A few days after publishing Consent (Empúries), Vanessa Springora (Paris, 1972) received a call from the police asking her to identify the body of her father, who had committed suicide. In the apartment where he lived, which had belonged to her grandparents, they found a pile of dirt and two photos of her paternal grandfather with Nazi symbols. From there, Springora, who had not spoken to her father for years, began an investigation to understand who her grandfather was and, as a result, a pathological liar and lacking in empathy. She shares it with readers in The name of the father, translated by Marta Marfany and published by Empúries.

Oscar García's family has asked the Department of Education to investigate his suicide in 2019, when he was 21 years old, in light of "new evidence" that he may have suffered sexual abuse at the Padre Manyanet School in Les Corts, where he studied until completing secondary school. The new information refers to the priest J. Calvet, who was his teacher for two years and whom Oscar's family considers the "prime suspect." Calvet was convicted in 2023 for possession of child pornography after being reported by a computer scientist at the Manyanet School in Sant Andreu, where he later taught. He is now under investigation again for allegedly abusing an 8-year-old student with disabilities at the school in 2016. ~BK_SLT_NA Oscar in demanding an investigation into whether his son's death was related to the priest's abuse. They see similarities between what this victim alleges and the attitude they remember from his son, who refused to attend the religion classes taught by Calvet. Sources from the department consulted by ARA They indicate that they are aware of the family's request and that, in order to assess it, they are "gathering all available information." Therefore, they have asked the Barcelona Education Consortium to send them all documentation related to the case so they can analyze it. The same sources from the department predict that "it will not be a short process" and, therefore, the response could take time.

Elegant and exquisitely kind, Atom Egoyan is also one of the great Canadian directors – born in Cairo in 1960 – of recent decades, responsible for fascinating works such as Exotic (1994), The sweet future (1997) and Ararat (2002). With Seven veils, which will premiere on the Filmin platform on July 11, Egoyan signs his most complete film of the last decade, a meditation on the turbulent process of creating a work of art in which Amanda Seyfried plays the director of the new version of a production of the opera Salome which she herself worked on as a young woman. Inherited from her mentor, the project is a poisoned gift that stirs up family traumas and collides with the new sensibility of a post-Me Too society.

A few years ago, psychologist and neuroscientist Alba Cardalda (Barcelona, ​​1989) uploaded a video to Instagram to answer a simple question: how do you politely get someone to go to hell? Rosa dels Vents saw it and asked her for a book to try to answer it. How to get shit started politely (2025), which has placed among the best-selling non-fiction books in Catalan this past Sant Jordi.

Two Fridays ago, the second deputy mayor of Ripoll, Guillem Barranqueras, raised his middle finger at journalist Xavier Rius during the rally of former mayors of Ripoll against the "repression and censorship" of the municipal government. He made this contemptuous gesture in response to the publication of the book Our ultras, which has caused great discomfort among Alianza councilors. Just before, the Finance Councilor had already confronted Rius in a bar while being interviewed. "Beneit" or "liar" were some of the insults he threw at him in attacks that had already begun on social media, calling him a "pig" or a "liar" after ARA published an interview with Ríos in which he said Alianza was a "sect".

"My son was angry because I didn't want to buy him a toy, and all of a sudden, he said, 'You're stupid.' I froze and ended up losing my temper," explains Silvia, the mother of an eight-year-old boy. Situations like the one this mother experienced a few days ago are "increasingly common," notes Sylvie Pérez, a professor at the UOC's Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences. "It's normal for children to get angry, show rage or frustration, but they should never resort to insults," she says. The reason this behavior is increasingly common, according to the expert, is that "we've stopped treating each other well." There's a general—specific—lack of respect that leads us to attack people instead of the facts or situations we don't like.

In the last 72 hours, we have gone from not having much of an idea of English to giving free lessons on the exact meaning of a couple of expletives in the language of Shakespeare as if we were fluent in the Oxford dictionary. Some media outlets have sought out native English speakers to nitpick and clarify, like experts, whether it is grounds for expulsion from a football field to say what Bellingham said or what the referee understood and wrote in the report. (Spoiler alert: both expressions are insulting and therefore deserved a red card.)

Catalan police have confirmed six cases in Catalonia of girls who claim to have received injections while dancing in a club. The first precedent was detected last July 10 in Lloret de Mar, when an 18-year-old reported she had noticed a jab in her arm on the dance floor of St. Trop' nightclub. The victim explained to ARA that she felt a sting in the area she was jabbed, as well as general discomfort, and her arm was completely numb for over two hours.

There was anticipation to know if Britney Spears would testify Wednesday before the judge who assesses the legal guardianship of her father to which she has been subjected since 2008. Finally, it has been so. The singer appeared in court in Los Angeles to read a statement, which was written on four sheets of paper, in which she asked for an end to a guardianship that she considers "abusive". "I want my life back. I've been like this for 13 years and enough is enough. I haven't owned my money for too long. My wish and my dream is for all this to end without being put on probation", explained the Princess of Pop, who for the first time has spoken out publicly against the guardianship. In her statement, the Toxic singer confessed that she is unhappy, can't sleep and cries almost every day.

Catalan ombudsman Rafael Ribó has been very forceful in his assessment of claims of sexual harassment and abuse of power at the Institut del Teatre uncovered by ARA in February: "It is clear that there have been situations of abuse of power, sexual harassment and even sexual abuse". In fact, Ribó explained that the Institut del Teatre has to "promote a thorough investigation" because the facts are "more extensive than what has been presented so far" and recommended that the Institut investigate the cases of former students who filed complaints and that the current protocol does not allow it to investigate. "It should be given a broader scope, include former students and responsibilities attributable to professionals," concluded Ribó, who believes that there has been "failures" by the center in its duty to "protect" students.

The case of abuse of power and sexual harassment uncovered by ARA at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona continues its course. The institution concerned has released the first results of the work carried out by the prevention and investigation commission set up to investigate a matter that has shaken the profession and public opinion, and which led to the resignation of the centre's entire management team. The conclusions of this commission the conclusions of this monitoring committee affect thirteen teachers, of whom three will be disciplined and one might face charges of sexual harassment. Out of the ten complaints received from nineteen students and former students, the commission has only focused on the cases of students or former students who have left the school a year ago at most. The human resources department of the Institut itself will have to deal with the rest. Much remains to be clarified. And it is important to get to the bottom of it, out of respect for both the victims and the institution itself.

Violence against women is a true global pandemic, according to data presented this afternoon by the World Health Organization (WHO), in the most ambitious global study that has been carried out so far. At least one third of women on the planet (about 736 million) suffer or have suffered physical or sexual violence at the hands of their partner or others. The data is even more frightening when you consider that the violence starts very early: one in four women between the ages of 15 and 24 who have had sex will have experienced violent behaviour from a partner by the time they are 25, the report concludes.

Just a week ago we published an extensive report that has generated a strong social debate and protests from students and has led to the resignation of the management team of the Institut del Teatre.

This Friday morning Magda Puyo has resigned as general director of the Institut del Teatre (IT) following cases of sexual harassment and abuse of power uncovered on Sunday by the ARA. "I fully assume my responsibility for not having been able to find, despite having tried, effective tools to free the Institute from abusive and authoritarian behaviour. I strongly condemn these behaviors, I sympathize with the victims and I apologize to all those students who have felt forgotten by us", she said in a statement. Her resignation has already been accepted by the Provincial Council, the Diputació de Barcelona, the body which the Institut del Teatre depends on.

Last Saturday in Barcelona the police kettled a group of demonstrators in Gràcia neighbourhood and then charged at them. Subsequently the police considered this action a "tactical mistake". The fear that the people who were there in the middle were not so strategic. Shouldn't to have left the house. The . The fear the people in the middle felt was not so strategic. Shouldn't have left the house. Catalan minister of Home Affairs maintained that "there was a minimal use of force". In the videos that circulated online force seemed remarkable, but don't mind me, I'm weak. A girl has had her eye gouged out. It is collateral damage although in reality it is frontal and avoidable. It is container that suffer and are quantified and magnified, fully aware that most protesters never burn anything. Not for lack of motives. Out of strategic fear. And out of astounding ignorance, some shopkeepers speak of "the Night of Broken Glass", when in reality the only thing that happened was that a few people broke windows at night. You might despair at the first paragraph. But you hang in there. As you always do. As we are doing. Even if resilience is admirable on some days and a little scary on others

The director of the Institut del Teatre, Magda Puyo, has admitted "mistakes" in the management of cases of abuse of power and sexual harassment and has once again "shown solidarity" with the victims. Moreover, in an interview with Els matins de TV3, she has alleged the lack of tools to avoid these situations, which exist "not in the Institut but in society", and wondered why the protocol has not worked to bring the cases to light. She attributed it to a "communication" error. "Students were not very well informed of the protocol. Fear makes them not dare to report, and we have to deal with it," she said. Puyo has defended her mandate and has assured that only one case is current and that the others are prior to her directorship, which is due for renewal next month.

Joan Ollé will no longer teach at the Institut del Teatre (IT). He will be removed immediately after the cases of sexual harassment and abuse reported by dozens of students, a case uncovered by ARA on Saturday. The centre's management met this morning with student representatives, who communicated the students' request that this decision be taken. In fact, more than a hundred students demonstrated in the atrium this morning, with proclamations against Ollé and the director, Magda Puyo. "Ollé out!" and "Director, resign!", shouted the students, who were supported by professional actresses and actors who also studied at the IT. There were also several teachers, and some of them applauded the shouts against Ollé.