A former colleague told me not long ago that she was surprised when she heard I had a daughter because she'd never seen me as "a reproductive man." I laughed. It didn't seem like an insult, but rather a description. And, in fact, that possibility had always been there. The idea of ​​having children amused me, but until recently it was an abstract and distant concept.

The Barcelona Prosecutor's Office has entrusted the new unit for crimes against vulnerable groups, where the prosecutors handling the Guardia Urbana crime and the Dani Alves case work, with opening an investigation following complaints against Ramon Flecha, emeritus professor at the University of Barcelona. This decision comes after the university launched an internal investigation following complaints of sexual harassment, psychological coercion, mistreatment, and exploitation linked to the professor and his research group, CREA. will send a preliminary report to the Prosecutor's OfficeAccording to a statement released by the Barcelona Provincial Prosecutor's Office, the unit investigating the case is the "Specialized Section for Violent Crimes against Children and Adolescents, as well as other vulnerable groups and complex criminal profiles." Prosecutors Félix Martín and Elisabeth Jiménez work in this section, as has been reported. The Vanguard And ARA has been able to confirm this. Martín is president of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors and has handled high-profile cases such as the Urban Guard murder case, in which the municipal police officers Rosa Peral and Albert López received a resounding sentence for the murder of a colleague. Jiménez brought the sexual assault complaint against footballer Dani Alves, who was initially convicted, although the High Court of Justice of Catalonia overturned the conviction. He ended up overturning the sentenceThe section specializing in crimes against vulnerable groups will work with a team from the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), including members of the Sexual Assault Unit and agents from the Central Area of ​​Analysis and Intelligence Development, who have experience investigating cult-like organizations. The University of Barcelona sent the information it had gathered to the Public Prosecutor's Office even though its internal investigation was not yet complete. However, the preliminary report already pointed to the existence of a "high-control coercive group." Specifically, sixteen people had reported the group for having sexual relations "in a context of clear hierarchical inequality" with "students, interns, doctoral candidates, or subordinates." Furthermore, the UB also He provisionally suspended emeritus professor Ramon Flecha from his dutiesAnother honorary professor and two other professors he did not identify. He announced that he would join the case as a private prosecutor if the Public Prosecutor's Office ultimately decides to file a complaint or lawsuit.

The CREA scandal is not new to the ARA newspaper: we have been following it for nine years. Since June 2016, when we published the article "A research group at the University of Barcelona has been denounced, accused of acting like a cult."We have reported on all the latest developments in a case that persistently calls into question the effectiveness of university protocols and control mechanisms, as well as the judicial system itself.

Rosalía owns a magnificent house on a quiet street in Barcelona's Poblenou neighborhood; naturally, as is typical in Poblenou, it's a renovated warehouse. It boasts 117 square meters, exposed beams, large windows, and a meticulously designed interior featuring high-quality materials. At least, that's what dozens of news articles suggest, with headlines like "Metal Beams and Minimalism: This is Rosalía's Impressive House in the Heart of Barcelona" and "This is the House Rosalía Stays in Whenever She Comes to Spain: An Urban Refuge Created with Industrial Motifs." The articles list details of the property, explain some characteristics of the neighborhood, and some even venture to link the house's style to the singer's current artistic phase. Almost none cite their sources. But all these details fit with a project that never came to fruition.

Aid worker and politician Víctor Terradellas died this Sunday at the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona, aged 62, after suffering a stroke on Friday at the farmhouse where he lived in Cornudella de Montsant. A staunch separatist, he was the founder and leader of the NGO IGMAN Acció Solidària and secretary of foreign relations for Convergència. In fact, he played a key role in the Process, both during the Artur Mas and Carles Puigdemont eras. Through aid work and activism, he built an extensive network of international contacts that he used to promote the recognition of Catalonia and the independence movement, which became controversial following the the so-called Russian plot. Terradellas leaves behind a wife, the veteran aid worker Judit Aixalà, and two children.

The University of Barcelona has provisionally suspended from his duties the emeritus professor of the University of Barcelona Ramon Flecha, recently accused of having sexual relations "in a context of clear hierarchical inequality" with "students, interns, doctoral students, or subordinates." This was announced in a press release, which also stated that it will launch an internal investigation, led by a "commission of experts" made up of three specialists "with specific training in gender-based violence and institutional harassment." At least two of them will be women.

The Governmenthas suspended "as a precautionary measure"The Career of Excellence award granted this week, within the framework of the Serra Húnter program, to Marta Soler, professor of sociology at the University of Barcelona (UB). Soler is the director of CREA, a research group controversial due to allegations by former members who in 2004 and 2016They declared that it was an abusive group–complaints that endedarchiving– and because its founder, also professor Ramon Flecha, has recently been accused in a letter to the rectorate ofhaving sex "in a context of clear hierarchical inequality"with "students, fellows, doctoral students, or subordinates."

A letter from a group of fourteen people sent to the rector of the University of Barcelona, ​​​​Joan Guardia, denounces the professor – now emeritus – Ramon Flecha to have sexual relations "in a context of clear hierarchical inequality" with "students, interns, doctoral students or subordinates", according to a joint publication by RTVE Noticias, Ràdio 4, Eldiario.es and InfoLibre. This same professor has been legally pursuing the newspaper ARA for five years for having published, in 2016, that his research group, CREA (Community of Research on Excellence for All), had been denounced, accusing it of acting like a cult, a complaint that was eventually shelved after a year.

The Civil Guard report unravels a series of audio recordings extracted from Koldo García's cell phone, revealing the conspiracy of three PSOE leaders—Koldo himself, José Luis Ábalos, and Santos Cerdán—to allegedly manipulate public contracts and collect illegal commissions from companies. ARA has had access to these recordings, which were held by the UCO (University of Cordoba), and we explain the most relevant details below.

Have you tried? ChatGPT: You've asked him what he knows about you, if Catalonia will ever be independent, if machines will end up dominating the world, and you've even generated some images. And it's entertaining, but that's it, you think. You're not in marketing, you don't have a website to fill with automatically generated content, and you're not a criminal planning a massive scam. And you wonder if this artificial intelligence trend is of any use in real life. Well, yes, it can be useful. It has many possibilities, many more than I'm able to take advantage of, but I'll tell you what I use it for in my day-to-day life, in which it helps me.

The journalist and writer Xavier Borràs Calvo (Barcelona, ​​​​1956) died this Friday, April 25, at the age of 68, in Vall d'en Bas, in La Garrotxa. Borràs had a long career in the media: he worked in Digital Nation, Tele/eXpres, Canigou, Barcelona Diary, Catalonia Radio, The March of Catalonia and The TriangleHe also directed the magazines The lightning bolt and Userda, as well as The Independent of Grace and the digital one EcoDiario.

Enric Pérez waits at the foot of the 144-metre slab of concrete, aluminium and glass that is Glòries tower in Barcelona with his cell phone in his pocket and the recording application running. He is a little nervous. He has to meet a man who says he belongs to Spain's Department of Homeland Security, who in one call has shown that he knows too many things about him and wants to turn him into a confidant. Pérez is 24 years old, still studying, and from the start he contacts the ARA and the magazine Directa. It is Wednesday, March 30 and he is certain he wants to gather information and go public on these attempts to get him to spy on the independence movement.

The use of spyware against pro-independence leaders is not new: it was already known it had been used against Roger Torrent when he was Speaker. But the so-called Catalangate became a scandal on Monday, following an investigation by Citizen Lab, a group of cybersecurity experts at the University of Toronto, which was made public in conjunction with an extensive report in The New Yorker. According to this research, the phone of Catalan president Pere Aragonès, as well as those of former presidents Quim Torra and Artur Mas and the devices of over 60 Catalan politicians, activists, lawyers and journalists have been the target of a cyberespionage campaign using Israeli company NSO's Pegasus programme. Some of them have also been victims of a different spyware –also Israeli– called Candiru. Citizen Lab concludes that Catalangate is the largest case of cyberespionage they have documented.

"It's OK, just as there are people who don't want animals, there are landlords who don't want immigrants... or children, which we have also come across at times". This is one of the answers sociologist Ariadna Fitó, a professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona who also works at Broll cooperative, found when she offered a flat for rent in Barcelona's Eixample district to 350 letting agents over the phone. She wasn't really offering it, it was just an experiment, but when she told the real estate agents that she didn't want immigrants, 62.3% accepted the request without reservations. A further 23.7% replied that they would not rule them out, but that with the data they would give her she could do it herself. The study, commissioned by Barcelona City Council, has shown that 86% of real estate agencies accept or facilitate racism in renting.

The perpetrators of the cyberattack that disabled the computer services of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) 30 days ago have once again shown signs of life. A few hours ago, the dark web page of PYSA, the group responsible for the ransomware (digital kidnapping software) used to carry out the cyber attack, published a list of companies and organisations they threaten to make public the information obtained in their latest cyber attacks. The UAB is on the list, and they warn that "coming soon" they will publish the information they have. The list also includes a date: Wednesday 10 November, which could indicate when the publication will take place, if the threat is real.

The ARA newspaper has been able to access a list of the documents affected by the computer attack at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) which contains more than 650,000 folders and files. The attack has been perpetrated with a ransomware - a malicious software that encrypts the victim's documents and demands a ransom to be able to access them again - called PYSA. According to the computer security consultant José Nicolás Castellano, and as the ARA has been able to contrast, the attackers are demanding 60 bitcoins (about three million euros) to release the hijacked files, but UAB sources say they have no record of this because, following the recommendations of the Cybersecurity Agency of Catalonia, they have not contacted the attackers and have no intention of paying.