A phone call interrupts the conversation, but it no longer leaves her "desperate," as it did a few months ago. "They keep calling, but now I answer the phone calmly and tell them that I am exonerated," says Lisa Manresa. As she explains it, she breaks down the amounts that ended up becoming an unaffordable debt: 14,000 euros for her husband's dental work, 15,000 for the car, and 72,000 euros pending on the mortgage she shared with her ex-partner, the expenses associated with her eldest daughter's borderline personality disorder, who is 30... When she could no longer keep up with the payments, the accumulated debt had climbed to 208,000 euros.

Lucía has been at the Els Til·lers juvenile center for nine months, the only facility in the juvenile justice system for girls in Catalonia. She turned 18 in January, but she will finish at the center the internment that was imposed on her when she was still a minor. She asserts that living at the center "is not as bad as they paint it": "It is not like a prison, here at the end of the day we are girls".

The former president of the Parliament Laura Borràs will be able to avoid entering prison on the condition of taking a 25-hour course on corruption prevention in public administration. Borràs was initially sentenced to four and a half years in prison and a total disqualification of thirteen years for prevarication and document forgery for splitting contracts when she directed the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC).

With the Catalan coast and pre-coastal areas still recovering from the effects of the weekend's downpour, the storm has returned to punish Barcelona and its surroundings this Monday with another extremely strong storm that took everyone by surprise and at times created truly dangerous situations. The Minister of the Interior herself, Núria Parlon, has acknowledged that the situation caught them off guard because, although a situation of atmospheric instability was forecast, an episode of this magnitude was not expected. In addition to numerous ravages, the downpours have left two people missing, whom emergency teams continue to search for.

The Barcelona Court acquits Alba Vergés and Josep Maria Argimon. The court that judged the two former Health ministers has exonerated them of the accusation that hung over them: "discriminating" against national police and civil guards in the COVID vaccination campaign and vaccinating the Mossos d'Esquadra faster than them. The ruling, to which ARA has had access, states that the Health Department prioritized health criteria, especially age, and also acquits the rest of the former department officials who sat in the dock: Marc Ramentol, Adrià Comella, and Xavier Rodríguez.

Granollers has taken the worst of the storm this Monday. The capital of the Vallès Oriental region has accumulated 343 liters since Saturday night, and just between midnight and ten o'clock this Monday morning, the rain left more than 100 liters there. All of this has caused a critical scenario, with the Congost river at its limit, many streets flooded, and even two sinkholes on the road near the courthouse that forced the temporary evacuation of two buildings. "It was chaos; in 10 minutes everything was flooded. Two more minutes and my car would have been stuck at the roundabout," says Glòria Ruiz, owner of the Destaca dry cleaners, which is right at the roundabout that gives access to the South beltway of Granollers and which was flooded by the torrential rains.

Prosecutor's Office warning regarding delinquency among minors. The chief prosecutor of Catalonia, Francisco Bañeres, explained this Friday that crimes committed by minors increased last year by 4.5%. Among these, the 17% increase in robbery crimes with violence or intimidation stands out particularly.

The man investigated for serious abuse of his few-week-old baby has excused himself in court by saying he did not harm him voluntarily, and has opened the door to having harmed him without realizing it. "I am not aware of having harmed him," he said in a two-hour statement at the court that is investigating both him and the baby's mother for sexual assault, abuse, serious injury, and attempted homicide, because the injuries reached the point of posing a risk to life. At the same time, the man has exculpated the woman—from whom he has not divorced, but whom he referred to as his ex-partner—and has ruled out that she intentionally harmed the child. Both were arrested on March 18, and since then, the man has been in provisional prison, while the woman was released on provisional liberty in May. The man's defense will request his release again in the coming days.

The final stretch of the trial of four police officers for blinding Roger Español in one eye during the 1-O has begun with one goal: to clarify as many details as possible about how the shot was fired by the National Police riot officer who now sits in the dock with three commanders. This Wednesday, specialists from the Photography and Audiovisual Unit of the Mossos d'Esquadra's Scientific Police explained their conclusions to the court after viewing all the footage of the day. The officers explained that a frame from the images shows that the shooter did not aim directly at Español, but rather fired towards the ground. The images also show a "black spot," the bullet, which bounces off the ground before striking Roger Español in the face.

The judicial investigation into the case of the baby from Barcelona who was admitted to the ICU at five weeks old with signs of severe abuse and sexual assault, allegedly at the hands of his parents, is nearing its end. This Wednesday, a nurse from Sant Joan de Déu and several workers from the Hospital del Mar testified in court; they had attended to the minor a few days before he was hospitalized, when he still had no evident injuries. In fact, all the professionals agreed that they did not suspect any abuse, as a pediatrician and a nurse from the CAP Roger de Flor had already explained. In parallel, the Mossos d'Esquadra have proposed to the court to analyze the geolocation of the mobile phones of the two suspects, both the father and the mother, in the days before the child's hospital admission. The injuries are being investigated as an attempted homicide because they posed a risk to the child's life.

The Department of Justice is working on a job pool to cover the necessary leave or replacements for prison educators and psychologists. This measure will serve to prevent positions for treatment staff—which also include social workers, pedagogues, and jurists—from remaining vacant when a worker is absent, and will make it easier to replace them immediately. Justice is working to define the criteria for creating this pool and will present it to worker representatives within a period of fifteen days, as reported by the UGT Prisons union, the majority in the sector, after meeting with Minister Ramon Espadaler, the Secretary of Penal Measures and Reinsertion, Elena Pérez, and the Director General of Prison Affairs, Domingo Estepa.

The protest that erupted with the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal in Madrid, and which transformed into a large encampment at Puerta del Sol on Saturday, has reached Barcelona. This Tuesday, a few hours after the Spanish government approved the new housing decree laws in the council of ministers, but without yet having the support of its partners, about a hundred people have camped out in Plaça Catalunya with the intention of spending the night there. "The encampment will continue, whether the decree is approved or not," they asserted in a statement on social media, through which they issued the call for this Tuesday night, which already has around twenty tents. After ten o'clock at night, the people who had gathered there were encouraging each other to spend the night among shouts of "We are staying, we are staying!"

A judge in Santa Coloma de Gramenet has opened an investigation following a complaint from social entities in the city against Vox councilman Aitor Navarro for his racist messages on social media and for having disclosed the names of people receiving municipal social aid or subsidies. The judge has summoned Navarro to testify on November 17 and will also take statements from several witnesses a week later, according to a court order reported by Eldiario.es and consulted by ARA.

Jonathan Andic's defense has sent a list of names they want to testify in the judicial case to the Martorell courts, which are investigating him as the alleged perpetrator of his father's death. Among them, the name of the lawyer and former politician Miquel Roca Junyent stands out, as reported by El Periódico and confirmed by ARA.

In recent days, prisons have experienced a series of serious incidents. Last week, an inmate from Mas d'Enric convicted of murder escaped during a scheduled outing in Tarragona. A prisoner at Quatre Camins killed his cellmate and another inmate at the same prison died by suicide. His death is the seventh by suicide in Catalan prisons this year, one more than in the whole of last year. All this at a time when the prison population is on the rise and the centers are approaching their capacity limit.

The prisoner who committed suicide this weekend in a cell at Quatre Camins had been living in the intake module for months, separated from the rest. According to what ARA has learned, he was living in isolation as a measure to protect him from other inmates from whom he had received death threats. He had been in this situation since June, and although this measure allowed him to leave his cell for two hours a day, he had not left for about a month.

Nine people face sentences of up to 27 and a half years in prison, accused of attempted murder for setting fire to a Barcelona City Police van with an officer inside, who was able to escape in time through the passenger door. It happened on February 27, 2021, during the protests over the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasél, who had entered prison on the 16th of the same month for a conviction for glorifying terrorism and insulting the Crown.

With prisons reaching their capacity limit, one of the ways the administration is trying to gain space is by promoting semi-liberty. As ARA already explained, the general directive to prison workers is to trend toward openness, which the Government had already defended in the previous legislature to improve reintegration and which now also takes on a logistical meaning. While professionals and academics agree that semi-liberties improve the prospects of a prisoner not reoffending, the acceleration of third-degree statuses in recent months leaves some concerns among workers, who warn that in some cases they do not have enough time to treat the inmates. "Excarcerations are being done a bit ahead of time and we don't have time to treat them," summarizes a prison psychologist in conversation with ARA.

More updates on the Andic case. One of the elements under investigation by the Mossos d'Esquadra is the lightning trip to Ecuador made by Jonathan Andic, who is under investigation for the death of his father and founder of Mango, Isak Andic. In this South American country, Jonathan Andic claims that his mobile phone was stolen, the same device he was carrying the day his progenitor died. The Catalan police, however, suspected that the firstborn of the Andics got rid of the phone during this trip. Now, a witness has supported the version put forward by the defense: that his mobile phone was stolen in Quito. As reported by El Nacional and confirmed by ARA, it is a man who acted as his driver and who explained to the Mossos investigators that Andic told him that his mobile had been stolen and that he even accompanied him to buy a new one.

The defense for Jonathan Andic, son of the founder of Mango, denied this Friday that he was interested in therapies that simulated falling on a mountain or into a ravine. This Friday, La Vanguardia published that the eldest son of the Andics, under investigation for the death of his father, founder of Mango, had been interested in a method used by the therapist treating him, J.L., which consisted of simulating a family member's fall into a ravine as a way to establish trust between the two conflicted people.