Two sisters-in-law and the boyfriend of one of them were arrested for allegedly murdering a 26-year-woman in La Rinconada in Sevilla on Tuesday the 19th of April.

The alleged assailants, who were arrested by the Guardia Civil yesterday the 23rd, had beaten her about the head before administration over 50 stab wounds.

The Guardia Civil also searched the homes of the accused, looking for the murder weapons, a kitchen knife and a heavy solid object used to inflict the head wound. However, the search proved fruitless.

The attack reportedly took place because the assailants believe that the victim was responsible for her husband’s death, who died from a stroke in December.

Next we come to the ordeal of 22-year-old Maloma Morales, Spanish citizen of Sahrawi origin who was kidnapped by her relatives whilst visiting the country.

The woman, resident of Mairena de Aljarafe in Sevilla came to Spain as 7-year-old child and after several summer stays with a Spanish family, aged 12, it was agreed that she could stay on and study in Spain. When she reached 18, she was officially adopted by the family.

At the beginning of December last year she received news that her natural mother was ill so she travelled to the refugee camp where he family lived – the Saharawi people have lived these camps after the annexation of Spanish Saharan by Morocco since 1975.

She was supposed to have returned on the 12th of that month but nothing was heard from her. According to her Spanish boyfriend, 50 minutes before catching the return flight her brother, an aunt and two cousins bundled her into a car and drove off with her.

Four months later her release has been secured by the intervention of the Secretary General of the UN, Ban-Ki Moon, when on an official visit to the refugee camps, where he negotiated her return with the Polisario Front and the Algerian Government.

(News: Sevilla, Andalucia – Saharan Refugee camps)