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 National Court has indicted the director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, in the Leire Díez case and summoned her to testify on July 16. She is not the only official of the armed institute that the court considers under suspicion: it is also investigating the operational deputy director (DAO) of the corps, Manuel Llamas, for Díez's alleged maneuvers to halt investigations affecting those close to Spanish President Pedro Sánchez. Specifically, Judge Santiago Pedraz, who made this decision after the request from the Public Prosecutor's Office and popular accusers led by the PP, believes they may have committed crimes of prevarication and obstruction of justice.

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.

"Never ever". And so on, and so on. The Director General of the Civil Guard, who appears splashed in the Leire Díez case summary, has flatly and unequivocally denied that she intervened in any way in maneuvers to "obstruct" judicial proceedings being investigated by the National Court. "I have never participated in any plot or conspiracy against the UCO, I have never participated in any smear campaign against the UCO, and I have never taken any measure against any UCO agent," Mercedes González proclaimed vehemently as soon as her appearance began before the Senate Interior Committee, convened by the PP's absolute majority. "I have never persecuted my own because they are my family," she added later. "I am not involved in any sewer," she even said. To defend herself, she boasted that there had been "no complaint" from UCO agents who felt threatened or coerced, and after two and a half hours, she concluded her statement with a proclamation: "Every day I have to tell myself that I have done nothing wrong. Meanwhile, the fury eager to achieve destruction and desolation will roar.

Firefighters are working with the hypothesis that the sixteen-year-old adolescent disappeared in Roses (Alt Empordà) while riding a jet ski would have lost his vest at some point and sunk. Now, rescue efforts are focused on tracing the coast along the southern part of Roses, up to Begur and Palamós. Drones have also been flown over the Medes Islands and GRAE divers are making dives between two and four meters, taking advantage of the "acceptable" visibility in the area. Firefighters plan to trace the coast by helicopter this Saturday from Roses to Begur before suspending the search for the young man. This Friday's search will stop when night falls and will resume tomorrow morning.

The director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, met with Leire Díez, the main suspect in the latest judicial case affecting the PSOE, even though until now both she and the Spanish government had denied it both in writing – in response to parliamentary questions from the PP – and orally: last week the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, reiterated it, stating that "the director of the Civil Guard has not had any meeting with anyone [...] Not with Leire nor with anyone else". This account changed this Thursday, once the summary of the case being investigated by the National High Court became known. In a statement this Thursday evening, the Civil Guard itself acknowledges at least two meetings —it does not rule out a third— and assures that González cut off the relationship as soon as Díez asked her to reinstate Commander Rubén Villalba, who was removed from the force for being involved in a judicial proceeding.

Episodes of police brutality, like the one that occurred last weekend in Valencia, when a police officer attacked a protester without reason and from behind at the teachers' assemblies, always constitute a direct attack on the foundations of democracy. Since the so-called state security forces and bodies are delegated the management of violence (they are the only ones who can carry weapons, and use them, in public spaces), when one or more police officers turn against citizens and use force against them, the act causes consternation and repulsion. The use of force is only justified in very specific cases, which are legislated, and none include repression against people exercising their right to demonstrate and protest.Scenes like that of the retired teacher who is pushed face down to the ground by a national policeman are intolerable. The images are unequivocal, so the reaction should also be: swift expulsion from the force for this officer, in addition to any criminal responsibilities they may incur for the assault on their victim. Instead, however, as always happens when something of this nature occurs (I mean: every time a policeman assaults a person suspected of not being a good Spanish patriot, according to the well-known parameters of Spanish ultranationalism), a swarm of politicians and journalists suddenly appears to cover for the policeman in question and to twist reality. It doesn't matter that it's recorded by a lot of cameras and that everyone has seen it: the denial machine kicks in and quickly twists reality, in order to present the victim as the aggressor and the aggressor policeman as an exemplary servant of public order (and as a victim, if necessary). A protester who receives a brutal push when she is with her back to her aggressor, when she was doing nothing remotely punishable and who obviously cannot defend herself from an armed and uniformed policeman, becomes in a certain official version a “element of tension” or an “alterer of social peace”. This is what has been done by the president of the Valencian Generalitat, the very unworthy Juanfran Pérez Llorca, and a long list of usual mariachis from the press close to the PP and Vox. The abusive policeman (who, incidentally, the first thing that should be done to him is a drug and alcohol test), on the other hand, becomes little less than a hero.Or a hero without palliative care: the police officers of 1-O were decorated, and a few dozen paraded through the trial of the Procés to give easily verifiable false testimony about the events of September 20 and October 1, 2017. The Altsasu police officers involved in a bar brawl were exalted as victims of terrorism, while eight young people were sentenced to high prison terms for terrorism offenses. This, to mention just two recent cases that many of us remember. Abuse of authority is, for certain defenders of the homeland, a way of winning ten to zero.

If they wanted a marijuana plantation, they provided all the necessary material. Lighting, ventilation, irrigation systems, fertilization... They even brought it wherever it was needed. They operated like a cannabis supermarket. Apparently, they sold grow shop products, intended for personal consumption, but in reality, as an investigation by the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Guardia Civil has been able to confirm, they supplied plantations controlled by large marijuana cartels. These are individuals of Spanish nationality who have appeared in many investigations in recent years against Albanian cannabis clans – although none of them had prior records – and, finally, the police have been able to link their role: they facilitated infrastructure and money laundering.

They are investigating the discovery of the lifeless bodies of a Civil Guard agent, his wife, 55, and his 24-year-old son in Dolores, Alicante, as a possible case of gender-based violence. Sources close to the case have indicated to Efe that the investigation points to the Civil Guard agent, who has no prior record of gender-based violence, having murdered both his wife and son before committing suicide.

For months, a week in June has been circled in red in Madrid: from the 6th to the 12th. It is an event that is on the social but also political agenda, to the point that it is speculated that Juanma Moreno Bonilla decided to move forward the Andalusian elections so as not to coincide with the election campaign. It is about the visit of Pope Leo XIV to the State, where he will stop in Madrid, Barcelona, and the Canary Islands. This Monday, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, presided over the general meeting of the security device in Madrid, in which the director of the police, Josep Lluís Trapero, also participated. As the minister explained in statements to the media, collected by the ACN, the visit will involve the deployment of 11,000 national police officers, in addition to 2,200 Civil Guard agents. In a few hours, the Mossos d'Esquadra have also committed to reporting on their device. Taking into account the context in which the pontiff's trip is taking place, Marlaska asserted that it involves

Months ago, a week in June was marked in red in Madrid: from the 6th to the 12th. It is an event that is on the social agenda, but also political, to the point that it is speculated that Juanma Moreno Bonilla decided to advance the Andalusian elections so that the electoral campaign would not coincide. It is about the visit of Pope Leo XIV to the State, where he will make a stop in Madrid, Barcelona, and the Canary Islands. This Monday, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, presided over the general meeting of the security device in Madrid, in which the director of the police, Josep Lluís Trapero, also participated.

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.

The Civil Guard has fewer and fewer hypotheses on the table to try to find out why two trains collided in Adamuz, in the province of Córdoba, on January 18, an event that caused 46 fatalities. In fact, the Spanish police are now practically only investigating one of the hypotheses: a track breakage would have caused a derailment of an Iryo train traveling towards Madrid, which collided with an Alvia train that was moving in the opposite direction at that time.

Kris Charlier, 76, born in Belgium and living in Catalonia since 2015, has taken two Civil Guard officers to court, accusing them of harassing him at El Prat airport, allegedly for speaking to them in Catalan: "If I had spoken in Spanish, I suppose the Barcelona Provincial Court would have said everything." Charlier, represented by Plataforma per la Llengua (Platform for the Language), is seeking a six-year and two-month prison sentence for hate crimes, coercion, and falsification of official documents. He has also asked the court to disqualify the two officers from public office for almost seven years, fine them €4,800, and award him €3,122 in damages. The prosecution, however, sees no crime in the officers' actions, who are represented by the State Attorney's Office. Charlier stated during the trial that the officers' actions made him feel "humiliated, offended, and wounded" in his dignity as a citizen.

Exhuming a crime scene can have unforeseen consequences. When lawyer Damià del Clot and journalist Albert Calls, authors of Two and a half dead (Portico), as they entered the ARA building to conduct the interview, they received a call. They had finally located a relative of one of the victims of the murder that occurred on November 20, 1980, in a forest in Cabrera de Mar. This is not the only thread they have tried to pull since publishing the book that attempts to shed light on a crime shrouded in mystery.

The Secretary of State for Transport, José Antonio Santano, has reacted in the controversy generated by the alleged removal of railway equipment from the area of ​​the Adamuz accident in January, "under cover of darkness and without judicial authorization." In a public appearance this Tuesday in Barcelona, ​​Santano denied any wrongdoing and defended Adif's work.

A judge in Barcelona has formally charged two former Civil Guard directors, Félix Vicente Azón and María Gámez, for the first time in connection with the Pegasus spyware used to spy on Catalan independence, according to the EFE news agency. The case stems from a lawsuit filed by five of those affected by the spying, including businessman and former Junts senator Joan Matamala. Last September the judge accepted this lawsuit because they considered that the reported events could constitute crimes of discovery and disclosure of computer secrets and illegal access to computer systems.

When asked if the sweater is genuine, the employee responds with a resounding yes. "It's very good, very warm," he explains. Questioned about the fact that 15 euros is a very low price for a Norway brand sweater—the one with the Norwegian flag logo—the clerk replies that it's not exactly the Norway brand from Norway, but rather another brand from Italy—a European country considered one of the epicenters of clothing counterfeiting, with the city of Prato as a prime example. When asked if payment could be made by card, the employee asks if cash would be accepted. Once paid, the exit of the store leads you to the entrance of another business, also selling clothing. In fact, it would resemble a shopping center if we weren't in the middle of an industrial park in the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona. Amidst the constant flow of trucks, rows of massive wholesale clothing stores are visible, about twenty in just over 300 meters.

Among the dozens of boxes are Christmas elves, Pikachu costumes for babies, and dolls from the movie Lilo & StitchThese are gifts that many children could have opened this Tuesday morning, after the Three Kings' Day visit to every home. But they were dangerous toys: the Pikachu doll, for example, broke easily into very small pieces that children could swallow. All these boxes were discovered in several storage units in Badalona. There were many toys, up to 214,000, and the Civil Guard is investigating six people for smuggling products dangerous to children's health. In a statement, the Spanish police made it clear that the toys could cause "blockages, cuts, or injuries" and did not meet any safety standards. In total, the seized merchandise is valued at two million euros, and the boxes were ready to be shipped to the final seller. Behind these storage units were two separate criminal groups that were dismantled in two separate operations. On December 4, 2025, five storage units were searched, and 58,650 toys and 3,621 textile products were seized. A month later, on January 2, another five storage units were searched, where 151,730 allegedly counterfeit items were confiscated. The investigation began by following the trail of several counterfeit products that arrived in Catalonia, which led investigators to the storage units in Badalona.