The objective was to kill him. Three people walked up to a man who was on a terrace with his wife and his son, who was resting in a stroller. Suddenly, they opened fire with a pistol. Neighbors heard five shots. One of the bullets hit him in the neck. A ricocheting bullet grazed a pedestrian passing on the other side of the street, although it did not cause serious injuries. The woman and the child were unharmed. Afterward, when the target of the attack was already lying on the ground, badly wounded, they also attacked him with a bladed weapon. Once they finished the attempted execution, they fled, also on foot, in the direction of the sea.

In a world marked by the harshness of war and the rise of humanitarian crises, Barcelona has taken a step forward in defense of the culture of peace. Thus, the mayor, Jaume Collboni, announced this Wednesday the birth of the Premi Internacional Barcelona per la Pau, which with 300,000 euros will be the second most relevant award in the field of peace, only behind the Nobel. Driven by the city council, the Diputació de Barcelona, and the Fundació Pau Casals, it has been decided that this award will be biennial and that the first edition's award ceremony will be held in early 2027, coinciding with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the cellist and pacifist Pau Casals.

Going to the pool, going on a mountain excursion, spending a day at the beach or playing football are simple activities that not all children can take for granted during the summer, either due to family financial difficulties or personal interaction. Bhermar arrived in Barcelona from Colombia a couple of years ago with Khamila, her 7-year-old granddaughter, and turned to the Raval socio-educational center to help the child bond and strengthen her emotional well-being. "When she leaves the summer camp, my granddaughter comes home and tells me everything she's done throughout the day. I'm clear that this has helped her grow a lot emotionally," she explains.

They had 2,400 followers on Instagram, from where they offered for the same price a shot of botox and another of hyaluronic acid in the lips so that they would look plumper. The account published offers and saving bundles, and there were plenty of responses and comments from clients apparently satisfied with the aesthetic treatments received. But it was all a deception. The clinic was not a usual premises, but an apartment, and it was not advertised on the street as a medical center. Inside, hanging on the walls, were several diplomas, all fake. The botox they injected had no medical guarantee, and the person administering it had no medical training.

Less than 24 hours after the Council of Ministers approved the royal decree that will serve to regularize the situation of more than half a million immigrants throughout the State, long queues have returned in the center of Barcelona to obtain all the documentation to carry out the procedures. One of the points where a significant number of people have accumulated is the Citizen Attention Office of Barcelona in Plaça Sant Miquel, next to the cathedral. This Wednesday morning the queue to access this service goes around the building and the complaint that "things are not moving forward" is repeated. Most have been waiting for three hours. Although there are citizens waiting to carry out all kinds of procedures, there are also many people who come to do paperwork to be able to access the regularization process, which begins this Thursday, April 16, remotely.

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.

Families for whom the Generalitat opens an investigation for the abandonment of underage children will have free legal assistance from the moment the administrative procedure begins. This is one of the proposals put forward by the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion within the reform of the child protection system announced a year ago in which professionals from different sectors have participated. In fact, a large part of the demands from the legal sector (lawyers and prosecutors) have been incorporated, which at some point also coincided with affected families in criticizing that the withdrawal of custody is a non-transparent process.

The climber who was in critical condition after being hit by several stones on Saturday while on a route in Montserrat has died this Tuesday at Bellvitge Hospital, as reported by La Vanguardia and confirmed by the ACN. The deceased was accompanied by a man, both 30 years old, who died the day after the accident at Vall d'Hebron Hospital. The Montserrat Mountain Patronage has preemptively closed five climbing routes in the Columpi sector after the fatal accident, as there is an accumulation of stones in the area with a high risk of falling.

Barcelona got to work this Tuesday to resolve one of the city's pending issues for more than a decade: the relocation of the Eixample fire station, which since it left the historic headquarters on Provença street is in Joan Miró Park. A provisional location that, furthermore, the justice ruled was irregular because it is built on green space. To resolve this, the Urban Planning Commission has definitively approved the plan to build a new station in the block bounded by Sarrià Avenue and Comte d'Urgell and Buenos Aires streets.

It was four in the afternoon when a man, his wife, and their son were sitting on the terrace of a bar in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. The sun was shining, and they were not alone on the terrace. The son was resting in a stroller next to the table. Suddenly, some people appeared and shot the man indiscriminately. A witness heard five shots from his house. "At first, I thought they were firecrackers," he explains. Later, however, he poked his head out of the balcony and saw a man lying on the ground, covered in blood.

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.

The harsh images of a Catalonia dry for three and a half years due to lack of rainfall and high temperatures have been replaced by those of full reservoirs, which currently exceed 92% of their reserves. But the water crisis was a wake-up call: it is no longer possible to live solely dependent on whether it rains or not, but rather it is necessary to transform the facilities that manage and produce water, whether they already exist or still need to be built or launched.

Artificial intelligence is already part of the daily life of primary care in Catalonia. In fact, ChatGPT is the most used tool by family doctors, far ahead of other options, according to a study published in The Lancet Primary Care. The work, promoted by the Societat Catalana de Medicina Familiar i Comunitària (CAMFiC) and led by Antoni Sisó, shows that AI has become a regular support in tasks such as medical literature research, text drafting, or clinical session preparation.

Several students from a high school in the north of the Netherlands, among whom there would be Catalan exchange students, were threatened with a supposed firearm, humiliated, and filmed by strangers in two incidents that took place this Monday in the municipality of Haren. According to local television RTV Noord, it was the school itself (the Harens Lyceum center) that reported the events in a letter sent to parents and guardians of the center. Sources from the Department of Education confirm that an incident has occurred and explain that the Government is already monitoring this situation in coordination with the Spanish consular authorities in the Netherlands "to have a more precise understanding of the events that may have occurred and to study the necessary actions."

The relentless rise in sexual infections in Catalonia in recent years has led to over 40,000 cases being diagnosed in a single year for the first time. This is not an isolated increase: these infections are a public health problem across Europe that health authorities attribute to a paradigm shift in sexual behaviors, especially among young people, who use condoms less, have more sexual partners, and engage in more behaviors considered risky. One of the infections that is particularly concerning is gonorrhea, which, according to a study, has tripled in recent years in Catalonia: the incidence of the disease has increased by 236% since 2019, reaching 152.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the 2022-2023 period.

From this Tuesday, the Jaume Bofill Foundation will cease to have a name linked to the philosopher and jurist Jaume Bofill Bofill and from now on will be called Equitat.org. As the entity has communicated, after 57 years they have decided to make a change to make clear "the mission of the foundation". From the entity they explain that with the change the mission is incorporated into the name "to explicitly claim quality education and real opportunities for everyone in a context of greater social complexity and polarization".

One month after the Government signed an improvement in conditions for teachers and the situation in classrooms with CCOO and UGT – but not with the rest of the unions or with USTEC, which is the majority – the agreement continues to cause repercussions. This Tuesday USTEC sent all teachers a new email to ask again if it is necessary to continue with the mobilizations. Just as the union did in the last strikes that achieved massive support, USTEC has decided to leave the next steps in the hands of the collective. In this way, they ask teachers three questions: if they are willing to go on "more strikes", how many days of strike they would go on – with options between one day and more than 10 – and what type of strike they would prefer.

New chapter in the investigation to clarify why two trains collided in Adamuz, in the province of Cordoba, on January 18, an accident that caused 46 fatalities. If last week the Civil Guard pointed out that the main hypothesis was a track break that occurred 22 hours before the incident without any Adif system detecting it, this Monday evening the company managing the railway infrastructure in Spain has corrected the police force. Specifically, Adif's president, Pedro Marco, has assured that the Civil Guard did not correctly interpret the technicalities on which it bases its conclusion that the rail was already broken.

The inhabitants of the French village of Hagenbach, with only 800 residents, cannot come to terms with it. In this Alsatian municipality, a father locked his son inside a van parked in front of the family home for almost a year and a half, forcing him to relieve himself in bags and bringing him food only twice a day. He did not go to school, had not showered, nor had he had contact with anyone during all this time. The French gendarmerie rescued him after a complaint last week from a neighbor who had heard a child's voice inside the vehicle. The officers found the boy, who is now nine years old, naked, in a fetal position, and malnourished. He was unable to walk.

Medicine showed its most spectacular face seventeen years ago with the functional cure of the first patient with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). But now the case of Timothy Ray Brown, known globally as the Berlin patient, is no longer an exception: there are now ten people worldwide who have managed to eliminate the virus through a complex but effective stem cell transplant. The most recent case is that of the so-called Oslo patient, a 62-year-old Norwegian and seropositive man, who was also diagnosed with a cancer of the immune system and required this intervention. Four years later, and despite having stopped receiving antiretroviral drugs, the virus remains undetectable. With one peculiarity compared to previous cases: his donor is his own brother.