Problems in Europe
Aug 14, 2018
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.AN ENORMOUS span of a road bridge in Genoa, Italy has collapsed killing
scores of motorists and trapping many more in the rubble. It is believed that the
occupants of ten vehicles were in the vicinity of the Morandi bridge when a 200-
metre stretch of the structure collapsed during a heavy storm on Tuesday. The
Polizia di Stato have shared footage of parts of the bridge crumbling into the water
Dozens of vehicles burned in Sweden's four major cities - Stockholm, Malmo,
Gothenburg and Uppsala - on Monday evening and in the early hours of Tuesday
after gangs of youths launched a series of attacks across the country, believed to
have been coordinated on social media. Gothenburg police say they have
identified the attackers and are speaking to their parents..............
An Afghan asylum-seeker has been arrested after injuring four people in a drunke
n and frenzied knife attack in a sleepy French town. The incident began last night
with the 19-year-old man, who is said to have psychological problems, lashing out
at cars outside his home in Perigueux,..............
The municipal spokesperson for the conservative Popular Party (PP) in Vigo,
Elena Muñoz, sent out a tweet on August 8 that now appears to have been
premonitory. “This is the week of the O Marisquiño [festival], but the place where
it will be held is not in a good condition. Broken timbers, spikes pointing into the
air… The Paseo de las Avenidas is in a dangerous state. We hope that for the
good of all nothing happens either during or after the event.”
Six countries from the European Union have reached an agreement to take in the
141 migrants that are currently on board the Aquarius NGO rescue ship, as well
as a further 100 that have also been picked up in the Mediterranean, Spanish
government sources have announced. Under the deal, Spain will take in a total of
60 people.............
For now, it appears to be the perfect crime. The thieves who last week robbed the
Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee, in a hotel in Valencia, didn’t use guns or
violence. Nor did they have to work out the access code for the safe in the room
of the co-writer of worldwide smash hit Despacito...........
AIRPORT police in Spain have arrested a man who tried to outsmart sniffer dogs
and officers by using curry paste to conceal drugs. The 39-year-old man was
found to be carrying 5.5 kilos of heroin in a false-bottomed suitcase by the
Guardia Civil officers at the Malaga-Costa del Sol airport.
POLICE in Spain are hunting a 'savage' man after he impaled a dog on a spiked fe
nce while throwing it into an animal shelter to abandon it.........
In the UK The Westminster terror suspect who ploughed into 15 cyclists and
pedestrians was known to police and travelled to London from his Midlands home
in a Ford Fiesta bought just two months ago. He was refusing to speak to
detectives about why he carried out the shocking carborne rush hour attack
outside Parliament ........................................................
Meanwhile, The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn defied calls fro his own MPs,
Jewish leaders and even the Israeli Prime Minister for being at the 2014 ceremony honouring extremists. ......................
Tory peer Lord Skeikh must be investigated for attended the controversial
conference in Tunisia at the heart of the Jeremy Corbyn wreath laying scandal, a
senior Conservative today said.
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