Carlota Elias was clear that she needed a topic that would motivate her for her final degree project in criminology. And she came across the word hyrbridophilia: people who are attracted to criminals. She has finally turned it into the book Hibristofília, a tale of (enclosed) fairies.

Despite the truce signed last October, Israel continues to kill Palestinians. Specifically, the Israeli army carried out an attack this Friday on a school in Gaza City, killing five people, mostly children, according to a statement from the local civil defense. The school is located in the northeastern part of the city and was being used as a shelter for displaced people. Under the pretext of alleged "immediate threats," Israeli troops have killed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 10, with the total death toll reaching 395 in its latest official count on Friday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. For its part, the Israeli army clarified in a statement that its troops "identified several suspicious individuals in command structures west of the Yellow Line" in the northern Gaza Strip and then "fired on the suspects to eliminate the threat." The Palestinian statement emphasizes that civil defense teams and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs "completed the recovery of five bodies," in addition to an as-yet-undetermined number of wounded, in the Al Tufah neighborhood, according to EFE. In fact, it specifies that the "majority" of these fatalities were children. Meanwhile, the army of Benjamin Netanyahu, accused of genocide for its actions in Gaza, asserts that it is "aware of the information regarding casualties in the area and the details are under review." It adds that it "regrets any harm to uninvolved people and is working to mitigate the damage as much as possible." However, according to the Gaza authorities, it is a "serious violation of international humanitarian law" and a breach of the ceasefire. In this regard, they have again urged the international community and the UN to protect civilians and guarantee the safety of shelters and humanitarian personnel. According to these sources, the Israeli army has even obstructed the arrival of ambulances.

It was a love triangle. She, who was not yet fifty, had been leaving that man for two years because he abused her. In fact, she had even filed a police report against him. Since then, she explained that she only saw him on rare occasions, always in a bad way. She would find him sleeping in cars with an empty wallet, and she felt empathy because he didn't have an easy life. This led her to let him shower at her house, to take care of him. But that was it: the relationship ended there, because she said she was happy with a new partner. He was her boss at a restaurant in an industrial park in Sant Jaume dels Domenys. When was the last time she saw him? The woman said it had been about a week.

After the murder of a woman in Huelva at the hands of her ex-partner was confirmed on Monday, the National Police are investigating another femicide this Tuesday, this time in Zaragoza, involving a 49-year-old woman. The alleged perpetrator is her partner, with whom she lived, who has already been arrested, according to the Government Delegation in Aragon. In addition, the Ministry of Equality also confirmed another femicide in Alicante on October 24th. With these three femicides, the total number of women murdered by partners or ex-partners this year has risen to 36. None of the three murdered women had filed previous complaints, nor were they registered in the VioGen system, which records cases of violence against women. In the case of Zaragoza, the government delegate in Aragon, Fernando Beltrán, explained to the media that neighbors of the couple raised the alarm early in the morning after hearing arguments inside a home. A patrol arrived at the apartment, and the officers had to use force because the man refused to let them in. There, the police found the woman with several stab wounds and, despite attempts to save her life, they were unable to revive her. The National Police have arrested the suspected perpetrator of the homicide, and the investigation has been handed over to the judicial police. The Zaragoza City Council has declared a day of mourning.

The father of Rosa Peral, one of those convicted for the crime committed by the Urban Guard, faces a year and four months in prison for allegedly lying in court while trying to exonerate his daughter. A defendant can lie to defend themselves in court, but witnesses are prohibited from doing so. Paco Peral was tried this week for the alleged crime of false witness, for which the Prosecutor's Office is also demanding a fine of €1,800, according to the indictment obtained by ARA and ratified by the prosecutor at this week's trial. In addition, the father and daughter are awaiting another trial in which they are accused of concealing assets to avoid compensating the victim's family. The prosecution is seeking four years in prison for her and three and a half years for him.

The National Police are investigating whether Remedios Sánchez, who is serving a prison sentence in a Galician penitentiary for the murder of three elderly women in Catalonia twenty years ago, is the perpetrator of the violent death of another elderly woman, a homicide committed a few days ago in A Coruña. Investigators are trying to determine whether Remedios Sánchez committed a new crime while on prison leave.

Shaheen Azra has returned to Catalonia. She is Arooj and Anisa Abbas's mother, the 24- and 21-year-old sisters from Terrassa killed in Pakistan for wanting to divorce their cousins, who they had been forced to marry a year ago. On her arrival, she interrupted the Pakistani consul to speak to the media: "I want to thank you. Thank you for letting me return and thanks to the Pakistani police, to the authorities here and especially to the Pakistani consulate in Barcelona for helping me". Thus, between sadness and gratitude, the woman and her youngest son, aged 13, landed early Sunday morning at El Prat airport, after an almost 24-hour flight.

A week ago, the day after Arooj and Anisa Abbas arrived in Pakistan, they were murdered. The two sisters from Terrassa were killed in a family home in Gujrat, Punjab, where their mother was also staying. When the double murder was committed, the woman was able to escape but fled without her 9-year-old son, who was also in the house. Pakistani police tracked down the mother, who the family also wanted to murder, Pakistani consul in Barcelona Mirza Salman Baig has informed ARA.

"I have received many threats, but I am not afraid of anything." Says Huma Jamshed Bashir, founder and president of the Pakistani Women's Cultural, Educational and Social Association (Acesop), shortly after organising a rally in Barcelona against the murder of two Pakistani sisters who wanted to leave their forced marriages. The protest brought together a dozen Pakistani women and this small turnout, for Jamshed, is a revelation in itself: "There are few because they are banned".

Sisters Arooj and Anisa Abbas (aged 24 and 21) from Terrassa, killed in Pakistan because they wanted a divorce, were forced into their marriages. They are not alone: Catalan police have detected 198 victims of forced marriage in the last 13 years. They are all women, mostly between 13 and 23, who were forced to marry a man against their will. Sometimes marriages can even be carried out online or by phone, as pointed out to ARA on Tuesday the Pakistani consul in Barcelona, Mirza Salman Baig. Social worker Ruth Rosique, from the technical team of Valentes i Acompanyades –a charity campaigning against forced marriages– explains that some victims have distance weddings, which are then confirmed when they visit their country of origin or their husband comes to Catalonia.

Abdul explains that the police showed up twice at the property and showed him the photo of the two girls. "Of course I know them. I've crossed paths with them plenty of times in the staircase," he replied. Still, he hadn't seen them for days and didn't even hear a sound in the apartment where they lived, as if no one was there. Abdul is Arooj and Anisa Abbas's neighbour. The two sisters (aged 24 and 21) were killed in Pakistan because they wanted to divorce the cousins they had been forced to marry a year ago. The girls lived with their parents and their three brothers on Historiador Cardús street in Terrassa, in a humble four-story block with no lift and a long steep staircase. The family's name does not appear on the mailboxes and this Tuesday, if you knocked on the door of the house, no one opened.

Under normal democratic conditions, power tends to expand and consider that the free press is always disaffected or never sufficiently enthusiastic about its positions. Of course, even in journalism there are those who are willing to intervene in politics beyond a civic commitment to attempt to honestly explain what is happening. But tensions do not invalidate the fact that free journalism is a form of democratic resistance and permanent tension between press and power is not only healthy, but has a system of guarantees, which may be imperfect but are nonetheless real. Free press and freedom of expression are factors that help development in every sense or, in the words of Indian-born Nobel economics laureate Amartya Sen, no democracy with a free press suffers mass hunger.

A man from Rubí has been arrested this week for having shared, with other men, images of sexual assaults on girls between 7 and 12 years old. He did it from his work computer, where he had installed an application specifically to be able to pass on this material. He was a man with a job in a multinational company.