The parents of the other children decided in a meeting to make this move in order to protest against the schooling of the gypsies, although they claim their decision is not a racialist one. The Basque government has issued a statement reminding the parents that they are obliged by law to see their children attend school. The drug was packed into 29 bales and the man was caught at 3am yesterday morning as the drug was unloaded from a boat. 3 women and a man died and 2 other women were injured in the early hours of yesterday when a lorry ran into a broken down van on the Sevilla to Huelva motorway. All the dead were inside the van at the time of the tragedy.
Police reports say there was fog in the area at the time.
The shoot out was with a man who was robbing a bank and who managed to make his escape. And in a separate incident in Salamanca a 70 year old father shot and injured his drug addict son in the chest when the son demanded money from him to buy more drugs. It happened in the family home, neighbours commenting that arguments were frequent and the family was tormented by the addict son. She held the post for the first time last year. Italian writer Umberto Eco was presented yesterday with the Prince of Asturias prize for communication.