On the Spanish right, it is taken for granted that the Spanish government is attempting to "colonize" all state institutions, including the royal household. A theory circulating widely, particularly among the far right, is that the monarch has been kidnapped by Pedro Sánchez's Spanish executive, which dictates his every move. Another version, supported by the People's Party (PP), suggests that the Moncloa Palace (the Prime Minister's office) is trying to influence all areas of Felipe VI's actions, but that this has not been successful due to alleged resistance from the Zarzuela Palace (the Royal Palace). The PP continues to staunchly defend the monarch—despite some contradictions—but Vox has distanced itself from the king and only defends the Crown as an institution, according to several sources consulted by ARA.

Kidnapping in broad daylight on a Madrid street. This Friday night, three vehicles intentionally rammed a fourth car in the Carabanchel neighborhood. After a shootout, the driver of the rammed car was pulled from the vehicle and forcibly taken away, according to EFE. It was 8:45 p.m., and numerous witnesses alerted the police after hearing the crash and gunshots. The National Police are investigating the incident as a kidnapping. Investigators are working on the hypothesis that only one person was traveling in the rammed car, and that this person was the kidnapping victim. The three vehicles that intentionally rammed the car were high-end models and quickly fled the scene.

"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.

Hichem Aboud (Algeria, 1955) has spent his entire life denouncing the Algerian regime through his books and articles. This keeps him vigilant, and he admits that "he could be shot at any moment." He says he has been kidnapped four times, and The last one was in Barcelona in October The past. Hooded men put him in a car and drove him to Andalusia. Just as they were about to put him on a boat on the Guadalquivir River to presumably take him to the African coast, the Civil Guard intervened. ARA reported this Tuesday that the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) and the Civil Guard have arrested five people as the alleged perpetrators of his kidnapping. However, the investigation has not yet reached the mastermind of the operation.

It was a Thursday in October in the upper part of Barcelona. It was just a few minutes before midnight when, suddenly, the neighbors on Raset Street heard loud screams. Some of them looked out the window and saw three hooded men assault a man and force him into a black Range Rover. No one heard anything more about the man until the next day: a thousand kilometers from Sarrià, the Civil Guard suspected some men who, at night, were loading something onto a boat on the Guadalquivir River. They approached and discovered that the commodity He was a man: Hichem Aboud, an Algerian journalist, best known for his opposition work in this country's Diet.