New setback for Sílvia Orriols. The Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (OAC) has opened an investigation into the mayor of Ripoll for alleged irregularities in the hiring of her daughter as a local police officer. The OAC procedure responds to a complaint, which has been admitted for processing and now moves to an investigation phase, in which it will be assessed whether it has merit. Last week, both in the plenary session and the following day in a press conference without questions, Orriols denied having influenced the hiring of her daughter as a local police officer and defended that she obtained "the best grade in a regulated selection process" for an emergency position.

Aliança Catalana started the week with morale through the roof after a survey by El Periódico placed it as the second force in the next elections to the Parliament. However, the Islamophobic party ends the week with a new controversy related to the management in the mayor's office of Ripoll that has put it in the eye of the hurricane: the hiring of Sílvia Orriols' daughter as an interim local police officer. Now the controversy does not revolve around whether her daughter, Guinadell, met the merits for the position, but rather whether the procedure offered sufficient guarantees of impartiality in the face of a possible conflict of interest.

The Ripoll City Council has hired one of the daughters of the town's mayor, Sílvia Orriols, as an interim local police officer. Orriols herself announced this at the plenary session on Tuesday evening and made it clear that she had not placed "anyone in a position" and that she had "absolutely abstained from participating in anything affecting the process," even though she was the one who appointed the tribunal formed by officers of the corps. "Just as I cannot benefit her with my position, I also cannot prevent her from fulfilling her dream," she stated in response to the opposition's reproaches. The position was announced as "urgent" to guarantee the "correct provision of service" given the "structural understaffing of officers," Orriols pointed out.

The Montornés del Vallès Local Police have shot a young man who allegedly broke into the police station with a knife on Friday night. The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. and the man, who was between 20 and 25 years old, died. According to initial reports, he entered the building with some kind of knife to threaten one of the officers. To force him back, a colleague shot him using his service firearm. In the incident, a police officer was also seriously injured by a ricocheting bullet that hit his torso, but was taken to a Barcelona hospital and is not in danger of death.

The local police of Roda de Berà, in Tarragonès, have arrested a 47-year-old man for continuously sexually assaulting five animals on two farms in the municipality and even causing the death of a sheep. The arrest took place this Wednesday for a crime of animal abuse, although the investigation dates back to the end of 2022. It was then that the owner of one of the two farms alerted that two of her animals had serious injuries to their genitals.