In search of the formula for Barcelona to reclaim La Rambla, the mayor, Jaume Collboni, launched an advisory council at the end of 2024 to rethink the promenade. A team led by the businessman, designer, and jeweler Joan Oliveras, which for a year and a half has tried to find a solution that would bring Barcelonians back to one of their most emblematic streets. The result is a document that was presented to the public this Tuesday and which, among other things, proposes using culture as the lever to transform La Rambla and the possibility of converting empty buildings or disused hotels into social housing so that residents gain weight in the city center.

Two weeks after the in-person process for processing the extraordinary regularization of immigrants was launched, Barcelona City Council has announced that it will open Pavilion 2 of the Montjuïc Exhibition Centre from this Wednesday to speed up procedures. Since it was launched, 94,000 registration certificates and 17,000 vulnerability reports have been issued – the majority of which (10,000) have been downloaded online – as detailed this Tuesday by the Deputy Mayor for Social Rights, Raquel Gil.

Harassment, insults, manipulated photographs to mock, or spying on someone's phone. These are the digital violences perpetrated by Spanish youth, mostly against people of their own age, friends, or work and leisure companions, and also against their partners. A study by FAD Joventut indicates that 26% of those aged between 15 and 29 have been digital aggressors in the last 15 years, with no significant gender differences, but there are differences by age: 32% of adolescents (15-19 years old) report having engaged in cyberviolent behaviors compared to 24% of those aged 20-24 and 20% of the 24-29 age group. The victim's profile is an adolescent belonging to a vulnerable group, such as an immigrant, a member of the LGBTIQ+ community, someone with a disability, or from a socially vulnerable family.

The alleged perpetrator of the death of a woman in Esplugues de Llobregat last Saturday will enter provisional prison, communicated and without bail, as reported this Tuesday by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). The investigating court has opened a case against this man for the crimes ofmurder of a 41-year-old Chinese woman in broad daylight.

After days of indecision, the luxury cruise ship MV Hondius, which is docked in Cape Verde affected by a hantavirus outbreak, will finally disembark at a port in the Canary Islands. This has been agreed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Spanish Ministry of Health, following an inspection of the ship by a group of epidemiologists and in compliance with international law and the humanitarian spirit. There are 147 people on board, and seven have been affected by hantavirus, three of whom have died.

Yeni Sánchez, 33 years old, is Honduran and has been living in Girona with her husband for three years. She has two children, a boy and a girl. In recent months, she has been living in an irregular situation after losing international protection. This week, however, she has been able to apply for the "extraordinary regulation for migrants. She has already submitted the application and, within weeks, she expects to have the provisional response to obtain residence and work permits. "It has been a horrible few months, but now I'm starting to feel calm and very hopeful," she explains.

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.

Cape Verde has denied entry to a luxury cruise ship with about 150 people on board to protect "national public safety". This is how the African country's authorities have responded to the hantavirus outbreak detected on the tourist vessel, owned by the Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions, where at least seven suspected cases have been detected, according to the World Health Organization, the WHO. Of these, only two have been confirmed by laboratory; however, to date, three people have died on board with similar symptoms and a fourth is in critical condition.

When Carmen Boer is asked about her health, she responds with a long, ironic "Oof..." before quickly reviewing her list of ailments. This year she will turn 91, she has overcome two cancers – one breast and one colon – she has heart failure, chronic bronchitis, and an incurable kidney disease. Every day she takes a dozen medications. "Ten or eleven," she says with a smile, without specifying. Last year she went to the emergency room six times due to decompensation, and on three occasions, she had to be hospitalized. However, since she became part of a program for complex chronic patients at Vall d'Hebron Hospital, she has not returned to the emergency room or required any admission.

A man fatally stabbed this Saturday morning, in the middle of the street, a woman in Esplugues de Llobregat. The man also threatened several neighbors with a knife and slightly injured another. The scene was extremely violent: a witness explains that the man stabbed the victim several times in the back next to some dumpsters and, after threatening other people and with the woman already on the ground, he went back to look for her to cut her throat. Everything indicates that the man and the woman did not know each other and that she was a victim chosen at random, arbitrarily.

Vania Arana was born in Peru in the late sixties, but she has been living in Catalonia for over thirty years. She arrives at the interview wearing a green t-shirt with the phrase: "Organize yourself if you don't want to be organized." It is the motto of Las Kellys, the union she presides over, which brings together hotel maids, that is, women who, like her, clean hotels.

Last March, social third sector entities once again carried out a In these meetings, the ombudsman has detailed his proposal to tackle homelessness. Sources indicate that it is a pilot plan project called Pla Zero Carrer (Zero Street Plan) which, initially, should be implemented in two neighborhoods – one in Barcelona and one in another city, which is expected to be L'Hospitalet de Llobregat – and which sets the ambitious goal of halving the number of people sleeping on the street in just over a year. To achieve this, it calls for the administration, entities, and the private sector to work together, sharing information and objectives so that most people who are currently homeless can move forward with their own projects.

When the current extraordinary regularization process for immigrants is completed, up to 150,000 people who live and in many cases work in Catalonia –almost half a million throughout Spain– will go from not having papers and living in the underground economy, to being able to formally enter the labor system with legal residence permits. The regularization will have evident consequences in many areas, such as the labor market or social security, but research also indicates that it may have consequences for security.

"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 Mossos d'Esquadra arrested a man this Saturday as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of a woman in the town of Esplugues de Llobregat, in Baix Llobregat. The Catalan police force received the alert around 11 a.m. this morning, through a call to 112 informing that a man had injured a woman and fled the scene. As the ARA has been able to ascertain, the murder allegedly occurred in the middle of Joan Miró street with a bladed weapon. In fact, according to residents of the area, the man had previously brandished a large knife and showed signs of nervousness. When the Mossos d'Esquadra units and the emergency medical services (SEM) arrived, they could no longer do anything to save the woman's life, who had received several stab wounds.

It is 12 at night and Nancy is watching a movie on Netflix like many Catalans do before going to sleep. She, however, is doing it from her mobile, on a street in Barcelona, ​​sheltered from the cold with a parka she uses as a blanket. Next to her is another girl sleeping on the ground covered with several layers. She has taken off her shoes to sleep and Nancy is watching her shoes, although she doesn't know her name. They met in the queue in front of the accompaniment center for the regularization of migrant people on Miquel Bleach street, which started operating on Monday to respond to high demand. Like them, this week hundreds of people living and working in Catalonia have spent the night at the doors of municipal buildings and social entities to obtain the vulnerability report or the census and complete the process to obtain residency and have a work permit in order.

It's break time. A group of secondary students leave the classroom to have some fun, and a few decide to play football. Halfway through the game, the one with the ball, ready to shoot at goal, misses. "You're useless" or "You play like a girl" are some of the comments heard in the background. A series of impressions that, even if let out in a rush without the specific intention of causing harm, take their toll. With a scene like this, Nadia Casanova, a teacher at Col·legi Liceu Castro de la Peña in Barcelona, explains how a case of school bullying can escalate. "The most visual violence is physical aggression, and yet, comments that hurt, especially those directed at self-esteem, are not addressed as much," points out Casanova.

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.

African swine fever (ASF) continues to spread – this Thursday 13 new positives have been confirmed, bringing the total to 297 cases – and there are already 19 municipalities with restrictions on access to the Collserola Natural Park. Faced with this situation, sources from the Generalitat confirm to el ARA that they have asked the organization of the Tour de France to consider a change of route in the second stage of the competition – at the beginning of July –, as it would have to pass through an area currently affected by safety and prevention measures against the infectious disease.