The Supreme Court of Iceland sentenced four men to prison for the brutal assault of a tourist in downtown Reykjavík in May 2010. The men were sentenced to between one and three years in prison, Morgunblaðið reports. The victim, who died in a hospital in Italy in December 2011, received repeated blows and kicks to his body, head and face. Read Article
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As reported by mirror.co.uk, “A British teenager has drowned after jumping into a swimming pool following a night out at a French ski resort. Lucy Sallis, 19, is believed to have scaled a fence and jumped into the outdoor pool at around 4.45am.” Read Article
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A man of 62 years and a British national has died in a fire at his home in the town of Marbella and Malaga, apparently, would have as origin a candle to the power outage. The incident took place on Monday in a duplex located in Slate Retreat Nagüeles urbanization. To enter the housing was […]
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According to euroweeklynews.com, “A SPANISH tourist died trying to board a plane in Rome. The deceased was late for his flight from Ciampino airport to Bari in southern Italy, at around 7am. He jumped through boarding security controls to get to the runway, but Ryanair staff refused to let him onboard as he did not […]
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A hiker died 48 years this weekend in the town of Montagut i Oix in Garrotxa (Girona), accidentally falling into a ravine from a height of about 80 meters, reported today the Catalan firemen. The man, a resident of Girona, left last Friday for a tour of an area known as Ferran crest and was […]
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As reported by dailyrecord.co.uk, “…Scotland’s most wanted man Michael Voudouri – tracked by the Sunday Mail to his bolthole in the Med.The £10million fraud fugitive was found in Cyprus by our team seven weeks after he fled Scotland to escape up to to 10 years in jail.” Read Article
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As reported by dailymail.co.uk, “A British man has been arrested in France following the brutal murder of a mother-of-three who was out jogging. The 32-year-old man, named only as Robert, lives just a few hundred yards from the scene of last Thursday’s attack on the outskirt of Nimes. He is originally from Chatham in Kent. […]
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According to itar-tass.com, “Seven Russian citizens have been injured as a result of a road traffic accident in the south of Finland when a minibus collided with a truck, the South Karelia response centre told Itar-Tass on Saturday.” Read Article
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telegraph.co.uk reported that a bus carrying 44 people, among them children, from Portalegre to the tourist site of Santa Maria da Feria in the north of the country, careered off a rain soaked road and down a steep slope near the town of Serta. The dead included five women and six men all aged between […]
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As reported by thelocal.se, “The 23-year-old French student who had been missing for two weeks in southern Sweden was found dead on Wednesday night, with police stating that they no longer suspected any foul play. The student, Samuel Babin, was found dead in a wooded area in Karlskrona just after 8pm on Wednesday.” Read Article
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