Juan Carlos I will publish his memoirs in France on November 5. This Wednesday, a week earlier, the former king made it clear that his objective is none other than to rehabilitate his image after five years of exile in Abu Dhabi. weekly Le Point He has released some excerpts from the book, in which the former monarch defends democracy as his "legacy" in Spain, and in an interview in Le Figaro He himself states that this was Franco's objective when he granted him accession to the throne: "Why lie if it was he who made me king and, in reality, did so to create a more open regime?" Coinciding with this promotion, Juan Carlos I lands in Spain this Wednesday.

Juan Carlos I has managed to earn more than four million euros in the five years he has been living in Abu Dhabi, which has allowed him to return the money that some business friends lent him in 2021 to regularize his situation with the Treasury, according to the newspaper reported this Wednesday. The World.

Interpol has asked Abu Dhabi for the immediate arrest and extradition of the Spanish-Lebanese arms merchant Abdul Rahman El Assir, who has accompanied the former Spanish king Juan Carlos I to this country, and on whom two international arrest warrants have weighed since 2019, according to El País. The newspaper also published a few days ago that El Assir, 71, was hiding in Abu Dhabi, where he has been seen for months with former Spanish king at his private residence, with some sources believing he is using Juan Carlos I as a "shield" to avoid his legal problems. El Assir has a long friendship with the former monarch and he was one of the guests at the wedding of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia in 2004.