The region of Galicia is in a state of orange alert (indicative of significant risk) due to predicted rainfall of up to 40 liters per square meter in a period of twelve hours, waves of 6 meters and intense winds..

These adverse conditions will spread towards the Cantabrian Sea during the afternoon, which will cause the activation of alerts of the same level in Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country..

Orange alert in Galicia

In Galicia, the orange alert will remain in place throughout the day. Waves are expected to reach up to 6 meters along the entire coast, according to forecasts from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) on its website..

In addition, in this region, rainfall of up to 40 liters per square meter in 12 hours and wind gusts of up to 80 kilometers per hour are expected in areas such as A Mariña (Lugo)..

Adverse conditions in Cantabria

Already in the afternoon, the alert for waves and wind will be activated in Cantabria; Gusts of up to 80 kilometers per hour are expected in parts of the region such as Liébana.

The strong winds and the sea storm will end up affecting the entire Cantabrian coast throughout the day.. Waves of up to 5 meters will be recorded in Cantabria, Asturias and the Basque Country, according to Aemet predictions.

The fire declared this Thursday night in a chemical company in the Valencian municipality of Potries, which forced residents to ask for confinement in their homes, is now under control, as reported by the Valencia provincial fire brigade consortium..

Nine fire crews, three command units and an air supply vehicle to refuel the firefighters' breathing equipment worked tonight to extinguish the fire, which was considered under control at 6:18 a.m..

The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has also reported the opening to traffic, from 05:55 a.m., of the CV-680 highway, which had been affected in several sections by the smoke and dust generated by the fire..

The fire broke out around eight-thirty in the afternoon this Thursday and fire units from the Gandia, Oliva, Alzira, Ontinyent and Catarroja parks, as well as a CICU ambulance, were sent to the area as a precaution, without any proof of personal injury.

As a precaution, two buildings near the fire area were evacuated and the residents of the rest of the town were recommended to close doors and windows, given the amount of smoke generated by the fire.. Thus, Emergencies have reported that the preventive confinement has been lifted in the municipalities of Potries and Villalonga and that residents can now return to their homes..

The Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat Valenciana activated situation 1 of the PTECV Territorial Emergency Plan and an Advanced Command Post (PMA) was established in the area.

The driver of a car has run over five people who were participating in a bicycle march in the Madrid district of Chamberí and has subsequently turned himself in at a police station and is being investigated for a crime against road safety..

As reported by Emergencies Madrid, the events occurred at 10:00 p.m. on Thursday at different points on Alberto Aguilera Street, when a car accelerated and knocked down five cyclists, of which only one had to be transferred to the Fundación Jiménez University Hospital. Díaz with minor bruises.

The rest, also with minor injuries and discharged at the time, were treated at different points on the street: two of them at San Bernardo Street, the same number next to the Plaza del Conde del Valle de Súchil and the fifth at the height of Vallehermoso street.

The wounded participated in the monthly “bicicritic” march that starts from Plaza de Cibeles and which on this occasion was held in support of Palestine.

At first the man fled, although he later turned himself in at the Hortaleza police station of the Madrid Municipal Police, where he was identified and is being investigated for an alleged crime against road safety, although he has not been arrested. according to police sources informing EFE.

The suspect was subjected to a breathalyzer test at the police station, which was negative..

In addition, the man filed a complaint against the cyclists themselves, as he claims that they attacked him and his partner and hit his vehicle..

According to the same sources, the attack was not motivated by the protest nature of the march in favor of Palestine..

Armando Blanco will leave the Provincial Executive Committee of Vox Cantabria, in which he has been for ten years, since before the party had representation in the institutions. Blanco himself has been the one who announced on his social networks his departure from the Executive, in which he will be replaced by Deputy Natividad Pérez.

Aside from this change, Blanco, who is also a regional deputy, will continue to maintain the seat he has held in the Cantabrian Parliament since the party entered the Chamber last term, after the 2019 elections.. In addition, he is currently the first secretary of the Parliament Bureau..

“After 10 years he temporarily left the Vox Executive in Cantabria. I hope you have the same success that I had in the decisions and that served to take the project to initially unimaginable levels.. I march with my duty fulfilled. Thank you to those who acted with honor and loyalty,” Blanco published in a message on his networks.. And although he has not alluded to the reasons for his departure, the party assures that it is not due to “any crisis” or internal conflict, but rather to guidelines of the formation at the national level..

As the president of Vox in Cantabria, Emilio del Valle, explained to Europa Press, the national leadership states that the members of the Executive have to have some organic position within the party and Blanco did not have it..

For this reason, it has been decided that Natividad Pérez, who is responsible for Institutional Relations of the training, will take her position in this body. Meanwhile, Armando Blanco will continue “in the game and collaborating” with the group, Del Valle has assured.

The State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersex and More (FELGTBI+) has urged this Thursday to eliminate the stigma associated with intersexuality and to stop considering it and treating it as a disease by the medical sector..

Intersexuality “does not represent any disease or disorder, but rather diversity,” said the president of FELGTBI+, Uge Sangil, according to a statement from the organization on the occasion of Intersexual Visibility Day.. This term refers to people who have genital characteristics of both sexes..

Eradicate invasive genital examinations

Sangil has urged that the bodies of these people “stop being seen as something strange, ugly and pathological, always shrouded in a high degree of secrecy, and that invasive and traumatic genital revisions” as well as “cosmetic” surgeries be eradicated. and indiscriminate against intersex minors”.

Therefore, the FELGTBI+ requires that any invasive genital and hormonal surgery or procedure, which does not aim to treat a real physical problem of the minor, be first approved by an ethical committee in which experts in affective-corporal diversity, gender, and gender participate. and with knowledge in the development of trauma.

Intersexuality, a taboo topic

For Iolanda Melero, co-founder of the intersex organization Kaleidos, intersexuality is a taboo subject. So much so that many intersex people, such as yours, have discovered that they are intersex as adults because neither medical professionals nor their families had ever informed them..

“My parents discovered that I was intersex when I was two years old because a teacher told them that my genitals were swollen.”. I had surgery when I was two and four years old.. Neither my family nor my doctor ever told me anything, only that they had to operate on me 'down there', without specifying why,” says Melero..

It was already at the age of twenty, at the doctor's office, when he heard the doctor tell another person that he had Morris syndrome and, upon investigating, he discovered what it was about: a feminine appearance and identity, but with hidden testicles and the Y chromosome.

Myths about intersexuality

To this day, “a multitude of myths about intersexuality that generate stigma and fear of visibility” continue to circulate, such as that they are the “third sex”, “hermaphrodites” or that they are “neither completely male nor female”, he reproaches. Melero.

And it requests more visibility for intersex people “from a non-pathologizing, non-stigmatizing point of view”, as well as that intersexualities be “included within the variability of the body in textbooks”.

The leadership of the PP strongly distances itself from the position exhibited by the Cercle d'Economia. During an appearance in Brussels after attending a meeting of leaders of the European People's Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has assured that his party is at the “antipodes” of what is proposed by the business lobby, which supports the grace measure if it is conditioned to two priorities: that the independence movement explicitly renounces unilateralism and that the grace measure is also agreed upon with the PP. But, in case there was any doubt, Genoa closes the door to that option. “We are talking about an agreement against the State,” responded the popular leader. “The amnesty is not a reconciliation, but a political transaction.

Hours earlier, the party's Deputy Secretary of Culture, Borja Sémper, reiterated on TVE that the amnesty is “deeply toxic” and has advanced that the Popular Party will vote against the law if it finally reaches the Congress of Deputies.. Génova thus separates itself from the business lobby that only a few months ago supported Alberto Núñez Feijóo on his way to Moncloa, and that now tips the balance towards a satisfactory investiture of Pedro Sánchez.

The popular leader has also reaffirmed himself in the words he spoke this Wednesday in Barcelona where, despite highlighting his differences with the independence movement, he admitted the coherence of his postulates in the negotiation with Sánchez and defended that “without normalizing relations, from the discrepancy, with Catalan nationalism we will not be able to improve the well-being of Catalans”, which opened a possible door to future contacts with Catalan nationalists. Feijóo also assured that he had “respect” for the figure of Carles Puigdemont, although “from the disagreement”. “I reiterate that Puigdemont and the independence movement are clearer and more sincere in their demands than Mr. Sánchez. And that shouldn't bother anyone,” he said..

Feijóo has stressed, however, that he has “never” spoken directly with the former president of the Generalitat, although he did admit a series of “indirect” contacts with Carles Puigdemont's party before his inauguration.. This is an issue that has caused strong discomfort within the popular ranks for months.. The PP denied for weeks that there was any type of dialogue with Junts, although it now admits that there were informal conversations in Catalonia, although not directly with the Genoa leadership..

One of the leaders of the PP who has publicly displayed his disagreement with the statements of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been Alejandro Fernández, president of the PP in Catalonia, who this Wednesday clashed again with Génova for expressing his “respect” for Puigdemont or his intention to normalize relations with Catalan nationalism. The aforementioned leader is waiting for Genoa to convene a regional conclave to remove him from the organic presidency, with the question of whether Fernández will try to run in the primaries against the criteria of the national leadership..

Changes in Genoa

The Popular Party has convened a National Board of Directors for next November 6, with the “adjustments” promised by Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the leadership of the PP and in the Congress and Senate groups as the main issue to be discussed.. This Thursday, Borja Sémper has hinted that it is not among his wishes to replace Cuca Gamarra as head of the spokesperson in the Lower House, after his name has entered the pools in recent weeks for that position.. “There are people much more capable of assuming that responsibility in the Parliamentary Group,” he said..

I am the son of a Holocaust survivor.

My father, who lost his entire family at the hands of the Nazis and their local collaborators, lived in Spain since 1950.. The Nazis killed his parents, his 16-year-old little sister, his cousins, his uncles and the rest of his family.. Also to all the inhabitants of his town and to all those who were part of his life in Belarus. Only he and his brother survived..

My father felt comfortable in Spain, among other reasons because, since it had not been invaded by Germany, he could go out knowing that he was not going to deal with anyone who was directly involved in the murder of Jews.. Collaborators who, in the rest of Europe, dedicated themselves to snitching on Jews so that they would be arrested and sent to extermination camps, or to directly participate in their annihilation..

Last October 7, we experienced another episode of historical anti-Semitism to which the Jewish people have been exposed throughout the centuries, from the Spanish Inquisition and the numerous pogroms in medieval Europe and in the Russia of the Tsars to the Nazi Holocaust. , with its six million Jews murdered. All of these episodes had in common that the victims—children, the elderly, women, entire families—were deserving of their fate for the mere fact of being Jewish.. Their condition of belonging to the Jewish people was enough to justify the greatest atrocities.

That day, a well-trained pack of murderers entered Israel and dedicated themselves to murdering children, the elderly, women, entire families and even people with disabilities.. Once again, their status as Jews made them deserving of the worst possible atrocities.. They killed more than 1,400 people and only stopped when Israeli security forces were able to intercept them..

The news of this massacre caused me and all the Jews enormous consternation: we went into a state of shock..

Thank goodness, I told myself, that I live in Europe, a continent where human rights and the protection of the individual prevail and discrimination is persecuted.. After the Holocaust, we thought that something like this could never be repeated.

However, in reaction to the massacre of October 7, demonstrations have been called in which calls have been made to exterminate the Jews, to gas them or to cleanse Israel of Jews.. Numerous articles have been published in the press justifying the massacre, blaming the Jews and encouraging the murderers.. We have also observed politicians, including ministers of the Government of Spain, shamelessly placing themselves on the side of the executioners, completely ignoring what happened..

Without going any further, last Saturday, in Barcelona, a mob attacked an establishment, a hotel owned by a Jew, remembering the Kristallnacht of 1938, the pogrom carried out by the Nazis throughout Germany and Austria when the crowd dedicated itself to raid and destroy Jewish businesses. A few days ago, the Melilla synagogue was attacked.

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans and my Spanish compatriots have participated in these demonstrations, hundreds of journalists have misinformed and distorted the facts and dozens of politicians have justified the savage violence of October 7.

All this has a name: antisemitism. The same anti-Semitism that poisoned Europe for centuries and culminated in the Holocaust.

But we must be aware that anti-Semitism is a warning about the danger that lies ahead for everyone.. If some believe that this begins and ends with the Jews, they are going to get the most unpleasant of surprises.. The ultimate objective is to end the regime of freedom, tolerance and equality under which we live in Europe.. Anti-Semites will end up imposing their ideas and practices in our societies.

However, it would not be fair to write these lines without mentioning all those good people who have contacted us horrified by what happened, expressing solidarity with the Jewish people, providing their moral support and offering their help in whatever way possible..

When I was young, my father, Max Mazin, told me on several occasions not to fool myself, that ancient anti-Semitism was still very present in society and that one day it would re-emerge in full force.. I looked at him in disbelief and told him that after the Holocaust that was no longer possible in Europe. That evil had been eradicated, the tremendous monstrosities had changed Europeans forever. The world had been vaccinated against this evil.

How wrong I was and how right my father was.

*Daniel Mazin is a businessman.

JxCAT has partially landed on realism after two months of negotiation for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. Between July and September, a mantra was repeated from the formation. “We are clear that in the negotiation with the Government we charge in advance,” the JxCAT spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, reiterated again and again.. The phrase was consolidated when last month Catalan was made the official language in Congress along with Galician, Basque and Spanish.. But at the beginning of October, this message disappeared and it is already assumed that to agree on anything he will have to trust the socialist leader..

This realism only affects the acceptance of political calendars.. Not so with its objectives, which remain focused on an amnesty law that humiliates the State in its preamble, a declaration of Catalonia as a nation by the Government, a date for an agreed referendum and the official status of Catalan in the EU..

The amnesty cannot be approved before the investiture, as JxCAT initially intended. Nor is it expected that the Catalan will be official in Europe before, eventually, Pedro Sánchez is chosen again as president. That was part of the pessimistic message that Carles Puigdemont communicated last Friday to the reduced version of the Junts executive, who visited him in the south of France.. The principles he established for the negotiation could be maintained, but charging in advance is over.. From this moment on, the training will have to be charged as ERC, when it is due.

“Now Catalonia begins to charge in advance” was the motto of the JxCAT national council in mid-September. The event was a display of the new strength that the party had, the result of the electoral results of the general elections of 23-J. But since the beginning of October the party itself was burying that triumphalism, since the Congress agenda did not allow the future law to be voted on before the investiture, as the independence party initially intended.. The same thing happened with Catalan in Europe: the European agenda is complex and the official status of Catalan will have to wait..

Something similar happens with the third key leg for JxCAT in the investiture negotiation: the recognition of Catalonia as a nation.. Moncloa and the PSOE refuse. So that the talks do not fail, the solution that has been sought is to put on the table the old debate of the national minority, that Catalonia be recognized as a national minority within the EU, a formula that is reserved in the community framework to groups of a certain ethnic affinity, such as gypsies, who have been systematically marginalized throughout history.

'A posteriori'

But if in the end some type of recognition is given to Catalonia, it will also be a posteriori.. So, as always happens with Pedro Sánchez, nothing is guaranteed. At the time, Oriol Junqueras accepted the reduction of sentences for the crime of embezzlement to try to run for public office again.. And there it is: disabled. JxCAT has made this type of situation a public mockery of the Republicans. Now, Puigdemont's men are faced with the same situation..

The times are worrying. For this reason, JxCAT has come out this week demanding a specific date for the official status of Catalan in Europe.. And the response of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, was that it will still take months. Once again, the acceptance of reality against what was going to be a pretension that would mark the difference with the Republicans and could be politically profitable in the face of an independence electorate.

The problem for JxCAT is the dissonance between the discourse for its militancy and its voters and the situation on the ground. There is no incentive for the party to return to the polls. And more with Puigdemont's immunity at stake for next November. In another way, but the same thing happens to the PSOE. A repeat election does not benefit you. But he won't be able to win the game five to zero..

Time delay

Times are long in politics. But in the age of social media, grassroots expect immediacy. How will the JxCAT militancy digest that their party has agreed to an amnesty that is later suspended when the Supreme Court sends a consultation to the Constitutional Court? The TC may delay its decision. The elections for the presidency of the Generalitat could even come and neither Puigdemont, nor Junqueras, nor the rest of the amnestied will be able to stand in the elections, scheduled for February 2025.. If something like this happens, no matter how much the measure is sold as a victory before the State, it could further demobilize a group that has already been immersed in deep discouragement for a couple of years.. This is what happens when you tell people that you will get paid in advance and then they find a bill in installments.

Intense week at the Constitutional Court. A marathon plenary session loaded with topics of special relevance will address in its final stretch a case without precedent until now and about which there is no doctrine. It will analyze several appeals presented on behalf of several minors and elderly people who were vaccinated against covid by order of the judges, after the parents or guardians disagreed on the matter.. The presentation fell to Vice President Inmaculada Montalbán, who supports that the protection of both those affected and those around them should be favored against other rights in conflict..

The appeals for protection were admitted in September 2022, as it was understood that they raise a problem that affects the principle of equality, the fundamental right to physical and moral integrity, the right to health protection and personal and family privacy.. They also warned then that the issue transcends the specific case because it raises a legal question of “relevant and general social repercussion”.

The appellants discussed the vaccination order. They alleged that the inoculation of a drug in the experimental phase must always be voluntary and, therefore, the judicial resolutions that forced them to inject themselves went against fundamental rights recognized not only in the Constitution, but also in international conventions and treaties..

Family courts suffered their particular wave related to covid in 2021. The vaccination of minors gave rise to a flood of requests for authorization or judicial stay of the inoculation of the doses in those cases in which there was disagreement between parents about whether or not their children should be immunized.. The doubts increased as this was the most vulnerable population and the differences in criteria, especially in separated or divorced couples, forced the Justice Department to rule..

In an overwhelming number of cases, the courts ruled in favor of the tutor who favored vaccination, and they did so taking into account the recommendations of the health authorities and the lack of evidence demonstrating that there is a danger.. The first sentences, first from Barcelona and then from Alicante, agreed with the parent who wanted to vaccinate against the one who opposed. To decide against a public recommendation of this magnitude, judges need concrete evidence of the existence of a risk in the particular case they are studying.. In this way, the only possibility for the injection to be provisionally stopped is for the person who opposes to present an expert report with precise data that proves the danger to the minor due to his or her specific circumstances..

The pioneering resolution, for example, was limited to assigning responsibility for the decision to one of the parents. The one who wanted to vaccinate, yes. The father expressed his rejection of vaccination due to the “uncertainty” about the effectiveness of the drugs and possible reactions. His children explained to the judge that they did not want to receive “the punctures” because the father told them about the “negative effects” of the preparations, although they did not know how to specify what those consequences were.. According to the resolution, the father did not argue his opposition to the vaccine “beyond information that he appears to have collected on the internet and social networks.”.

A second judge, in this case from Alicante, later ruled with similar arguments.. The judge highlighted that the opinions in favor of the vaccination of minors issued by both the European Medicines Agency and the Ministry of Health prevail, and the desire of the minor to be immunized against the opinion of the father, who questioned the benefits of vaccines, according to the ruling. The girl, who had already received the first dose before the trial, was inoculated for the second time a day after the ruling was issued..

In that case, the father and mother were separated and he filed a complaint after learning that his ex-wife had immunized the girl.. Their allegations were once again, as in the first case, generic.. “The vaccines are in the experimental phase, in the studies carried out they had not been introduced to minors, there is no medical prescription or prescription or there is no informed consent,” the ruling states.. He also alleged that the minor “suffered from a genetic disorder” without a prescription and doubted whether the side effects of the serums could constitute an aggravating factor.. And finally, always according to the ruling, “it questioned the benefits of vaccination in minors”.

The Provincial Court of Barcelona has closed the door for the Government to bring the accusation in the Negreira case, in which it is investigated whether Barça paid more than 7 million euros to the vice president of the referees to have favorable treatment. In a resolution to which El Confidencial has had access, the judges reject that the Executive can appear in the case through the Higher Sports Council (CSD), which appealed to its character as an injured public institution. This resolution thus overturns an appeal presented in June, three months before the judge in the case expanded his investigations to an alleged crime of bribery because the number two of the arbitrators is a senior official of the Federation, a public institution..

The Twenty-First Section of the Provincial Court of Barcelona responds to the appeal presented by the State Attorney's Office against the Court's decision not to admit the Government as an accusation. The Executive wanted to be a party to the Negreira case through the department headed by Víctor Francos, but the investigating judge – then substitute for the current magistrate Joaquin Aguirre – rejected it in May.. This coincided with the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office and Barça, who were also against the presence of the CSD in the investigation..

In its allegations, the Council appealed to its character as a public institution to be represented under the Sports Regulatory Law, which attributes to it powers to ensure the application of the Law.. The Prosecutor's Office responded that in this case the Government is not a victim of the crime under investigation. When the appeal was presented, in June, the Court had not yet expanded its investigations to the crime of bribery. At that time, what was discussed were crimes such as corruption between individuals in the sports field or unfair administration.

In this sense, the judges of the Provincial Court respond that if it were a crime of unfair administration, the injured party is the owner of the damaged assets and not a third party such as the CSD.. If there is a crime of corruption between individuals, those involved are the managers, referees or players involved in altering a sporting result..

The resolution, issued last week, concludes that the CSD's obligation is to establish which competitions are professional. He adds that the League – already in person – or the Royal Spanish Football Federation are responsible for managing the competitions and safeguarding fair play.. The obligation established by the Law for the Council to ensure the application of the Law has to do with the possibility of establishing sanctions within its scope, which is administrative, according to the Provincial Court.

The instructor of the Negreira case, Judge Joaquín Aguirre, issued an order in September which maintains that payments from FC Barcelona to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) José María Enríquez Negreira would indirectly constitute an alleged crime of bribery.. This type of crime does not require proving the adulteration of specific parties and contemplates more serious sentences than the crime of corruption between individuals that was until now attributed to those investigated.. Barça was automatically charged with this new type of criminal offense.

The head of the Court of Instruction Number 1 of Barcelona recalled that, when these payments were made, between 2001 and 2018, Negreira was vice president of the CTA of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), an “institution that has the character of a legal entity “public” when exercising functions delegated by the State for the regulation of a sport. That status, the judge points out, equated the referee with an official or authority and obliged him to be “impartial and have equitable treatment with all teams.”.