On June 23, 2017, twenty minutes past 12 noon, Rubén Viñuales, then a lawyer and councilor for Ciutadans at Tarragona City Council, had a phone call that this Friday has sparked controversy in the city. The portal Portaenrere.cat has transcribed the call, which is included in the summary of a drug trafficking case currently being tried at the Tarragona Provincial Court, and has collected the testimony of the Mossos sergeant who led the investigation. On Wednesday, as judicial sources confirmed to ARA, the officer explained to the court that from the conversation between Viñuales and the drug dealer, it could be interpreted that the now socialist mayor of Tarragona intended to buy drugs. The mayor has reacted through a statement on Instagram, "categorically" denying this interpretation and justifying that the call was made because he was acting as the lawyer for his interlocutor.

The machines are now ready to be reinstalled at the Tarragona Tobacco Factory and give a second life to this 68,000-square-meter industrial complex, which stopped producing tobacco in 2007. "When we have the building permit, we will move in as quickly as possible," Ferran Thomas, manager of the Universo Vira y Virgilio School (URV), told the newspaper ARA. Their intention is to begin teaching the Bachelor's Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences in September 2026 in module 5 of the Tobacco Factory, and they are ready to begin construction. Tarragona City Council already approved in its last plenary session the awarding of the 40-year concession to EUSES for this module, in exchange for an annual fee of €212,300, which will be required after the 20th year. The university school has already submitted the basic project and is awaiting the City Council's approval of the building permit to begin the initial renovation and demolition work. At the same time, EUSES will also have to present the executive project for authorization of the entire planned transformation, but the works will have already begun. The mayor of Tarragona, Rubén Viñuales, is optimistic and assures that "the works will begin in March or, at the latest, in April."