Jordi Pujol faces the judicial truth starting today, but at 95 years old, and 22 years after leaving the presidency of the Generalitat, history's verdict is already written and nuanced by the passage of time: an anti-Franco activist who suffered torture and imprisonment, later becoming a father figure to the president, with warnings and evidence about certain economic practices by some members of his family during two decades of absolute power in Catalonia and political influence in Spain. All the lessons on values that permeated his political actions turned against him when he confessed the truth. But eleven years have passed since that Sant Jaume day in 2014, and everyone has had time to distance themselves from the man. Only those who could never accept his six consecutive electoral victories are waiting for a court ruling that will finally vindicate them in the dying moments. In any case, a guilty verdict would confirm that everything happened simultaneously: the national reconstruction of Catalonia and a president who didn't always practice the ethical self-discipline he preached. Because everyone also knows that if Pujol hadn't said he no longer had any arguments against independence, nor had he written that "either independent or residual," the justice system would have left him alone, just as it had for so many years. And the recent conviction of the Attorney General, which makes a confessed fraudster a compensable victim, has demonstrated, in case the trial of the Catalan independence leaders didn't make it clear enough, that the Spanish justice system lost sight of reality long ago.

Psychologists know all sorts of details about their patients' lives and personalities, but professional secrecy obliges them to be discreet and not share that information with anyone. But what happens when a patient ends up in the dock or expresses an intention to commit a crime during therapy? In these cases, the law and professional ethics regulate the limits of professional secrecy and when it can become meaningless.

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.

"It was one of the most difficult moments of my career." A Mossos d'Esquadra officer from the Sant Martí police station admitted the difficulty of investigating two of his colleagues, for whom he had "affection and fondness." He said this during a new session of the trial against two Mossos officers—an agent and a corporal from the same station—and two mechanics for planting drugs and weapons in the car of a dockworker, Carlos L., with the aim of framing him. The name of the Mossos investigator who testified He had left several times during the trial.But to date, he has not been able to explain his version of events in the Barcelona Provincial Court. He was, to a large extent, the first to suspect that the drugs found in a car had been set up. According to the prosecution's account, after planting the drugs, one of the two mechanics called the Sant Martí police station's emergency number. He said his name was Alberto and that he was an informant for someone named Trini, an officer at the station known for having sources in the drug trade. This call served to report that there were drugs in a car, and the police operation was launched, leading them to the scene: the entrance of a gym near Plaça Francesc Macià in Barcelona. The drugs were found there, and Carlos L. was arrested.

"They started treating me well when my family told them I would get the money." A kidnapping victim recounted in court this Monday the two days he spent kidnapped between July 9 and 11, 2022. During that time, he was beaten, electrocuted in the nipples, and his skin was pierced with a drill bit. Eleven of the twelve defendants confessed to participating in the kidnapping or being accomplices, and at the start of the trial, they accepted a plea deal with the prosecution that gives them sentences that vary depending on their involvement, but in no case exceed six years. Before the agreement, the highest sentences the prosecutor requested were over 30 years.

Twenty years in prison for executing the Olympic Village killer. This is the sentence imposed by the Barcelona Court of Appeals, applying the jury's verdict. The popular court had already found the hitman and his necessary collaborator guilty in the murder of Valentín Moreno, who at 18 earned his nickname after murdering 24-year-old Carlos Javier Robledo in a macabre game: beating to death the first person to touch the jacket they had left on the floor.

Journalist Saül Gordillo admits that he sexually assaulted a female employee of the media outlet he directed, The Principal, on December 1, 2022. As has been advanced The Newspaper And as confirmed by ARA, the former director of Catalunya Ràdio and ACN accepts a year and a half in prison after reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution, which must now be ratified by the court. In this way, Gordillo avoids what would be the second trial for sexual assault of one of his employees: was sentenced to one year in prison for assaulting a 23-year-old subordinate that same night, after the company Christmas dinner held by the editors ofThe Principal and the after-party they held at the Sala Apolo in the city of Barcelona.

The battle between PSOE and PP to have the Official State Gazette, the battle for power, is being played out on previously uncharted ground. Yesterday happened something that had never happened in Spain:

The former French surgeon who committed sexual abuse and rape against at least 299 of his patients Joël Le Scouarnec, most of whom were minors at the time of the incident, was sentenced this Wednesday to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence provided by law for sexual crimes in France. The sentence also includes 15 years of socio-judicial monitoring upon his release and a ban on practicing medicine or working with minors. The sentence specifies that he must serve at least two-thirds of his sentence before applying for parole.

Kim Kardashian testified Tuesday at the trial of the alleged robbers who broke into her hotel room on October 3, 2016. The influencer and businesswoman She told the Paris court that the night she was attacked she thought she was going to die. The incident occurred during Fashion Week: she was assaulted and robbed of $10 million in jewelry.