The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested an eighteen-year-old man this Monday in Soses (Segrià) because he is allegedly related to the murder of a 75-year-old woman. The victim was found dead on Saturday night in a cornfield in the same municipality in the province of Lleida. The police located the victim after receiving an alert the same night reporting the disappearance of a woman in that town.

It was the late 18th century and the English chemist Joseph Priestley made a discovery that revolutionized medicine. Specifically, he thought of a way to feel it less: he discovered a new gas, nitrous oxide, which had analgesic properties and could relieve pain. It was one of the first gases used to anesthetize a patient before surgery. In fact, it is still used in childbirth today. However, without knowing it, Priestley also revolutionized the parties of the time: the elites began to try nitrous oxide and discovered that, besides being a good analgesic, in small quantities it produced a feeling of euphoria. It became a fashion at high society parties. The laughing gas had just been born.

Last week was critical, one of the most complicated the Bombers de la Generalitat have experienced, and it has confirmed that it will be a complex summer of fires in Catalonia. All fires start with a spark that can ignite in many ways. By lightning, wiring, a plowing machine, a cigarette butt, or an arsonist who puts flammable liquid in the forest to burn. The reality is that Catalonia, as a Mediterranean territory with a lot of vegetation, has always been prone to fires. According to data from the Agents Rurals accessed by ARA, in the last forty years 14,410 forest fires have been declared — not including agricultural fires — up to July 6, 2026. How many of these were caused by human activity?

First, he says a name that she doesn't recognize at first, and then he takes out his mobile and shows her a photograph of a woman. "Oh, yes, I know who it is, I haven't seen her. Is she one of the missing or is she dead?". This conversation is repeated over and over among the neighbors of the municipalities most affected by the Almeria fire, especially in Bédar, where the thirteen fatalities of the fire were from. As the hours pass, however, they begin to discover that the two questions have the same answer: yes, she was one of the missing and she is dead.

Everything has changed in the space of three hours. At noon, Bédar, the municipality most affected by the Almeria fire where the twelve fatal victims lived, was a lifeless town. All the shutters were down, only emergency service vehicles went up and down, there were only four counted neighbors sitting on a bar terrace. Perched on top of a mountain, with the sea in the background, Bédar is a collection of white houses, most of which are spotless after the fire, which has indeed burned and blackened all the surrounding vegetation. Bédar also consists of dozens of scattered houses, some of authentic luxury, most also well-preserved even though the fire surrounded them.

Just by the smell of burning and the intensity and heat of the wind, Andrew knew they had a huge problem. He had been a firefighter all his life in Australia, in Perth, a territory that suffers fires similar to those in the Mediterranean climate. Now he enjoys retirement with his wife, Anna, in a small white house with a small swimming pool and a cozy terrace in Los Gallardos, in the province of Almeria. In fact, Andrew was one of the first people to notice the smell of smoke. He was working in his garden, about 150 meters from the point where the tragic fire started. "That fire had to be stopped, or at least prevented from reaching our houses," he recalls.

On a roundabout on the N-340 road, considered the longest in all of Spain, there is a dilapidated and burnt-out restaurant. It is in the municipality of Los Gallardos, in the province of Almeria. This Saturday, early in the morning, agents from the Civil Guard and the Environment Department of the Junta de Andalucía are analyzing the surroundings of this building, which was already abandoned before the fire hit it. They explain that this is the exact spot where the tragic fire began. And how did it start? They respond that everything points to a spark from electrical wiring, even though the restaurant in question had been closed for years.

"The land will recover. When it rains, when the ash becomes fertilizer. The town will recover. When all the evacuees return home, when we rebuild what has been destroyed. But they will not return. I loved them." Emilia is the pharmacist of Bédar, the town most affected by the Almería fires, the municipality from which dozens of people fled the fire and twelve of them could not escape. She knew them, all of them. Especially a "wonderful" couple, Ana and Pedro, whom she considered "family". "They had the worst of luck," she recounts, still emotional.

Everything is dark except for the sky, which is an orange color leaning towards red. But the sun is neither rising nor setting. It's a quarter past four in the morning, and we are on the road leading to Lubrín, the Andalusian municipality towards which the tragic forest fire in Almeria, which has already left 12 dead and 23 people unaccounted for. Intense tongues of fire burn ever closer. The smoke has forced the evacuation of a town that is awake, judging by the lit windows peeking out. Animals, cats, rabbits, wild boars, and birds are visible and moving disoriented. Blue lights are glimpsed in the distance, but the uneasy calm prevails.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating a new crime in Catalonia. A young man died stabbed this Thursday morning in Cubelles, in the Garraf region. The events took place around 11 a.m. near the town's cemetery. According to police sources, the Mossos have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of the crime. The body was found lying on the sidewalk next to the cemetery car park.

A month ago, on June 3rd, the body of a woman appeared floating in the Segre River near Lleida. According to sources consulted by this newspaper, her death is being investigated as a criminal death. That is, as a homicide. After weeks trying to identify the victim, the Mossos d'Esquadra finally decided this Thursday morning to make public an image of the woman generated with artificial intelligence and to ask for citizen collaboration.

At night, in Barcelona's Eixample district, a young man approaches a man and asks for a light. A companion of the young man is filming. Comments can be heard such as: "Hit him already, hit him already". Suddenly, the young man slaps the man hard in the face and, just as suddenly, four friends of the young man appear and hit him and kick him.

Catalonia is experiencing a tragic script that repeats itself every day. While the Generalitat Firefighters fight throughout the night and morning against fires that started the day before, new fires break out at midday, coinciding with the hottest time of day. It happened on Monday, it happened on Tuesday, and it happened this Wednesday. The extinguishing corps was working to stabilize the Sentmenat fire after controlling those in Baix Empordà and Anoia, and three new fires have broken out: in Gavà, Alt Camp, and Bages, which were managed to be stabilized despite the fact that the latter two had caused great concern initially.

Inspector David Borrell, head of the Generalitat Firefighters, comments as soon as he picks up the phone that they have just declared a fire in Gavà and that he will be able to talk as long as it doesn't get complicated. It is his routine of the last few days, leading a Firefighter corps that has been facing simultaneous daily fires for a week. The afternoon, again, was very complicated.

It was early morning, around five o'clock, and the truck of the German heavy metal band Accept was returning from performing at Santa Coloma de Gramenet, as part of the Barcelona Rock Fest festival, and was heading towards Germany. The driver stopped at a rest area on the AP-7, near Llinars del Vallès, to handle some bureaucratic matters. According to the festival, four men armed with iron bars tried to steal everything they could. One of them even tried to enter the driver's cabin, which he did not succeed in doing. According to police sources, the Mossos d'Esquadra have already opened an investigation.

They called themselves Los 300, but there were many fewer. They posted videos singing songs about the strength of their group, lyrics that also sought to attract new members. They also published images of fights, assaults, weapons, and the symbolism that united them. They met in the squares and parks of Sant Martí, Sant Andreu, or Nou Barris, first to commit anti-social acts, but, over time, the level of violence increased, to the point of committing assaults with machetes or swords. They also dealt drugs to finance themselves as a group, imposing rules and tests to become one of them and recruiting minors to turn them into their executioners. Over the months, they became a youth gang, one of the most active in Barcelona.

It was a few minutes before six in the morning when some residents of Ferran Puig street, in the Putxet neighborhood of Barcelona, heard at least three detonations. At 5:52 a.m., the first call came into the 112 emergency number reporting a possible shooting at this point in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, next to Parc del Turó del Putxet.

The day has been long and complicated, with hundreds of Generalitat firefighters spread throughout the country, with new fires that have further complicated the extinction of the old ones and with accumulated fatigue, but the day has ended with good forecasts. After a new day of simultaneous fires, the Firefighters have managed to bring the first major fire of the year under control, the one in Les Gavarres, which began to burn last Friday and has affected more than 2,000 hectares and about twenty houses. The fire in Anoia, which forced 30,000 people into lockdown on Monday – one urbanization remains under lockdown – and has affected 500 hectares, is also stabilized, as is a fire that broke out this Tuesday at midday in Segarra, which had great potential, could have been very worrying, but which has been contained within 100 hectares. The forecast is to be able to control the fires this Wednesday morning.

The Generalitat Firefighters have long have a web page where all the fires they are working on can be consulted live. This Monday afternoon, no less than fifty simultaneous fires were active. Some stabilized after very tough hours – and little rest for the staff – like the one in Bisbal d'Empordà, and others active and worrying, like the one in Sentmenat or Anoia. The scenario of simultaneous fires is always one that causes firefighters the most anguish, as they face the possibility, however distant it may be, that they may not reach all the fires or may not be able to allocate the necessary resources to all of them.

The big question that the judicial investigation into the death of Isak Andic is trying to answer is whether he fell accidentally or if someone pushed him. The only person with whom he was that day in Collbató was his son, Jonathan Andic, currently the only one investigated for the death of the founder of Mango. The case, however, must also analyze what motivations could lead a son to kill his father. And, if we talk about motive, the economic issue is a fundamental part of the case: the judge of Martorell insists that Jonathan Andic had an "obsession with money," that he wanted his father to give him an inheritance while he was alive, and that at the time of the events Isak Andic was making arrangements to create a foundation with his inheritance.