Lawyer Francesc Comitre has accepted a four-year and seven-month prison sentence After admitting to leading a network that amassed around a hundred real estate scams, he was convicted of fraud. They targeted people, often elderly, experiencing financial hardship, offering them loans to help with their debts. However, what the victims unknowingly signed were the sale of their homes at a price far below market value or financial products like reverse mortgages. Everything was legally formalized, and the participation of notary Enrique Peña was crucial. Peña accepted a three-year and two-month prison sentence and will never be able to practice law again. A total of 17 people were involved between 2009 and 2015. Three died before the trial began this Monday, and the other 14 confessed to the fraud and reached an agreement with the prosecution, resulting in reduced sentences. Two of the victims, a mother and daughter, each owned 50% of an apartment on Compte Borrell Street in Barcelona. They were paying €1,350 a month on their mortgage, a sum that became difficult to manage during a time of financial hardship. On the recommendation of acquaintances, they contacted a loan company run by Comitre and another of the defendants. They concealed from the victims that the apartment's value at that time was around half a million euros, and agreed that a third defendant would buy it for €168,300, the same amount they still owed on their mortgage. In addition, the mother would receive a lifetime annuity of €500 and could continue living there until her death with a life estate. The agreement, ratified by notary Enrique Peña, included no guarantees in case the payments were not made. The final document set the sale price of the apartment at €150,000 and, instead of the lifetime annuity promised to the woman, stipulated that she would have to pay the new owner €350 a month to continue living in the apartment. A few days later, the defendant resold the apartment to a fourth defendant for €450,000 without ever mentioning the lifetime usufruct that had been promised to the woman. The victims even paid rent to this fourth defendant for a time under threat of eviction.

The same thing that happened in Terrassa has happened in Sant Vicenç de Castellet. The same pattern, the same modus operandi: Carles Sallés Ballbé would put his hand under the swimsuits of children between the ages of 7 and 11 while they were swimming in the pool and touch them inappropriately. In Terrassa, he was caught and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in 2016 by the Provincial Court of Barcelona. This spring, he was released from prison and settled in Sant Vicenç de Castellet. Just a few months later, while still on parole, he was caught again: six families reported him on August 28 for sexually abusing girls between the ages of 7 and 9.

Two-year disqualification, fine, and compensation for Isabel Díaz Ayuso's partner. condemnation of the Attorney General of the StateÁlvaro García Ortiz arrived at the Supreme Court this Thursday, the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, unexpectedly. He arrived even earlier than anticipated, and in fact, the sentence had not yet been drafted. Who are the five judges of the criminal division who made this decision? And who are the two dissenting judges? We examine the profiles of a court with a conservative majority, and the names associated with the judicialization of the Process of National Reorganization abound.

The six young men accused of gang-sexually assaulting a girl in an abandoned industrial warehouse in Rubí (Vallès Occidental) on the night of Sant Esteve in 2022 have accepted sentences ranging from two to ten years in prison. After the six confessed and admitted what happened following an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office, the court issued the verdict orally, and it is now final. The lowest sentences are for the two defendants who did not actually rape the girl, but allowed the others to do so.

A man has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for abusing his one-month-old son in Montblanc. The man caused injuries that required surgery and one ICU admission in 2019The child suffers after-effects that, now that he is five years old and under the guardianship of the Generalitat (Catalan government), have resulted in a 70% disability. The ruling by the Tarragona Court ultimately acquitted the mother, who was also held in pretrial detention under investigation for the abuse.

Japan is beginning to open up about drugs: the country is further tightening its zero-tolerance policy on narcotics. Since last December, consuming marijuana is no longer just a social taboo or a legal gray area: it's a criminal offense. At the end of March, Tokyo police arrested two people for the first time—a 44-year-old man and a woman—accused of using cannabis after failing a urine test.

There are incidents on the pitch that can go beyond the injuries any player knows they risk, and sometimes the consequences go beyond the scope of sports discipline and must end up in the hands of criminal law. This is what the Supreme Court (TS) says in the ruling this Tuesday that upheld a six-year prison sentence for a man who, during a veterans' match, lunged from behind at an opponent who was bending down to help a teammate who had fallen. He gained momentum and kicked him in the neck, causing an irreversible spinal cord injury, with tetraparesis that results in an 80% disability and requires an electric wheelchair.

It's been 48 hours since Fátima Ofkir landed at Barcelona airport to return home to Hospitalet de Llobregat. The family and friends who welcomed her had been waiting for her for years. Ofkir has spent seven years—since she was 18—in a women's prison in Oman, sentenced to life imprisonment for bringing a suitcase containing seven kilos of morphine to that country. This Tuesday, she spoke publicly about what she experienced, for the first time since her release following an amnesty. "I will not waste this second chance at life, and I will do a service to society," she told the fifty media outlets who came to hear her.