Brit, 31, fighting for his life after smashing his head when trying to jump from balcony to swimming pool... - The Sun

A BRIT has been left fighting for his life after trying to jump from a balcony to a swimming pool in Spain.

The man, 31, smashed his head when he plunged from the third floor of a holiday apartment in San Pedro de Alcantara, near the popular tourist resort of Marbella.

The 31-year-old Brit plunged from the balcony of a holiday apartment in San Pedro de AlcantaraCredit: Getty

The incident happened at around 7pm on Monday and the man is currently in hospital in a serious condition, according to medics.

He is said to have been rushed to hospital with a severe head injury and damage to internal organs as well as multiple fractures.

Local reports said he had tried to jump into the swimming pool below the third-balcony during a party with friends, a practice known as "balconing".

Malaga newspaper Sur said he missed the water and instead hit a sunshade next to the pool before crashing to the ground.

Emergency responders spent nearly 40 minutes stabilising the injured man at the scene before he was taken by ambulance to the Costa del Sol Hospital, a 20-minute drive away.

The man was rushed to a hospital in MalagaCredit: Alamy

He was subsequently transferred to another hospital in Malaga and admitted to intensive care.

Balconing is the term given to the practice of either trying to climb on to balconies or from one room to another, or to try and jump or dive into a swimming pool below.

It has become a common practice especially in holiday destinations such as Spain, with local authorities issuing warnings several times.

In 2019, Spanish police handed fines to three holidaymakers in Magaluf after they launched themselves from balconies into a swimming pool.

The fines are between £530 and £1,300 and can also apply to anyone who encourages a friend to have a go at balconing.

Balconing has become popular among touristsCredit: Alamy

Officials handed fines to balconing touristsCredit: Solarpix

The same year a young Brit Freddie Pring, 20, died after falling from a Magaluf balcony during a lads' holiday.

The rugby player was found lying on the ground close to death near a tobacco shop after falling from the second floor of the Wave House Hotel.

Despite the efforts of the police and emergency services, he passed away at the scene.

Last year another Brit plunged to death from the seventh floor of a Marbella hotel, killing another local on the ground.

The 50-year-old man fell from a luxury Costa del Sol hotel and killed a 43-year-old Spaniard who was having a drink in the terrace below. 

This is the moment a group of 40 young influencers practice balconing jumping from the roof of a house, breaking the coronavirus measures in a Marbella villa

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FBI app lures global criminals into police hands - BBC News - BBC News

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Mother 'dangled daughter over balcony as punishment - then accidentally dropped her to her death' - Daily Mail

Mother 'dangled daughter, three, over sixth floor balcony as punishment for crying - then accidentally dropped her to her death', Russian cops claim

• The child Anastasia was heard on a video pleading 'Mama, I am scared' then 'I am scared, scared, scared…..I am scared' before she fell 60ft to her death
• Horrific footage catches the final moment of her fall before she hits the ground
• Mother Anna Ruzankina is then seen in a lift after she retrieved the dead girl
• The mother, 23, desperately shakes the lifeless girl as if trying to revive her 
• WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: 

By Will Stewart for MailOnline

Published: 07:44 BST, 9 June 2021 | Updated: 08:11 BST, 9 June 2021

A mother has been detained for suspected murder in Russia after dangling her daughter, three, over a balcony as punishment for crying - then dropping her, say law enforcement.

The child, named Anastasia, was heard on a video pleading 'Mama, I am scared' then 'I am scared, scared, scared…..I am scared' before she fell 60ft to her death.

The horrific footage catches the final moment of her fall before she hits the ground.

The mother, Anna Ruzankina, 23, is then seen in a CCTV lift video having retrieved the dead girl and holding her in the lift as she took her body back up to the family's sixth floor flat in Saratov, said Life News.

She shakes the lifeless child as if trying to revive her.

Footage shows three-year-old Anastasia plunging from the balcony and landing on the ground outside their apartment building in Saratov, southwestern Russia

The mother is seen desperately shaking her daughter in the lift after going down to collect her 

Reports said the mother (left, and with Anastasia, right) had been holding the screaming girl by her T-shirt over the balcony edge 

Reports said the mother had been holding the screaming girl by her T-shirt over the balcony edge.

The shirt tore, and the child fell.

The incident came after Ruzankina had been out to a nightclub and was drunk, said reports.

A male passerby - seen on the video - said he heard 'a child's loud screams from an upper floor.

'And suddenly I heard a dull sound of falling.

'The screams stopped.

'When I turned around, I saw a little girl covered in blood lying on the asphalt.

'I ran to call the emergency services. I was so shocked.'

Neighbours said the mother had claimed the child climbed over the balcony herself.

The harrowing footage shows the child plunging from the sixth floor of the building

Neighbours said the mother had claimed the child climbed over the balcony herself

'I told her she would fall,' she was heard saying.

But Ruzankina was detained on suspicion of murdering a minor in a helpless state.

She faces up to 21 years in jail if convicted.

Ruzankina 'dropped her young daughter, born in 2018, from the balcony', said the Russian Investigative Committee.

'Currently, the suspect has been detained.'

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British drug gangs among 800 criminals caught in FBI global spy app sting - The Times

British drug gangs and money launderers were among hundreds of criminals caught up in a global FBI messaging app sting, the National Crime Agency revealed yesterday.

At least 300 criminal gangs operating in more than 100 countries were duped into conducting their illegal activities on Anom, an encrypted app that was secretly monitored by police and intelligence services.

The FBI used Anom to fill a gap in the market after European law enforcement agencies hacked into Encrochat, a phone network used by tens of thousands of criminals in Britain and elsewhere.

The NCA said the sting had enabled it to carry out “multiple operations” against organised crime groups involved in drug trafficking and money laundering in the UK.

The operation, known as Trojan Shield, allowed

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Huge international crime ring smashed by police using encrypted phones - Metro.co.uk

More than 800 people have been arrested as part of the operation (Picture: Reuters)

Organised crime gangs have been targeted in a global sting which has seen more than 800 people arrested.

Police secretly distributed special phones which could not make or receive calls, but which they could monitor among the alleged criminals.

Those using the encrypted phones believed they were communicating securely about crime including the drugs trade, weapons, money laundering and murder, it is alleged.

Police have now ensnared suspects in Australia, Asia, Europe, South America and the Middle East.

They have confiscated drugs, weapons, cash and luxury cars, officials said today.

Millions of dollars in cash were seized in raids around the world, along with 30 tonnes of drugs including more than eight tonnes of cocaine.

A man is arrested as part of the investigation (Picture: Reuters)

Operation Greenlight/Trojan Shield was conceived by Australian police and the FBI in 2018.

It was one of the biggest infiltrations and takeovers of a specialised encrypted network.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the operation had ‘struck a heavy blow against organised crime, not just in this country, but … around the world’.

The operation began when US officials paid a convicted drug trafficker to give them access to a smartphone that he had customised, on which he was installing ANOM, also styled An0m, a secure encrypted messaging app.

The phones were then sold to organised crime networks through underworld distributors.

The FBI helped to infiltrate 12,000 devices in 300 criminal groups in more than 100 countries, Calvin Shivers of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division told reporters in The Hague.

Money seized as part of the investigation (Picture: AFP)

In a pattern repeated elsewhere, one Australian underworld figure began distributing phones containing the app to his associates, believing their communications were secure because the phones had been rebuilt to remove all capabilities, including voice and camera functions, apart from ANOM.

As a result, there was no attempt to conceal or code the details of the messages – which police were reading.

‘We have been in the back pockets of organised crime … All they talk about is drugs, violence, hits on each other, innocent people who are going to be murdered,’ Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said.

The phones were such a hit that Italian mafiosi, Asian triads, biker gangs and transnational drug syndicates all began using them, providing the FBI and its partner forces around the world with a trove of 27 million messages.

Shivers said the FBI had been able to see photographs of ‘hundreds of tons of cocaine that were concealed in shipments of fruit’.

Australian police said they had arrested 224 people, including members of outlawed motorcycle gangs, and disrupted 21 murder plots.

Police confiscated drugs, weapons, cash and luxury cars (Picture: AFP)

Yesterday alone, they seized 104 firearms, including a military-grade sniper rifle, as well as almost A$45 million (£24.6 million) in cash, including A$7 million (£3.83 million) from a safe buried under a garden shed in a suburb of Sydney.

In Europe, there were 49 arrests in the Netherlands, 75 in Sweden and over 60 in Germany, where authorities seized hundreds of kilograms of drugs, more than 20 weapons and over 30 luxury cars and cash.

Finnish police not only detained almost 100 suspects and seized 500kg of narcotics but also found a warehouse with 3-D printers used to manufacture gun parts.

The operation also revealed that gangs were being tipped off about police actions, which prompted ‘numerous high-level public corruption cases in several countries’, according to an affidavit from an FBI agent.

Kershaw said the Australian underworld figure, who had absconded, had ‘essentially set up his own colleagues’ by distributing the phones, and was now a marked man.

‘The sooner he hands himself in, the better for him and his family.’

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World reacts as UN court upholds Mladic genocide conviction - Al Jazeera English

United Nations war crimes judges on Tuesday upheld a genocide conviction and life sentence against former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic in a move welcomed by the global body’s rights chief, world leaders and others.

The verdict by five judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals at The Hague saw Mladic’s appeal against the decision of a lower tribunal rejected on all grounds.

Mladic, 78, led Bosnian Serb forces during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

He was convicted in 2017 on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes including terrorising the civilian population of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo during a 43-month siege, and the killing of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.

He had been convicted by trial and ordered to serve life in prison, but appealed against both the verdict and sentence.

But the UN judges on Tuesday dismissed his appeal “in its entirety”. Their decision was final and cannot be appealed any further.

The ruling was meanwhile quickly welcomed by a range of world leaders, including the UN’s rights chief Michelle Bachelet and United States President Joe Biden, among others.

Here is a roundup of the reaction:

Michelle Bachelet

Bachelet, the UN’s human rights chief, praised Tuesday’s decision.

She said in a statement it “highlights the determination of the international justice system to ensure accountability no matter how long it may take – in Mladic’s case, nearly three decades after he committed his appalling crimes”.

Bachelet also urged officials and the press to “refrain from revisionist narratives, divisive rhetoric and incitement to hatred” in the wake of the ruling.

“Mladic’s crimes were the abhorrent culmination of hatred stoked for political gain. Today’s decision is about his individual responsibility for his dreadful acts, not about collective punishment or apportioning guilt to any particular community,” she said.

Joe Biden

Biden hailed the “historic” confirmation of Mladic’s life sentence.

“This historic judgment shows that those who commit horrific crimes will be held accountable,” Biden said in a statement.

“It also reinforces our shared resolve to prevent future atrocities from occurring anywhere in the world,” he added.

“My thoughts today are with all the surviving families of the many victims of Mladic’s atrocities. We can never erase the tragedy of their deaths, but I hope today’s judgment provides some solace to all those who are grieving.”

Alice Wairimu Nderitu

Nderitu, special adviser to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the prevention of genocide, said Tuesday’s decision “provides historical certainty and finality for victims and survivors”.

“It also sends a hugely important message throughout the Western Balkans where we see genocide denial and the glorification of convicted criminals such as Mladic not only persisting but increasing,” Nderitu said in a joint statement with Bachelet.

Heiko Maas

Germany’s foreign minister backed the judge’s decision to confirm the life sentence for Mladic as a “triumph”.

Heiko Maas tweeted that he was “relieved” by The Hague tribunal’s verdict and hoped the rejection of Mladic’s appeal would be “a certain consolation for the victims and the bereaved”.

Charles Michel

The President of the European Council described the ruling as an important step to provide justice to the victims of the genocide.

“It will help us all put the painful past behind us and put the future first,” Michel said on Twitter.

The final ruling by the international tribunal in the case against Ratko Mladić is another important step to provide justice to the victims.

It will help us all put the painful past behind us and to put the future first. #SrebrenicaMassacre pic.twitter.com/N4NJVXIJ8n

— Charles Michel (@eucopresident) June 8, 2021

Jasmin Mujanovic

Mujanovic, a political scientist who specialises in southeastern European affairs, welcomed the court’s decision to uphold Mladic’s convictions and the latter’s continued imprisonment.

But he criticised the ruling to reject an appeal by prosecutors of Mladic’s acquittal on one other count of genocide linked to ethnic purges early in the Bosnian war.

“The court has again failed to recognise that the genocide in Bosnia was not localised to Srebrenica,” Mujanovic tweeted.

“But he’ll [Mladic] leave the world alone, caged. A kinder death than he gave his victims.”

Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura

Buljusmic-Kustura, a writer and lecturer on genocide, fascism and ethnonationalism, said she had “mixed feelings” on Tuesday’s developments, which saw Presiding Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe of Zambia dissent on several of the court’s rulings concerning Mladic.

“Life sentence. Life in prison. But he gets to have a life while thousands of our people never will,” she tweeted.

“I have mixed feelings. Particularly given that the presiding judge dissented. This isn’t the end, really. As it will just further fuel the Serb ethno-nationalists.”

Turkish foreign ministry

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the verdict as a “manifestation of justice,” while adding that the UN’s decision “will not relieve the pain” of the relatives of those who died in Srebrenica.

“We hope that the decision will serve social peace and reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region and contribute to the prevention of similar crimes,” the ministry added in a statement.

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Emmanuel Macron slapped in face during walkabout in France - Financial Times

A man slapped Emmanuel Macron in the face on Tuesday, briefly interrupting a walkabout during the French president’s tour of the provinces ahead of this month’s regional elections. 

Two 28-year-old men were being questioned by the gendarmerie after the audible blow — accompanied by a shout of the royalist slogan “Montjoie Saint-Denis!” and “Down with Macronism!” — was delivered by a man among a group of onlookers in the southern town of Tain-l’Hermitage. 

Macron’s Elysée Palace said that a man had “tried to hit” the president, and that the conversations and handshakes with the crowd resumed immediately after the incident and the visit continued. 

Macron himself played down the assault. “The overwhelming majority of the French are interested in real problems,” he told the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper in an interview shortly afterwards. “Let’s not let isolated incidents or ultraviolent individuals — there are always some at the demonstrations as well — take control of the public debate. They are not worth it.”

Opposition parties have been fiercely critical of Macron’s “Tour de France” ahead of the regional elections on June 20 and 27, arguing that he was using his presidential status to promote his La République en Marche party without being subject to campaign finance limits. 

His supporters have argued that he merely wants to “take the pulse” of the French people to work out what he can achieve in the final year of his presidential mandate, which was scarred first by the anti-government gilets jaunes protests from 2018 and then by the Covid-19 pandemic.

But Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Rassemblement National party and the politician expected to be his main rival in next year’s presidential election, asked: “Is there a single person in France who hasn’t understood that Emmanuel Macron is taking advantage of his position as president to campaign for the regional elections?” 

On Tuesday, however, politicians across the spectrum rallied round to condemn the act of violence against Macron. 

Le Pen said the “behaviour was unacceptable and to be thoroughly condemned in a democracy”, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party, normally a fierce critic of Macron, said he was in solidarity with the president. 

Shortly before the incident, Macron was calling for political calm. He was reacting to Mélenchon’s prediction that there would be a staged “murder or serious incident” in the final week of the presidential election campaign next year in order to demonise Muslims, and to the subsequent posting by a rightwinger of a video showing the simulated murder of a Mélenchon supporter.

“Opposition parties can express themselves freely in a democracy,” Macron said on Tuesday, “but the other side of that is an end to violence and hate . . . The French need something else, they are tired of the crisis and of bad news.”

Although Macron is sometimes accused by his detractors of being arrogant and out of touch, he relishes walkabouts and arguments or conversations with bystanders when he travels around the country. He is notorious among his critics for having told a gardener visiting the Elysée on a cultural open day who complained about the lack of work that he could find him a job in a restaurant or hotel just by crossing the road. 

Macron is not the first French president to be targeted with violence in a public place. Nicolas Sarkozy was sometimes abused and once manhandled. And during the national day parade in July 2002, an extreme-right activist tried to shoot Jacques Chirac with a .22 rifle, but he missed and was later jailed. 

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