It’s a bit of misdemeanour, the term ‘Costa Del Crime’ falsely leads people in to believing this part of southern Spain as an unsavoury place to holiday. In fact it the name was given to the region in the eighties in reference to the many British criminals who have found a little haven here.
In Puerto Banus the sun beams down on luxury yachts and fast cars, Rolls-Royces, Mercedes, BMWs, and the owners sip on Champagne at the quayside, in the restaurants and upmarket cafés.
While many are legitimate businessman, enjoying the spoils of their prosperity, this used to also be partially made up of a criminal underworld. Yet Britain had nearly 230 known criminals hiding out in Spain, many located around the Puerto Banus area, and in other vistas of the Costa Del Sol.
With them they brought their own self contained syndicate of crime, with British and Irish and Russian gangs jostling for territory, in a lucrative drug trade, constituted mainly of Cocaine sales.
Yet the days of London’s gangsters in luxury villas are mostly over, with many crooks extradited and charged in their own countries, this sleazier side to the Costa Del Sol, ‘The Costa Del Crime’, are widely over.
On the other side of the scale the Costa Del Sol is a mostly safe are for tourists, unaffected by the annals of organised crime. Yet as with any popular tourist destination, it is not uncommon to fall victim of petty crime, and burglaries and robberies are not unheard of in the Costa Del Sol.
Now both tourists and renters of holiday Costa Del Sol villas will be pleased to hear about Spanish authorities new plans to help travellers that are affected by crime. The newly opened Servicio de Atención al Turista Extranjero (SATE), will be offering its assistance to tourists who find themselves in the unfortunate position of being robbed.
It is a service that is designed specifically for travellers and will aid them with quick turnaround in dealing with their problems, and also offers counselling and credit card cancellation as required.
The main office for the service will be in the Costa Del Sol as the busiest tourist region of Spain, the headquarters for SATE will be in the tourist office, with other branches located in regional police stations. Here officers will have specifically trained for dealing with tourist issues to attend any
victims of petty or violent crime.
This project comes to head as Costa Del Sol continues its stronghold of Spanish tourism with Costa Del Sol villas being an encouraging prospect for British travellers on a tight budget.
With the clearing up of the organised crime scene in Southern Spain, this new movement serves to help clean up the lower side of crime in the Costa Del Sol. Protecting tourist interests serves as high priority to Southern Spain, as local authorities try to shun the ominous title ‘Costa Del Crime’, which has become associated with the area.
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