What seemed like a family-run travel agency ended up accumulating over €160,000 in scams. Dozens of people who hired them to arrange flights, accommodation, transportation, and excursions to their holiday destinations were left high and dry. The trips were either never booked or were canceled as soon as the victims had paid the intermediaries. Sometimes the holidays did exist, but under very different conditions than those agreed upon, as happened to a group of retirees who were expecting a cruise through the Greek islands and found themselves living in squalid conditions in a hostel.

The Barcelona Court has acquitted the orderly at Bellvitge Hospital accused of sexually abusing a patient in the eating disorders unit of the same center with a prognosis of severe anorexia. a case advanced by the ARA. The trial was held on January 26. And this Tuesday, ARA obtained access to the ruling that acquits OMV, for whom the prosecution had requested an eight-year prison sentence for repeated sexual abuse. The events date back to the summer of 2020.

The jury has concluded that the man tried last week at the Barcelona Court to kill a minor under 15 years of age in Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà (Osona) in 2023 He is guilty of homicide. This was the majority decision of the jury, who also unanimously ruled that the defendant is guilty of illegal possession of a firearm, as the crime was committed with a pistol. The prosecution and the private prosecution are seeking sentences exceeding 20 years in prison, and the judge must now determine the exact sentence for the defendant.

"No." This has been the most repeated response from the two Mossos d'Esquadra officers – an agent and a corporal from the Sant Martí police station. who sit in the dock of the Barcelona Court for planting drugs and weapons in the car of Carlos L., a dockworker at the port of Barcelona, ​​with the aim of framing him in 2016. The trial is nearing its end, and this Wednesday it was the turn of the defendants to testify: both officers and two mechanics. All four defendants denied any involvement in the events, answering only questions from their lawyers. They denied knowing Carlos L. and having nothing against him. In fact, during his testimony, the dockworker also stated that he did not know the four defendants, but affirmed that the person who wanted to frame him was David Caballero, known as Bubito, a former port worker. who was murdered a year ago in Montgat due to a drug-related conflict that is still under investigation. However, the prosecution considers the four defendants to be the perpetrators and has maintained its request for 18 years and nine months in prison for the Mossos d'Esquadra officers and 14 years for the mechanics. The psychiatrist treating the dockworker also testified at the trial and admitted that while he initially did not believe the conspiracy against Carlos L., after reviewing the case documentation, he realized that his account "was coherent." The specialist stated that the victim suffers from extreme anxiety and distress that began after he was high. He added that the victim "fears for his life at all times," believes he is being electronically spied on, followed, watched, and harassed, and has even cut off contact with his closest circle.

HeBarcelona Urban Guard agent who fired a shot in 2020 A homeless man who was walking along Passeig de Sant Joan with a knife in his hand has been acquitted without ever having to go to trial. The judges of the Second Section of the Barcelona Court of Appeals have dismissed the Arrels Foundation from the case at the last minute. This has overturned the only remaining accusation against the officer, as the Prosecutor's Office did not accuse him of any crime, and the victim's lawyer was also dismissed because the man who lived on the streets, Marjan, has been untraceable for years.

The Barcelona Court on Tuesday judged a man accused of sexual assault for having removed a condom without consent while having sexual relations with a woman, a practice known as stealthing and on which the Supreme Court has already ruled, considering it sexual assault. In Tuesday's trial, the Prosecutor's Office requested that the accused be sentenced to three years in prison.

A plea deal has resolved the Castelldefels Manada trial before it began on Tuesday. The five defendants accepted a sentence imposing minimum sentences. While the initial request by the Prosecutor's Office had exposed them to between 28 and 53 years in prison each, the sentences they ultimately face range from 3 years and 11 months to 8 years and 5 months. Therefore, while the public prosecutor's request totaled 196 years for all defendants, the sentences, combined, are 32 years and seven months in prison for all five defendants. With the sentence accepted by the five defendants, they are convicted of the assaults and of belonging to a criminal group for committing crimes against sexual freedom.

More than 676,000 objects await sentencing. If we lined them all up, they would take up more than thirty kilometers. They are or were evidence in some court case and are now in safekeeping in case the case ever needs to be reviewed, or until the judge authorizes the destruction of objects corresponding to closed cases. All this evidence is stored in thirty warehouses in Catalonia, and the oldest objects are in the basement of the Barcelona Court. Here, there are 304 square meters housing more than 36,000 objects.

The sentence that Friday acquitted footballer Dani Alves The sexual assault case has sparked reactions from the judiciary, politics, and feminist movement. But it has also raised many questions about the arguments of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) when it overturned the sentence handed down by the Barcelona Court, which considered it proven that the footballer had sexually assaulted a girl at the Sutton nightclub in late 2022.

The judges who acquitted Alves pointed out in the same sentence that revoking the initial sentence accusing the footballer of sexual assault I didn't mean to say "that the true hypothesis is the one maintained by the defendant's defense," who, after changing his story several times during the trial, argued that he and the complainant had consensual sex. This is because, for a conviction, the prosecution must prove its version, not the other way around. In other words, the defense doesn't have to prove that its explanation is true; it's enough to refute the prosecution's. Since, in the opinion of the TSJC, the complainant's statement is not sufficiently reliable to be considered conclusive evidence, the judges have prioritized the principle of the presumption of innocence to overturn the conviction.

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The owner of an occupied apartment stops paying the water, electricity, and gas bills. Tenants are left without supplies, and this can be a reason to leave. Some courts have ruled this situation a crime of coercion by the owner of the occupants, but the Barcelona Court of Appeals considers it not a crime, regardless of whether the apartment was empty before the occupation or not.

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For at least eight months, the 24 elderly people admitted to the Santlisart residence in Sant Quirze del Vallès were fed with meals that would correspond to eighteen people. From September 2015 to April 2016, there is no record of any payment for breakfast or snacks in the accounts of the nursing home. The centre only spent 4.90 euros on food per person per day, half the average among nursing homes at that time. "It was absolutely insufficient, we considered that we should report it to the Public Prosecutor's Office," said an inspector from the Generalitat in the trial that began this Tuesday in the Court of Barcelona. The sentences to which the four accused are exposed exceed fifty years in prison.

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