The complex operation that this Sunday must evacuate the passengers and part of the crew of the MVHondius has involved great diplomatic efforts to coordinate the actions of the different countries, but also to allay the fear of hantavirus and the reluctance for the cruise ship to approach the Canary coast. Concerns that have also served to fuel political attacks. The outbreak totals six positive cases – including the three fatalities – so the ship will arrive in port without any new infections having been confirmed.

Health and emergency authorities are working against the clock to prepare for the arrival of the MV Hondius this weekend in the Canary Islands. The luxury cruise ship, the focus of the hantavirus outbreak, will anchor in the port of La Granadilla, in Tenerife, and from there passengers and crew will be transported to their home countries. In fact, the Spanish government has assured that no one will disembark without prior confirmation that their plane is ready to take off. On board are passengers and crew of 23 different nationalities, from within and outside the European Union, and since Thursday meetings have been held to also organize repatriations.

The Barcelona Court has released the mother of the baby who was allegedly mistreated and sexually assaulted in Barcelona without bail. In contrast, in the case of the father, the justice system has decided to keep him in provisional prison. One of the key elements in the investigation has been the content of the couple's mobile phones and computers. Before the child was hospitalized, the woman had searched for information related to the baby's health status, and about "the distress she herself felt regarding her relationship" because the man "did not treat the baby well".

The Prosecutor's Office has "no doubt" about the "unequivocal evidence" against the parents of the baby allegedly mistreated and raped in Barcelona. Sources from the Prosecutor's Office stated this after Tuesday's hearing at the Barcelona Court, where the defense of the child's mother distanced herself from the father's to try to get him out of prison. Both the public prosecutor and the private prosecution from the Generalitat have requested that the couple remain in provisional prison. In contrast, the lawyers defending the man and the woman separately have requested that they be allowed to await trial at liberty.

"Since the accident, I couldn't stop thinking about how he was, because I didn't know what had happened to him, whether he would live or not." Carlos Roberto Hernández recalls that the car windows shattered into pieces and scattered around him. Before he had time to wonder what had happened, he saw a person fall next to his car, on Carrer Mallorca in Barcelona, right in front of the Sagrada Família. The one who had fallen was Javier, who was on a motorcycle, and he collided with his car, which had braked suddenly. The motorcyclist broke three finger tendons and needed up to four operations after the accident. Even today, he hasn't been able to return to his job as a plumber and doubts if he will ever be able to work again.

The director of the Puig de les Basses prison, Jordi Oliveras, has resigned from his post following the suicide of three inmates at the penitentiary center since the beginning of the year. The last one was this Monday, when a prisoner who was in isolation took his own life. The Department of Justice and Democratic Quality reported this Friday that in the coming days there will be "a change" at the head of the Figueres prison and a new director will be appointed. According to the department, the director until now has placed his position at the disposal of the Secretariat of Penal Measures and Reintegration and its head, Elena Pérez, has accepted the resignation.

The prison system's response to the murder of a cook at Mas d'Enric has not satisfied all workers. In fact, it has fueled protests from some prison professionals. Two years after the crime, some workers denounce a "sustained discrimination" compared to their colleagues, security officers. Those protesting are staff from the same public company where Núria López worked when an inmate killed her and then committed suicide. Now, the inter-center committee – which represents the workers of this company throughout Catalonia – threatens a strike if the Generalitat does not agree before next Tuesday to give them the same improvements that Interior officials and other professionals in the sector have received.

The Barcelona Court of Appeal has ordered the reopening of the investigation into the fire at the Piera mosque in the early hours of July 12, 2025, to identify those responsible for the blaze. The incident, which coincided in time with racist riots in the Murcian municipality of Torre Pacheco,, occurred when the mosque was only awaiting one last municipal permit to open. Although the perpetrators of the fire have not yet been found, the private prosecution brought by the Islamic community of Piera maintains that it was a hate crime.

The extraordinary regularization of migrants that in recent days has left Although specialists criticize the lack of transparency regarding how many people are interned, in 2024 a total of 1,863 people passed through these detention centres, according to the latest report from the Jesuit Migrant Service. Among them were 85 women and 853 applicants for international protection, and almost half were not repatriated, according to the entity. The same entity denounced in the report the lack of public information to periodically know data on internment.

The Jardí de Granollers School, where the teacher arrested for possessing over 100,000 child pornography files worked, has stated that he will not be reinstated. "He is completely prohibited from any form of contact, in person or digital," adds the center in a message sent to families, explaining that they never had any indication or suspicion about the teacher, nor any complaint against him.

Pepe, the man in the wheelchair who killed a thief in Barcelona's Bon Pastor neighborhood, will be able to await trial in freedom. This Thursday a judge agreed to release him provisionally, as his defense requested, and this afternoon he left Brians 1 prison, where he was admitted on April 7 and spent nine days incarcerated.

Every day, people who have already served their sentences are released from prison, and this is usually not news, unlike the release this Thursday of an inmate from the Ponent penitentiary center. He was already known in the 80s for his robberies and has spent half his life behind bars. He served a sentence for killing two people, including an agent while fleeing a robbery, and also for shooting an ex-policeman who died months later. After five months of freedom, he returned to prison for a robbery, and this week he regains his freedom. Now, the workers who have treated him in prison have warned that they see a risk of him reoffending, among other reasons because he has not wanted to follow any treatment program.

A witness in the case investigating the alleged mistreatment of a baby by a couple has testified that the man was shaking the infant's crib violently. According to legal sources consulted by ARA, this is the woman with whom they shared a room at Vall d'Hebron Hospital, where the medical staff referred them after they had visited four other health centers in the days before the couple's arrest. The same woman alerted hospital staff that the child was not being well cared for, all just hours before the child abuse protocol was activated.

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A group of six specialists in home burglaries will sit on the dock at the Barcelona Court starting this Monday. They are accused of a dozen raids in which they allegedly used different techniques to open doors, leaving almost no trace. According to the Public Prosecutor's description, they operated with a "scrupulous division of roles" where some were "experts in selecting targets" by marking or watching apartments, others opened doors with specific machinery or by creating false keys, acting "like a kind of craftsman," and finally there was an "operational group" that entered the home.

A few hours after the jailing of Pepe, the man in a wheelchair who killed another when he tried to rob him, some neighbors of the Bon Pastor neighborhood in Barcelona claimed that he should be released and justified that he had only defended himself. Pending the investigation's progress to clarify what exactly happened, legal experts consulted by ARA agree on the complexity of applying the criminal figure of self-defense, which can eliminate all responsibility in a homicide. "Whether Pepe acted in self-defense or not will be the star topic of the trial, which will be held with a popular jury," anticipates criminal lawyer Olga Arderiu.

The Bon Pastor neighborhood of Barcelona is still in shock over a crime that shook the community five days ago. En Pepe, a man with mobility and respiratory problems, allegedly stabbed a young man who had stolen a chain from him, and the thief ended up dying. The man has already been taken into provisional prison, a judicial decision that has outraged part of the neighborhood, which justifies it as self-defense and denounces that En Pepe is in a delicate state of health.

The defense of the baby's father, who is being investigated for alleged abuse and sexual assault by his parents, has requested new medical tests to determine the origin of the injuries for which he remains hospitalized. His lawyer, Montse Antolino, explained in statements to ARA that she has presented the investigating judge with a medical report signed by a private physician stating that the man carries a gene related to muscular dystrophy and collagen deficiency. The defense now requests clarification as to whether the baby also carries this gene and if it could be the cause or trigger of the injuries.

15% of judge and magistrate positions in Catalonia are vacant. Of the 871 positions, 132 are unassigned, in addition to other circumstances such as medical leave or permits. Therefore, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has requested this Wednesday that the Ministry of Justice and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) urgently convene extraordinary competitive examinations, beyond the average of 120 annual positions typically offered for the entire State. Given the political announcements to create more judicial positions –91 for Catalonia this year– the president of the TSJC, Mercè Caso, has demanded that what is needed is more judges to fill these posts: "Otherwise, we will have chairs, but not enough judges to fill them".

In the coming weeks, 34 Supreme Court magistrates will decide whether anyone can judicially intervene against the decision of an adult person who has medical approval to receive euthanasia. The Prosecutor's Office has already conveyed its position to the court: it believes that close family can do so as long as they have an "intense bond" with the affected person, not just a biological relationship. The response that the full Supreme Court eventually gives will set a precedent in a debate that has been open in the courts for a few months and has gained prominence especially with the case of Noelia Castillo, the young woman from Garraf who received assisted death at the end of March, after 20 months of judicial proceedings. The case that the Supreme Court will hear is another, that of Francesc: a 55-year-old man who, after three strokes and a heart attack, suffers serious sequelae in his mobility and speech. Since July 2024, his euthanasia has had judicial approval as well as medical approval and that of the Commission of Guarantee and Evaluation of Catalonia (CGAC), but it has been stalled by a judicial appeal from his father. In fact, his case is what motivated the resolution of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJC) in which the magistrates validated that a family can take an euthanasia approved by doctors to court. The Generalitat, which represents Francesc's interests, appealed against this resolution of the TSJC and, therefore, the Supreme Court will now review it after evaluating the arguments of the administration and those of the Public Prosecutor's Office.