The one from Africa to the The Balearic Islands are the fastest growing migratory route. and turns the archipelago into one of the gateways for irregular immigration. Without any possibility of doing so legally, and with intensified military and police controls on the Canary Islands route, more and more migrants are seeking alternatives to reach European territory. The number of small boats arriving to the islands from the coast of Algeria has increased by 84% in the first nine months of the year, while boat arrivals to Spain have decreased by 38%. The islands already represent 23% of total arrivals, when seven years ago that percentage was a residual 0.4%, according to the latest data from the Ministry of the Interior.

New case of infiltration in Catalan social and political movements. A 26-year-old National Police officer spent more than two years infiltrating the movement for Palestine and the pro-independence left, according to published this Wednesday The Direct and have denounced the affected groups in a joint press conference this morning. Under the name of Belén Hammad Gómez, the agent used the Palestinian Community of Catalonia as a gateway to activism and then approached the Casal Popular 3 Voltes Rebel, in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, ​​​​and the left-wing independentist organization Endavant. From these spaces, in the fall of 2019 he actively participated in the mobilizations against the sentence of the Process, including the protests in Plaza Urquinaona.