FACT-CHECK: Sexual Assaults Have Gone Down in Almería but Not Crime as a Whole

In the control session of the Government, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, referred to the crime rate of both Spain and Almeria after the deputy of Vox Rocío de Meer read several headlines on crimes committed in recent days. “Do you know that crime has been reduced in the last year by 3% in Spain as a whole, but also in Almería?” Marlaska said on May 21 in Congress (min. 1:36:04). Second, he said that “sexual assaults in A…