Drivers traveling on the AP-7 near Montornès del Vallès could hardly have imagined the scene they were about to witness. It was a sequence straight out of a film: several vehicles blocking the highway, hooded and armed men, and a person forcibly dragged from his car in the middle of the road.
The Civil Guard said Saturday that it had arrested a 41-year-old man in Granada suspected of ongoing fraud, identity theft and forgery of public and private documents in Operation Larberik. He is believed to have defrauded more than 350,000 euros from elderly and disabled people, many of whom lived alone.
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said Friday that Francisco Javier M., alias ‘El Trompas’, arrested in Mexico over the murder of Spanish university student Claudia Tacoronte, has reportedly confessed to the crime to authorities there.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will explain his handling of the Ceuta crisis in the United States next week and defend the government’s migration policy before the United Nations during his participation in the General Assembly.
Vox filed a non-legislative proposal in Congress on Friday urging the Spanish government to deny visas to Moroccan nationals until the “neighboring country” recognizes the Spanish status of Ceuta, Melilla and other territories in North Africa.
An inmate at Quatre Camins prison in La Roca del Vallès, Barcelona, has allegedly died after being assaulted by his cellmate overnight Thursday. The Mossos d'Esquadra have opened an investigation to clarify what happened and determine the exact circumstances of the death.
Mexican authorities arrested Francisco Javier, known as ‘El Trompas,’ on Thursday over the alleged killing of 21-year-old Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte. The young woman died after being stabbed last Saturday in Cuautla, Morelos, where she was attending the National Traditional Medicine Fair.
The weekend will begin with much more stable weather across much of Spain, although the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) is still monitoring the southeast and Balearic Islands, where heavy showers and thunderstorms may occur.
The transfer of migrants staying on Trampolín and Benítez beaches to the new reception facility at the port of Ceuta began Friday amid running and moments of tension. Some tried to break through the police cordon to reach facilities with room for around 1,800 people as quickly as possible, while more than 4,000 are estimated to remain in both settlements.
Spain welcomed 12.3 million international air passengers in August, a 5.5% increase from the same month last year. Europe accounted for 85.7% of total passenger traffic, up 5.7% year on year. Arrivals from the Americas represented 5.8% of the total, rising 3.9%, while passengers from Asia increased by 2.8%.
Florentino Pérez will travel to Ceuta this Friday in a visit filled with symbolism for Real Madrid. The club president will lead a delegation that will also include José Martínez ‘Pirri’, the club’s honorary president and a Ceuta native, and Emilio Butragueño, director of Institutional Relations. The delegation will be received by the president of the Autonomous City, Juan Jesús Vivas.
The investigation into the Leire case continues to reveal how Leire Díez’s travel and access to the PSOE headquarters were managed. Recordings of questioning involving two Ferraz employees now show that both acknowledged before Judge Santiago Pedraz that they arranged tickets and parking spaces for Díez on the instructions of then-Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán. The trips arranged included one to Zaragoza.
Long before tarot readings became a television genre of their own, Conchita Hurtado was a familiar face on Spain’s biggest TV sets. Nieves Herrero, Isabel Gemio, Ana Rosa Quintana and, years later, Jorge Javier Vázquez shared the screen with one of television’s best-known psychics. Hurtado has died at 90, bringing to a close a career that began with the arrival of private broadcasters and continued virtually into the Sálvame era.
Heavy rain and storms will shape the weather this Thursday, September 17, in the Balearic Islands and southeastern mainland Spain, where rainfall could be very heavy and even torrential in coastal areas, according to Aemet. The weather conditions have also prompted the suspension of classes in parts of the Region of Murcia, the Valencian Community and Andalusia.
Spain's National Court has temporarily halted plans to set up a migrant camp at the port of Ceuta, with capacity for 1,700 people, while it reviews the government order authorizing its launch.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accused PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo on Wednesday of having “on-and-off patriotism, pure window dressing” over the migration crisis in Ceuta. Feijóo responded by saying he should “stop asking for more patience because it has run out” in the autonomous city.
Spain faces a sharp change in weather this Wednesday, with a notable drop in temperatures in the north and strong or severe storms in the east and the Balearic Islands.
Spain will see a stable, hot Tuesday with mostly clear skies across much of the country. Very strong cierzo gusts will hit the Ebro Valley in the afternoon, while temperatures will remain high in the Tagus, Guadiana, Guadalquivir and Ebro valleys, as well as in the Canary Islands, where haze will also affect the eastern islands, according to Aemet.
The CSIF union has asked the Ministry for Public Function to grant an extraordinary financial allowance to all public employees working amid the crisis in Ceuta, recognizing these professionals’ work and compensating for the “effort” they have been making since late July.
The PSOE has reduced its lead over the PP by 2.4 percentage points compared with last July, when it led by 7.9 points. Following the migration crisis in Ceuta, the Socialists lose two points in voting intention, while the Popular Party gains four-tenths.
