Euro Weekly News - Costa de Almeria 18 - 24 July 2019 Issue 1776

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Sentence cut
THE Supreme Court supported
the Andalucia High Court’s
conclusion a man’s sentence
for sexually abusing a young
woman with Asperger’s in a
Garrucha gym in 2016 should
be reduced from eight to seven
and half years given the ‘reasonable
doubt’ he’d known she
has the condition.
Charity soup
ALMERIA’S record-breaking
giant gazpacho raised over
€18,000 for the Spanish AECC
cancer association and the AN-
DA association for disabled
children. A good proportion of
the 9,800 litres of gazpacho
produced earlier this month
was donated to soup kitchens
in Almeria City, Guadix and
Granada.
Pool scare
A YOUNG child nearly
drowned after falling into a
residential complex swimming
pool in Aguadulce. A resident
fished the little boy out of the
water and managed to revive
him following 061 coordination
centre instructions by
phone, before a medical unit
arrived and took him to hospital.
Migrant rescue
SALVAMENTO MARITIMO
rescued 100 immigrants from
two small boats in the Alboran
Sea on Saturday morning following
a number of calls warning
the dinghies had set off
from the Moroccan coast. The
Sub-Saharans, among them
several pregnant women, were
transferred to Almeria port.
Bullet proof
ROQUETAS DE MAR Council
presented 24 additional bulletproof
jackets to the Local Police
force this week. Mayor
Gabriel Amat said he was
pleased the administration has
in three phases achieved its
aim of providing the protective
equipment for all the officers
patrolling the municipality’s
streets.
Flag flyer
PROVINCIAL council president
Javier A Garcia met Mister
International Spain hopeful
Daniel Romero last week,
presenting the 24-year-old
law graduate with the Almeria
flag he will carry for a parade
in front of the judges in this
Sunday’s competition celebrated
in Villanueva de la
Jara in Cuenca.
REVELRY: The Battle of Wine sees attendees douse each other with the drink.
Booze battle
THIS picture of revellers being
doused with wine comes as northern
Spain’s La Rioja region prepares to
celebrate a festival themed around
the drink on Saturday.
The Battle of Wine takes place in the
Riscos de Bilibio area of the region
every year. Between 30,000 and 40,000
litres are used during the festival, according
to estimates from organisers.
The fiesta begins with a procession
of its participants at 9am.
Attendees carry jugs, bottles and
other containers filled with red wine
Drug traffickers caught
GUARDIA CIVIL intercepted a boat carrying more than
400 kilos of hashish on board just off the Adra coast.
Four different units and a maritime service patrol took
part in the operation dubbed ‘Chelja,’ launched after the
Guardia’s Almeria communications centre reported its exterior
surveillance system had picked up on a suspicious
small craft approaching Adra’s beaches.
When the boat came ashore in the area known as Boca
del Rio-La Conda and a number of individuals began unloading
the illegal cargo, one of the Guardia patrols
moved in on them.
The suspected criminals fled, but officers caught up
with one, finding him crouched down in undergrowth next
to a pile of eight hash bundles. The suspect identified as
KC faces drug trafficking charges.
The maritime service recovered a further three bundles
of hash found floating in the sea.
FOLLOW US ON
to the Hermitage of San Felices de
Bilibio. They are led into the battle
by the mayor of Haro on horseback.
Revellers then throw wine over
one another until they are soaked before
returning to Haro for more celebrations
in the Plaza de la Paz.
Mock bullfights featuring calves
that are not killed are among the activities
which take place during the
rest of the day.
The fiesta grew out of an annual
pilgrimage in honour of San Felices
de Bilibio which began during the
Almeria telescope
discovers Earth-like planets
SCIENTISTS have identified two planets not unlike Earth which
just might be able to support life with images captured at Almeria’s
Calar Alto Observatory and by two other telescopes in Spain.
A report published last week in Astronomy & Astrophysics revealed
the planets have a similar mass to Earth, are warm, and
could have liquid water on their surface.
The find was possible thanks to the Spanish-German
CARMENES project, which since 2016 has searched for planets
around nearby stars. The investigations have been carried out with
the assistance of a high precision spectrograph installed on a 3.5-
metre telescope at the Calar Alto observatory, which is located in
the highest point of the province in the Filabres mountains.
The two planets orbit the Teegarden star, a red dwarf much
smaller and less bright than our sun and 12 light-years from our solar
system.
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medieval era.
The first account of wine being
thrown came towards the end of the
19th century. The addition of revelry
to the festival was at first controversial,
but it became a standard feature
by 1949 when it was first referred to
as the Battle of Wine.
The fiesta began drawing visitors
from outside the area and Haro
Council secured recognition for it as
a festival of interest to tourists in
1965. It received national recognition
in 2011.
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