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.

The former Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimon, testified early in the trial for the COVID vaccination of national police and civil guards stationed in Catalonia. The then director of the Catalan Health Institute and Secretary of Public Health assured that the decision to limit the AstraZeneca vaccine to the 60 to 65 age group – whether or not they were essential workers – was a decision of the Interterritorial Health Council and "did not pose any ethical conflict" nor in the epidemiological field, because it prioritized people most vulnerable to the virus. Nevertheless, he was in favor of continuing to vaccinate all officers, because the logistics were already in place, and he communicated this to the minister Alba Vergés.

Judicial proceedings are piling up in Altafulla. In addition to the case concerning the awards to former minister Joan Ignasi Elena and former leader of Iniciativa Joan Herrera, which also involves the Commons deputy Félix Alonso and former minister Salvador Milà, now another case directly implicates the mayor, Jordi Molinera (ERC), and councilor Tomàs Serra, who was elected by Junts and remains in government as an independent after his former party left the coalition government last year. In fact, this move is what is now in the sights of the courts of El Vendrell, where an investigation has been opened following a complaint by the president of Junts in Altafulla for the alleged crimes of bribery and prevarication. In an order to which el ARA has had access, the judge summons Serra and Molinera to testify as investigated parties in this case on January 2, 2027.

New round of witnesses in the trial for allegedly "discriminating" against national police and civil guards with covid vaccines. After the commanders of both forces cleared the defendants, among whom are former ministers Josep Maria Argimon and Alba Vergés, this Monday it was the turn of other former Health directors to explain themselves. Among them, Vergés's advisor who sent a key message in the investigation of the case, in which she said: "Once again, the minister asks to stop Civil Guard and National Police. We cannot justify it. We should stop it".

The strategies of lawyers to convince popular juries, with judges who are in contact with the courts for the first time, do not only take into account how to choose the profile of the person who suits them best in each case. In large trials, they also have advisors who advise them on which evidence can best support their defense and how to present it to the jury. Sometimes they also surround themselves with investigators who work in parallel with the police so that the defense can anticipate the evidence that will be against the accused. Although the jurists consulted agree that this model is becoming increasingly widespread, it is by no means common and is used in a very small part of judicial proceedings in Catalonia. In large part, because it entails a much higher cost than a defense with a single lawyer, or a free one by appointment. "The defense in a trial works one way if you have money; if not, it works another way," summarizes the specialist in legal and forensic psychology Miquel Àngel Soria.

Just over 12 hours ago, emergency services were attending to the teenager who ended up dying from a gunshot wound to the stomach, now nothing would suggest it is the scene of a murder. As described by Loli, who has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years, Parc de la Pegaso is "an institution" of La Sagrera. Her children used to have their carnival parades in the park, "when there were boats and fish in the lake." Now, she and her neighbor Àngels – who has also lived here for five decades – comment that last night a group of young people opened fire on others in this very park, near the sports courts.

The testimony of those responsible for the covid vaccination of National Police and Civil Guard agents in Catalonia has been a cold shower for police unions that accuse former heads of the Health department of having "discriminated" against them compared to the Mossos d'Esquadra. The second day of the trial of former councilors Alba Vergés and Josep Maria Argimon focused on the statements of the commanders of these two forces who organized the vaccination of their agents stationed in Catalonia, and both stressed that they spoke daily with their interlocutor at Health, Xavier Rodríguez Guasch, about whom they said he always had a good disposition for coordination.

The trial of former health department officials for "discriminating" against police officers and civil guards in the COVID vaccination campaign will not end with prison sentences. At the start of the trial this Tuesday, the Barcelona Court has excluded from the case the crime against workers' rights that the unions were pursuing and which could have led to sentences of up to three years in prison. The Prosecutor's Office requests the disqualification for 12 years of those who led the ministry at the time and accuses them, like the police unions, of having "paralyzed" the vaccination of these agents and not prioritizing them over the general population, as they did with other emergency services. Among the figures provided by the accusers is the vaccination rate of the agents: at a time when the vaccination rate was 2.8% among civil guards and 3.6% among national police officers, it reached 77% among the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Barcelona Municipal Police.

If the death of Mango's founder, Isak Andic, it is judged as a homicide, will remain in the hands of a popular jury. The case of Begoña Gómez. These courts deal with a list of crimes including homicide and murder, but also others such as failure to assist, home invasions, and some corruption cases. The nine people who form them are not judges, but they become workers of the administration of justice for a few days to decide whether the accused is guilty or not. This means that the strategies that prosecutions and defenses use to convince these judges novellas will largely be different from those they usually exhibit when faced with professional judges. "It forces you to act much more," says a jurist. In addition, the lawyers and prosecutors in the case have the final say on who will be on the jury; hence strategies to seduce them begin even before the trial.

The classroom is filled twice every morning and twice every afternoon. They are "more or less" constant groups. The teacher explains that being in a prison, and even more so in the one for Young Offenders, leads to "a lot of mobility". "It's not easy to sustain a group, but when it happens, truly beautiful things emerge," he says. As he speaks, about a dozen boys are progressing on their projects. Some are drawing, some are painting with brushes, and others are making sculptures from cardboard sheets. Like the rest of the inmates at the Young Offenders prison, they are all adults, but under 25 years old.

The Supreme Court has set compensation of 2.5 million euros for Ahmed Tommouhi, who spent 15 years in prison, wrongly convicted because he was mistaken for another man who had committed a dozen sexual assaults and whom he physically resembled. Now justice establishes that the State will have to compensate for this error with compensation.

The relationship began with an arranged marriage in Bangladesh. The couple lived together for a few years, as agreed by both families, and they had a daughter who is now eleven years old. In 2017, the man moved to Barcelona, looked for a way to make a living, and opened a 24-hour supermarket in the Zona Franca. Five years later, the woman and the girl, who was already seven years old, also traveled to the Catalan capital to meet him. That's where the ordeal that both of them have had to endure began, terrified by the man's assaults and having to sleep inside the cold room of the supermarket's back shop while he stayed in an apartment.

The scientific committee advising the Spanish government on the management of the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak warns that the control measures taken so far are insufficient, and considers it necessary for all autonomous communities to prepare for a possible expansion of the virus. Specifically, in its monitoring report for this month of June, the State's advisors assess that the preventive actions – which are the responsibility of the Generalitat – have not been taken "with the desired intensity". Among the arguments is that an average of 363 wild boars have been hunted per week, when the estimated objective was 800 per week.

Jonathan Andic has been defending himself since the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested him as the alleged perpetrator of his father's death. Judicially, by filing a technical and extensive appeal that denies the evidence incriminating him to try to have the restrictive measures currently against him lifted, such as the passport withdrawal or the one million euro bail with which he has managed to avoid going to prison. But also, in the media, trying to reverse the "social condemnation" that his defense claims he suffered when he was arrested. Nevertheless, the judge, the Mossos, and the prosecutor in the case are all heading in the same direction: they believe there are sufficient grounds to indict him.

The investigation into the case of the baby allegedly mistreated by its parents – and who had to be hospitalized for a month – continued to advance this Friday with the testimonies of the baby's grandparents and uncles. Among those who appeared was the accused's brother, who explained to the judge a scene that the woman had recounted to him on the phone. The father, "trying to give the child a "caress would have shaken him, and she reproached him, telling him: 'You can't do that,' and he admitted it, according to sources present at the declaration. The witness, the father's brother and the baby's mother's brother-in-law, added that it was the woman who alerted him.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has opposed the appeal by which Jonathan Andic requested that the precautionary measures against him be withdrawn in the case in which he is being investigated for allegedly killing his father, Mango founder Isak Andic. In its response to the defense's appeal, the public ministry points out that there are indications in the case that "contradict" the eldest son's version of the family about "the method and circumstances" in which his father died.

The healthcare professionals at Vall d'Hebron Hospital who treated the abused infant admitted to the ICU agree that the child's injuries were not accidental and consider them consistent with child abuse. Five professionals testified this Thursday before the judge investigating the infant's parents for alleged abuse, injuries, and sexual assault. According to sources present at the testimony, these professionals stated that some of these injuries posed a life-threatening risk to the baby, who was five weeks old when admitted to the hospital and spent a month hospitalized. He is now with a foster family and his health is improving.

The mother of the abused baby who was hospitalized for a month confessed to her friends that she was considering throwing out of the house Sources present at the testimony explained that the woman made this comment to her friends in a WhatsApp message on March 9, a week before the infant, five weeks old, was admitted to the ICU. When she was already in provisional prison, the woman called one of her colleagues to confirm the exact words of the message in which she had explained it to them. This Wednesday, the court saved a copy of this chat, which could be key to the case.

Justice has rejected the lawsuit with which the Archbishop of Barcelona, Joan Josep Omella, accused a victim of pedophilia of threats. The victim had reproached him for his "inaction in reporting" ex officio the abuses he had suffered by a priest and which he himself had communicated to him in previous meetings. Up to four judges have concluded that the young man's claims do not constitute a crime of threats, as Omella had argued.

Before they could judge him, the man confessed that he posed as a police officer to humiliate other men and sexually assault a girl in a Barcelona nightclub. His partner at the time, a Municipal Police officer, admits that she covered for him and also participated in the humiliations. Their confessions have allowed them to reach an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office and avoid the trial that was scheduled for this Wednesday, in which he faced nine years in prison and she faced three. Finally, the sentence is two and a half years for him and two for her, according to the conformity agreement consulted by ARA. The agreement with the prosecution includes that they will not have to go to prison to serve these sentences on condition that they do not re-offend.