 2011

The deranged Turkish teen who butchered best friends Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore had planned their murders for days.



Recep ‘Alex' Cetin, 17, wanted the lifelong pals out of the way so he could marry Marion's|15-year-old daughter Shannon and get his hands on her mum's apartment.

And full details of how Cetin carried out the barbaric killings and how he tried to avoid being caught were revealed by police sources last night.

They said Kathy Dinsmore ran away screaming after Cetin slashed her friend’s Marion’s throat but the teen chased her down and knifed her.

After cutting his victim's throats Cetin changed his clothes and rang police from a callbox claiming his victims had been involved in a fight at their apartment complex in the sunshine Kusadasi resort.

Detectives spent hours investigating his lies that were designed to explain Marion and Kathy's disappearance.

At this stage they were totally unaware that the mutilated bodies of the Co Down women lay buried in undergrowth in an Izmir forest 60

90 British property owners attended meetings with the British Consul Paul Rodwell and British Embassy’s Adviser, Alexandra Brown last week to discuss the illegality of their homes.

90 British property owners attended meetings with the British Consul Paul Rodwell and British Embassy’s Adviser, Alexandra Brown last week to discuss the illegality of their homes.
British property owners in Valle del Sol, Murcia and Lliber, north Costa Blanca, attended the meeting to express their frustration and dissatisfaction that there had been no advances in their efforts to solve the worrying situation over the illegality of their homes.
Paul Rodwell and Alexandra Brown vowed to meet with the newly elected local authorities in the area to raise the concerns and distress of the many British property owners in the areas awaiting a solution and last Friday after meeting with the local representatives of British property owners in Llíber, Paul Rodwell arranged a meeting with local mayor José Juan Reus to which representatives of British residents were invited.
The Mayor explained the progress being made and asked local residents to contact the town hall with as much information as possible on their individual cases. The President of AULN, Adrian Hobbs said: “We were delighted that Paul and Alexandra were able to visit Llíber and continue to take an active interest in our situation regarding the illegal housing situation, the meeting with the Town’s Mayor was assisted by their presence and helped enforce our message of urgency to those responsible for finding the solution.”
The President of the Asociación Valle del Sol, Lee Monks said: “The meeting was a great success - Paul has a great interest in all our individual stories of the situation we are facing in this area - and he proved this to everyone there at the meeting.”
A statement from the British Consul said, “Many British property owners in Valencia and Murcia are awaiting a solution to the serious problems with their homes which are causing them much distress and anxiety.
As representatives of a foreign government, we cannot interfere in any matters relating to Spanish domestic legislation nor intervene in individual cases but we take every opportunity to engage Spanish authorities to take action to resolve these issues. The Ambassador and Ministers have raised property issues with Ministers in Spain and regional governments on numerous occasions. “

Thursday 18 August 2011

59 immigrants have been arrested from three patera small boats off the coast of Almería

59 immigrants have been arrested from three patera small boats off the coast of Almería. All of them are reported to be Moroccan males and all are in good health.

The Guardia Civil is looking for the 27 occupants of a fourth boat which reached the shore. It’s thought that there were several children among that group.
The Guardia Civil has been using a support helicopter in the operation.

Meanwhile the Guardia Civil have arrested 11 immigrants, all Algerian makes who came ashore on Monday night on the playa de los Muertos in Carboneras.

Since last Sunday eight immigrant boats and a total of 147 people have been intercepted on the coasts of Spain, in the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Granada and Murcia, as well as the city of Melilla. The number includes four babies and 17 women, seven of whom are pregnant.

Sor Teresita, who has been in the convent for 84 years, is to meet Benedict XVI in Madrid on Friday

Spanish nun, Sor Teresita, is to come out of her cloistered convent to meet the Pope during his visit to Madrid for World Youth Day on Friday.

The 103 year old nun, who is 104 next month, has seen outside world only once in 84 years, during the Spanish Civil War. She entered the convent on the same day that the Pope was born, April 16 1927.

With 84 of her 103 years spent inside the Convento de Beunafuente del Sistal, in Guadalajara, she is the nun to have spent most time hidden from the world.

The Mother Superior, Madre María, says the 103 year old has said that she plans to keep her eyes closed during the whole journey so that nothing distracts her.

The nun recently told the author Jesús García that she was happy with her life, and revealed that it was her father, a farmer, who encouraged her and her sister to take up the habit, perhaps as a way of escaping the poverty of the time.

 

Heatwave to remain in Spain until Sunday

The Spanish Meteorological Agency AEMET has put half of Spain on alert for high temperatures, and warns that this Saturday will be the hottest day.

Today, Wednesday, temperatures will be two or three degrees higher than what it was yesterday in Aragón, Cataluña and in the north of the Valencia region. Thermometers will show round 40 degrees in the centre and south of the mainland, and weather alerts are in place for more than 25 provinces.

Thursday will see increased activity from storms in the centre of the mainland. They will be disperse and not that big, but they will serve to freshen the atmosphere. It could rain in the NE on Thursday.

Friday will see temperatures similar to Thursday and an occasional storm in the northern third and eastern half of the country.

Saturday will be the hottest day with values back to where they were on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the northern third of the country particularly warm. The southern third of the country will reach 39 or 40 degrees and the centre of the country will also get as high as 39. Storms could form in the NW.

Temperatures will finally start to fall on Sunday.

 

Spanish footballers are on strike

There will be no first round of the new Spanish league this weekend as talks today, Wednesday, between the league and the players association failed to reach any agreement on the wage round.

It means that all first and second division games are off, and meetings will continue in forthcoming days to try and avoid the same result on the second day of the league.
Reports from the talks indicate the two sides are as far apart as ever.

The President of the Professional Football League, José Luis Astiazarán, commented after the meeting,
‘We have not reached any agreement. The AFE has upped the stakes, the differences are important, but we have to continue trying to advance. We cannot give more than we have’.

The dispute has arisen because the AFE wants the LFP to create a ‘wage guarantee fund’ which would cover payments of 50 million € owed to first and second division players, and also wants to see clubs which have not paid their players to be sanctioned.

Some players across the country have accumulated long delays in wages being paid, and the AFE claims it is being supported by players unions in countries such as Germany, Italy, Portugal, France and Holland. They say that last season ended with 50 million owed to more than 200 players.

The LFP says that they want players to workout days they play for the National team as holiday time, and for them to all hand over their personal image rights. They say the AFE claims are ‘incomprehensible’ especially as the strike call comes after two months of talks

 

British property owners in Valle del Sol, in the Region of Murcia, and Llíber, in the north of Alicante province, met with British Consul, Paul Rodwell,

British property owners in Valle del Sol, in the Region of Murcia, and Llíber, in the north of Alicante province, met with British Consul, Paul Rodwell, and the British Embassy’s Adviser, Alexandra Brown on Thursday and Friday of last week respectively.

Over 90 British property owners in Valle del Sol attended the meeting showing their frustration and explained there had been no advances in their efforts to solve the worrying situation over the illegality of their homes.

Paul Rodwell and Alexandra Brown vowed to meet with the newly elected local authorities in the area to raise the concerns and distress of the many British property owners in the areas awaiting a solution.

The President of the Asociación Valle del Sol, Lee Monks said:
“The meeting was a great success - Paul has a great interest in all our individual stories of the situation we are facing in this area - and he proved this to everyone there at the meeting.”

On Friday, after meeting with the local representatives of British property owners in Llíber, Paul Rodwell arranged a meeting with local mayor José Juan Reus to which representatives of British residents were invited. The Mayor explained the progress being made and asked local residents to contact the town hall with as much information as possible on their individual cases.

The President of AULN, Adrian Hobbs said:
"We were delighted that Paul and Alexandra were able to visit Llíber and continue to take an active interest in our situation regarding the illegal housing situation, the meeting with the Town’s Mayor was assisted by their presence and helped enforce our message of urgency to those responsible for finding the solution".

The British Consul, Paul Rodwell said:
“Many British property owners in Valencia and Murcia are awaiting a solution to the serious problems with their homes which are causing them much distress and anxiety. As representatives of a foreign government, we cannot interfere in any matters relating to Spanish domestic legislation nor intervene in individual cases but we take every opportunity to engage Spanish authorities to take action to resolve these issues. The Ambassador and Ministers have raised property issues with Ministers in Spain and regional governments on numerous occasions. “

The British Embassy website ukinspain.fco.gov.uk provides information to signpost people with property problems to competent authorities and organisations as well as useful information for potential buyers.

The Embassy and the consulate network in Spain monitor the property issues affecting British nationals in the country and appreciate updates on any progress made. Updates should be sent to Alexandra Brown (Alexandra.Brown@fco.gov.uk).

Madrid judge has ruled that driving listening to music with one headphone in one ear is not an offence.



The judge in the Contentious-Administrative Court 3 in Madrid ruled that José Miguel Ayllón Camacho need not pay the 150 € fine which he was issued by the Tráfico Guardia Civil in February last year when he was driving on the A-6 Madrid to A Coruña road.
The Guardia said that it was a ‘falta grave’ listening to music with a headphone connected to the radio.

However the judge has considered that the driver did not break the article 65.4f of the Royal Decree 339/1900 traffic legislation which says the use of headphones or other objects which diminish the required permanent attention needed for driving, is a serious infraction.

The judge considered wearing one headphone need not be a distraction, and that according to the legislation the radio itself could be regarded as a distraction, and yet they are installed in cars as standard. He said reasonable interpretation of the law meant that both headphones needed to be worn for the offence to be valid.

The State Attorney, who was in court, called on the judge to leave the fine in place but the judge noted that the driver had asked the Guardia to note on the fine that only one headphone had been used. The judge’s decision cannot be appealed as the fine involved is less than 18,000 €.

Monday 15 August 2011

Tourists flock to Morocco for sun, sea, surgery

Long famed as a tourist destination for its sunny beaches, exotic cuisine and historic sites, Morocco is now offering foreign visitors another attraction: plastic surgery clinics.

Only a short flight from Europe, the North African country is attracting growing numbers of foreign visitors looking to take advantage of lower prices for everything from face-lifts and nose jobs to tummy tucks and penis enlargements.

For clients like Marcela, a 31-year-old Spanish mother of three, Morocco offered the chance for a surgery that would have cost much more at home.

"We can get help to look after our children here and the surgery is much cheaper than in Spain. We also think that this clinic is one of the best," she said as she had her final consultation with her surgeon at a clinic in Rabat before getting abdominoplasty, better known as a tummy tuck.

Marcela said she chose Morocco, a country she had previously visited as a tourist, because the price of the operation here was only about $3,500 - three times less than in her native Spain.

In an industry known for lax regulation, Marcela said she preferred to see the clinic and check its standards before booking the surgery. "We wanted to visit the clinic first to see if we liked it," she said.

Everything appeared to have gone well and four days later Marcela had recovered enough from the surgery to be out for a walk on the beach with her family.

Morocco has a history of plastic surgery dating from the early 1950s and in recent years the country has become, along with North African neighbour Tunisia, an increasingly favourite destination for procedures, Salaheddine Slaoui, a specialist in cosmetic and reparative surgery, told AFP.

"At the time when sex change operations were banned in Europe, they were practised here," the surgeon said.

"The demand for cosmetic surgery in Morocco is actually growing steadily. There are about 1,000 to 1,200 cosmetic surgeries per month in Morocco, and 10 to 15 per cent of patients came from abroad," Slaoui said, adding that the number of plastic surgeries had also doubled in the last decade.

 

44 Africans crammed into inflatable dinghy intercepted in Mediterranean

THE Moroccan navy today intercepted 44 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who were heading for Spain in an inflatable dinghy, local immigration officials said.

The migrants, aged 20 to 40 and from various sub-Saharan countries, were picked up off Al Hoceima in the north Mediterranean.

The group was to be handed over to police before being expelled to Algeria, where migrants stop over before arriving in Morocco, the Moroccan immigration authorities said.

The highly risky flow of refugees across the Mediterranean from Africa is surging due to war and famine - with most of the boat people bound initially for Spain and Italy.

According to the Catholic aid group Sant'Egidio, at least 1820 migrants from north Africa, most originally from south of the Sahara, have drowned this year in the sea in their bid to reach Europe.

Since the start of the year, more than 11,000 Africans fleeing conflicts in north Africa have landed in southern Italy, in increasing numbers since NATO air raids on Libya began in mid-March and the weather improved.

Some 2000 migrants from north Africa arrived on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa this weekend, ANSA news agency reported today. In south-western Sardinia two boats carrying 45 men, one woman and two children landed overnight on Saturday (local time).

 

Amid Rise of Multiculturalism, Dutch Confront Their Questions of Identity

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who admitted to mass killings last month, was obsessed with Islam and had high praise for the Netherlands, an important test case in the resurgence of the anti-immigrant right in northern Europe.
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The sometimes violent European backlash against Islam and its challenge to national values can be said to have started here, in a country born from Europe’s religious wars. After a decade of growing public anger, an aggressively anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim politician, Geert Wilders, leads the third-largest party, which keeps the government in power.

In Slotervaart, a majority immigrant neighborhood in southwestern Amsterdam, Maria Kuhlman and her friends watched Muslim families stroll by on a Ramadan afternoon, some of the men in robes and beards, the women wearing headscarves. A large blond woman shouted, “Go Wilders!”

Mr. Wilders’ Freedom Party, which combines racist language with calls for more social spending, won 15.5 percent of the vote in June 2010. He was recently acquitted of charges of hate speech for comparing the Koran to “Mein Kampf” and calling mosques “palaces of hatred.” He wants all immigrants and their children deported and warns of the supposed Muslim plot to create “Eurabia.” He declined repeated interview requests.

While many Dutch recoil at his language, he touches on real fears. “Sometimes I’m afraid of Islam,” Ms. Kuhlman said. “They’re taking over the neighborhood and they’re very strong. I don’t love Wilders. He’s a pig, but he says what many people think.”

Now, after Norway, the Dutch are taking stock. The killings frightened everyone, said Kathleen Ferrier, a Christian Democrat legislator born in Surinam, who had objected to her party joining a Wilders-supported government. “Norway makes it clear how much Dutch society is living on the edge of its nerves,” she said. “Wilders says hateful things and no one objects. We have freedom of speech, but you also have to be responsible for the effect of your words.”

Taboos about discussing ethnicity and race — founded in shame about delivering Dutch Jews to the Nazis — are long gone.

Ms. Kuhlman has lived in the Slotervaart neighborhood for 36 years but says, “I no longer feel at home.” Built in the 1950s, Slotervaart is now about 60 percent immigrants or their children, most from Morocco or Turkey. Crime rates are high, especially among the second generation.

She remembered sunbathing topless on her balcony in the 1980s. “It’s inconceivable now,” she said. “Now my next-door neighbor doesn’t even greet me in the hallway, he can’t look at me, and it’s been 28 years,” Ms. Kuhlman said.

Then she laughed bitterly. “He doesn’t work; I work. I work all shifts. I pay taxes. I work for them!”

Willem Stuyter, nursing a beer, broke in. “It’s already too late,” he said. “In 10 years this will be a Muslim state.”

Mr. Wilders is the political inheritor of two more flamboyant and intellectual figures — Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, who both spoke about the dangers of Islam to Dutch civic culture. Both warned of homophobia, anti-Semitism and suppression of women, and both were killed — Mr. Fortuyn in 2002 by an animal-rights activist and Mr. van Gogh in 2004 by a Dutch Muslim who shot him, tried to cut off his head and attached a note to his body with a knife.

The brutal murder of Mr. van Gogh after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was a turning point, giving a focus to social unease and anxiety about immigration, multiculturalism and Muslims.

If part of the Dutch anxiety is about identity, there are similar concerns among Muslims here. There are two parallel sets of identity crises, said Ahmed Marcouch, 42, son of an illiterate Moroccan immigrant and now a Labor member of Parliament. Most Muslims came from poor, less educated parts of Morocco and eastern Turkey, and clung to traditional values and the mosque as bulwarks against a secular society that promoted individualism, gender equality and gay rights.

“They didn’t speak Dutch, they didn’t know Holland, and they saw the sexual revolution, feminism and youth anarchism as a provocation, as part of a decadent society,” Mr. Marcouch said. He remembers his father saying with contempt, “Women are the bosses here.”

 

two-year old girl was discovered abandoned in a rubbish container in southeastern Spain late Saturday and her parents arrested.

The child was discovered after residents talking an evening stroll in the town of Cabezo de Torres in the Murcia region of Spain heard muffled sobs coming from a wheelie bin.
After removing several large rubbish bags they discovered the girl cowering inside. Local reports said she was “crying and sweating and showing panic in her face”.
Police located her parents, reportedly of North African origin, and they were arrested later Saturday evening and are now awaiting trial on suspicion of neglect.
The suspects have not been named and the girl, described as being “in perfect health”, is being cared for by social services.
The incident follows that in May in the nearby town of Alcantarilla when a Romanian couple approached four different women offering to sell their five-month old daughter for €5,000 (£4,450).

 

Malaria is killing off our sparrows and owls as mosquitoes invade

Sparrows, chaffinches, owls and nightingales are being killed off by an upsurge in malaria.

Experts say at least 30 species of British birds are affected and growing numbers are dying.

They believe the tropical disease is on the rise because the mosquitoes that spread it have benefited from this country’s warmer and wetter climate.

Thirty per cent of UK house sparrows are affected with malaria now, compared with under ten in 1990
Malaria rates among great tits has increased by five fold in the last ten years

Soaring: Malaria rates for house sparrows has risen to 30 per cent since 1990, while great tits have seen a five-fold increase to 15 per cent

Thirty per cent of UK house sparrows are infected with malaria – compared with barely 10 per cent in 1990. 

Two thirds of the country’s 38,000 tawny owls are hit. In 1996, just one in 40 had the disease. The great tit has seen its infection rate soar fivefold to 15 per cent. 

All three species are non-migratory and must have been infected with avian malaria in the UK, through mosquito bites.

The disease, which is brought into the country by infected migratory birds, cannot spread to humans. Grahame Madge, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said: ‘Malaria is circulating at low levels in the UK. 

‘It is not always fatal as many birds have resistance to it, but if we get new strains and new types of mosquitoes it poses an increasing hazard to an already declining population.

To blame: Mosquito bites to migratory birds allow the disease to be moved into the UK where it affects species which do not migrate

To blame: Mosquito bites to migratory birds allow the disease to be moved into the UK where it affects species which do not migrate

‘Climate change is bringing warmer weather conditions that are likely to favour the colonization of some insects to our shores that cannot survive at the moment, and that could bring an upsurge in disease.’

Since 1970, sparrow populations have declined by 67 per cent, and nightingales by 90 per cent, for a variety of reasons, including other diseases, predators and threats to their habitats. 

Ben Sheldon, professor of ornithology at Oxford University, said: ‘Malaria is a significant cause of mortality, but how it is transmitted is not straightforward. It is quite hard to predict.’

The avian malaria epidemic was identified in a study published in May by Laszlo Garamszegi, an expert with the Spanish government.

In the largest analysis carried out so far he examined malaria infection rates from more than 3,000 species around the world, dating back over 70 years.

He found that an increase in global temperatures of 1c was accompanied by a two- to three-fold increase in the average prevalence of malaria in birds. 

 He said there had been big increases in the past 20 years.

The paper, published in the journal Global Change Biology, suggests higher temperatures could herald a return of human malaria to northern Europe.

Around 3,000 Britons a year are infected with the disease, mainly from tropical holidays. But if human malaria started to be transmitted here through mosquitoes, rates would rise.

Avian malaria is also ravaging the native birds of Hawaii and wreaking havoc in New Zealand.




 

 

Tuesday 2 August 2011

Enrique Iglesias - Young Enrique Iglesias Had Police Protection After Grandfather's Kidnap

Spanish superstar Enrique Iglesias grew up surrounded by police as a young child after his grandfather's life was threatened in a "horrifying" kidnap plot.
The Hero hitmaker, the son of world-famous Latin singer Julio Iglesias, moved to Spain with his mum after his parents divorced when he was just three years old.
The singer had a relatively regular upbringing with his siblings in Madrid until his grandfather, Dr. Julio Iglesias, Sr., was abducted and held for ransom by Spanish terrorist organisation Eta.
Recalling the incident for Vh1 special Behind the Music, which aired in the U.S. on Sunday (30Jul11), he said, "I had a great childhood, until I was eight years old. It was tough because my grandfather got kidnapped. That was a pretty horrifying time."
His grandpa was eventually released unscathed after spending nearly a month in captivity, but the scary incident prompted Enrique to move to Miami, Florida to live with his father for safety reasons.
He added, "Suddenly I was surrounded by policemen constantly. I would have two to three bodyguards (with me all time), I remember it was chaotic, everything was crazy. My life completely changed."

 

Monday 1 August 2011

British and Scandinavian buyers, back to snap up Spanish property bargains

British and Scandinavian buyers, back to snap up Spanish property bargains, are raising their sights as they realise their budgets now enable to them to buy something bigger and better than they had hoped for...

At the peak of Spain’s Costa property boom in 2007 British buyers accounted for one in three property purchases, but stayed away when the recession swept in. This year they have returned in ever increasing numbers to check out the improved value for money deals on offer.

Spanish banks have cut prices on repossessions and key ready apartments on developments in default on constructions loans by up to 50% and sold off the best of the deals to savvy buyers who realised they could afford a 2-bed sea view apartment instead of a 1-bed in the back of beyond; or a villa with shared pool for the same price as a previous penthouse.

One bank, helped by generous mortgage deals, reports property sales have soared by 140% in the last 12 months, but may be left with lot of unsalable units at the bottom end of the market in poor locations.

Now private buyers have decided to bite the bullet and lower their prices to compete with the Spanish bank repossessions on price and with the added benefit of better condition, including furniture and appliances and excellent track records in the holiday rentals market.

Ben Walker, sales manager of specialists PropertyInSpain.Net said Spain is now a buyers' market “with an even greater choice and fantastic value in all the popular locations”.

Property values have come down by up to 50% in some cases during the last 3 years. So you will now get so much more for your money as purchasing power has become even greater, producing immediate equity growth potential and an excellent return on investment in the future.

There are even dream bargain refurb fincas in the unspoilt Mallorca countryside on offer priced from EUR 150,000 to a bank-owned house in the millionaires’ Majorca mountain hideaway of Deia Village at less than EUR 1 million – a saving of EUR 300,000 on the book price and no mortgage repayments to find for three years.

There are bay-view villas and apartments with 107% mortgages in Costa Calida next to the site of a rentals-generating EUR 1.5 billion Hollywood theme park and sea view apartments in Costa del Sol with 100% mortgages on the area’s most successful holiday rentals development.

Special online showcases listing the latest deals from banks, private sellers and troubled developers are generating 100s of inquiries, pre-approvals on mortgages and viewing requests every week.

cannabis haul off the Almería coast 750 kilos of the drug have been seized and two people taken into custody

Civil Guard have arrested two people after recovering 750 kilos of cannabis from a suspicious boat spotted off the coast of Guardias Viejas, El Ejido.

The Guardia said in a press release on Monday that the boat was intercepted some nine miles off shore and was found to be carrying 22 bales of cannabis, with a total weight of just under 747 kilos.

The two crew members, Nabil M. and Abdelkhak B., were both arrested and will be questioned at Instruction Court No. 3 in El Ejido.

 

British tourist denounces Ibiza barman for sexual agression

British tourist has denounced a waiter for sexual abuse after a night out on Ibiza. The victim claims that she was taken to a room off the main part of the disco at 5am on Saturday morning.

Judge María Risueño decided to grant bail of 1,000 € for the accused after hearing his statement, that of the alleged victim and of her friends.

The group of Britons admitted that they had been drinking and taking drugs during the evening and they also said the victim, who is reported to be around 25, had been flirting with the 30 year old man who worked behind the bar.

The victim is reported to have told her friends that she felt ill and did not remember what had happened in the room, but she told the police that ‘she had the sensation’ that the waiter had abused her, according to reports in the Diario de Ibiza.

On the Saturday morning she was taken to hospital to be inspected by doctors and although there were no serious injuries there were indications that she could have suffered a sexual aggression. Her fr

 

Angry Movistar client hacks into operator's web page to complain

angry Movistar client from Elche managed to hack into the company’s web page on Monday morning, where he published a letter complaining about the lack of broadband coverage in his area. It was published under a new section he created entitled ‘Requests for ADSL coverage’.

It informs users, ‘Here you will find clients who are fed up of browsing the Web without being able to use their land line at the same time and with a speed and technology from the last century.’

The indignant client is Juan Rodríguez, who lives less than 6 kilometres from a town of 230,000 inhabitants, but says he only has a connection speed of 56 kbps. He also complains about problems with the installation in his home and the frequent crashes of his Internet connection.

He ends by calling on Movistar to get their act together and, if not, puts his hopes in the municipal WiFi service which is planned by his local Town Hall.

His letter had disappeared from the Movistar web site later on Monday.

 

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