HBG

Not many of the 90,000 British and German expats who fled Spain in 2013 blamed terrorist attacks although there have been quite a few in recent years. They blamed corruption, tax, tax, the recession and earthquakes, but yesterday ETA bombed Alicante and Benidorm cities which injured eight people even after giving warnings, without evacuation there would have been deaths.

I saw the news yesterday and as a concerned resident expected to see the relevant news channels full of it today, but it appears to have been airbrushed from existence, Spain depends on tourism and doesn't want this kind of publicity. The places which have been bombed previously, like Alicante, Torrevieja and even tiny Santa Pola have ten times more Spanish holidaymakers than British ones, although British and German residents make up a quarter of the population - the latter are leaving at a fast rate of knots

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3086627.stm

You've got a slight chance against taxes and even an earthquake, but none against a bomb.

andyrich666

Cant find any link to this at all, social media would be rife about this, I don't think it could be covered up. There is only talk of anniversarys, is there any credible link to back this up ?

steviedeluxe

If you look on the BBC webpage he links to

Last updated: Wednesday, 23 July, 2003, 00:55 GMT 01:55 UK

Could have been worse I suppose - a thread telling us to keep away from Gibraltar because there are shoot-to-kill operations going on there...oh wait..

HBG

So sorry, somebody sent me the link and I didn't check the date.

@Stevie: If a Spanish person in Madrid stuck a banger up your arse, you would still be singing the praises of the place.

steviedeluxe

It's not me getting paranoid about expats under attack!

andyrich666

No pasa nada !

I saw the date before Stevie, I never wrote about it as it looked so obvious from the photos, maybe a trip to specsavers would help. please take in jest !

Dick Dasterdly

To the best of my knowledge the main culprits ETA renounced further bomb attacks and violence last year.

The Madrid atrocity was traced to Al Qaeda after ETA were wrongly accused in the first instance which had a big effect on the election result at that time.

Whether or not there are still major threats from other sources such as N.Africa, I know not, though revenge killings and vendettas seem to be the order of the day at present.

scot47

Another shocking story covered up by the media !? Like the one about the expulsion of the Jews !

Ah I just noticed the date !!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree

Mitzyboy

I found some reports coming in about American troops landing on the beaches of Normandy ...... should we be concerned do you think ........













(I almost texted a friend who is staying in Benidorm to check if they were OK ...........)

Dick Dasterdly

Well at least there is some good news to balance up all this negativity.



Apparently Mafekin has been relieved.

jimenato

Domino

There is a rumour going around that there is a guy going round feeding people with 6 loaves and 6 fishes

HBG

I hope they hurry up building those aircraft carriers in case they're needed to get all us expats home . . .

me me

What has Mafekin been relieved of? his wallet, his duty, what?

Dick Dasterdly

Not sure exactly,

.......but apparently someone gave him a packet of Sennopods and in no time at all he was running around like a blue assed fly.