A judge has served a court order on a homeless man, who has lived in a Malaga Airport terminal for the last two years, forbidding him from approaching within 200 metres of it. The airport police have arrested him three times in one month for breaking this court order.

Two years ago this homeless man just turned up one day and simply decided to stay there – he didn’t arrive on a flight; he simply walked in off the streets. The airport police started by asking him to go, before finally obtaining a court order against him being there.

It is unusual for a judge to give a court order preventing a citizen entering into a public place, but there is a first time for everything, it appears.

The man concerned is a 43-year-old, British citizen by the name of Carl Richard, according to the Ideal newspaper. Most people there don’t know his name but the Spanish staff and workers know him as El F*cking as his most habitual comment is, “F*ck you!” Others call him El Ninja because he dresses in black and practices martial arts in the terminal.

Trouble began almost on the day he arrived, which was November 2010, when the police arrested him for throwing a stone at a rent-a-car. Once he was released, he came straight back. In July 2011 he was arrested for pouring the contents of a bottle of cleaning fluid (ammonia) on a cleaner. Two months later he was threatening passengers with mop handle. But the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak, occurred last November when he entered a car-rental office and began to threaten the woman working there. This time, the police sought a court order.

On the 4th of January a judge issued the said court order, forbidding Carl Richard from coming within 200 metres of the airport. Since then he has been spotted and ejected three times and now nobody knows where he is, although most speculate, not far.

(News: Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)