The Guardia Civil arrested two individuals aged 20 and 22, suspected of carrying out a mugging on the Playa Rambla del Agua in Rubite.
The victims were a young couple who had been sitting on the beach when approached by the two Moroccan men and threatened with knives.
The man was forced to hand over his mobile phone valued at 1,000 euros whilst the woman gave them the 115 euros she had in her purse.
Both victims were held with knives to their throats whilst they handed over their valuables.
The incident took place in the early hours of the 3rd of January. As soon as the muggers left, the couple ran up to the N-340 for help. They were in luck – a Guardia Civil patrol car out of Motril was passing along the road at the time.
The officers radioed in the information, requesting help to search for the assailants in the area. Another patrol car came across the two men walking along a street in Castell de Ferro, whose descriptions matched that given by the couple.
They were searched on the spot and the officers found a knife in the pockets of one man, as well as the 115 euros, and then the phone in the pockets of the other. The other knife had been found on the beach where the mugging took place because one of the arrested men had seen the first patrol car nearing the beach along the N-340 and had ditched it.
The arrested men were taken to the Guardia Civil post in Castell where the couple had no trouble indentifying them as the culprits, after which their stolen belongings were returned.
(News: Rubite, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
Derek: this is my last response on the subject as I really don’t have the time. The reason that “all recent stories on the website about burglaries or muggings shows no mention of nationality” is because, unsurprisingly they involved Spaniards and as we are in Spain, it does not merit mentioning their nationality, does it?
Now, you could just admit that you had an unjustified, knee-jerk reaction – fair enough, or you could just drop it but if you do wish to continue suggesting that the Seaside Gazette indulges in racist reporting, you will have to do so without my participation.
Believe it or not, we welcome criticism which is why comments like yours get published even if we consider them unjustified. You, Derek, for example, have submitted 10 comments on the site and all of them have been published. 😉
Stephanie: Yes, it’s Casarones, which is next door. I can’t find a photo of the Playa del Barranco del Agua, which is somewhere between Casarones and La Mamola, can you? Perhaps you would like to send me one, that also shows the N-340 so that readers can see that the beach is close to road. So, send me a photo and I will gladly replace it. Thank you.
I didn’t know hanging from HT wires or walking in your shorts were crimes. It is a bit difficult to write a story about extradition without mentioning the country concerned.
A quick scan of all recent stories on the website about burglaries or muggings shows no mention of nationality of those arrested.
This village is actually called Casarones.
Derek: Because when it is a Swede arrested and deported for fraud nobody complains about the nationality being mentioned. Because when it is a Brit being rescued in shorts up in the Sierra Nevada at Christmas, nobody complains about the nationality being mentioned and because when it is a German hanging from HT lines, nobody complains about the nationality being mentioned, yet, here we are because it is a Moroccan somebody jumps in and implies racism on the part of the magazine.
Racism would be if we had not mentioned the nationality in this case. It is precisely the reaction that you have expressed that supplies the extreme right with ammunition when they claim that certain nationalities and races are ‘untouchable.’
There are times when political correctness, Derek, constricts my defecation process, especially when Seaside Gazette is repeatedly critical of Vox.
Why is there a need to publish the nationality of a criminal? I thought it was only right wing nutters like Vox who were obsessed with a criminals nationality.