Every day 61 people disappear in Spain. The majority appear shortly after, without the alert transcending beyond the local level. But the family of Álvaro Prieto, the young man who died at the Seville station when he was trying to sneak onto a train back to Córdoba, was clear from the first moment that their son's case was not just another one.. Hours after losing track of him after going out partying and running out of battery, they announced his case in the media and his photograph circulated on the networks.. The search, full of difficulties, ended up becoming the most covered in recent years.. For better and for worse.

The SOS Disappeared phone number did not stop ringing from Thursday afternoon until the day the body was found.. After spreading the photo of a tall young man, wearing beige pants and a green shirt, calls came from half of Spain. Even from other surrounding countries, such as France or Portugal. Alleged witnesses claimed to have seen him in Lebrija (Seville), Huelva, Madrid, Zaragoza or Sabadell (Barcelona). Destinations where he could have arrived by getting on a train or, as the family initially maintained, in a stranger's car.

The National Police discarded numerous testimonies, also filtered by the association. Although there were several avenues of investigation, a witness who claimed to have seen him around the Santa Justa station, near the place where the body ended up appearing, served to focus the search.. The siege, however, did not arrive in time. The operation was heading towards the Renfe workshops when the train on which he died electrocuted moved for the first time and a television camera captured the image..

The agents received hundreds of hours of recording on Sunday, including those from a low-cost gas station that ended up being decisive. In the images, which would have cleared up all doubts, you could see how the young man climbs to the top of the train, climbing through the intersection between two carriages and falls dead into the hole where he would end up appearing on Monday.. The accumulation of work prevented the Police from reviewing the video, which would have indicated the train where Álvaro Prieto was, before it appeared.

“There were 72 hours of footage for each video,” say sources familiar with the investigation, who also point out the number of calls received and the difficulties of the investigation.. The media coverage of the case, which had allowed numerous data to be collected and witnesses to be leaked, also resulted in an unpleasant ending.. The television stations were broadcast live to report on the progress of the investigation around the station and, as a result of the interest generated, it was a cameraman who accidentally recorded the body live, an unprecedented case in Spain..

The agents were going to search the area of the workshops with dogs that same morning, according to the National Police, who acknowledged having previously combed the workshops where Álvaro Prieto was located.. However, it was “absolutely impossible” to see the body from the side of the train.. When they were stopped, the two cars were very close together and from the sides, from where the agents checked the trains in the area, the body could not be seen.. Only when the train moved to make room for another one that was going to be repaired, the cars opened, the body appeared and the television camera captured it..

“Many people are unaware of the working mechanisms of a search operation,” explains David Guzmán, from SOS Desaparecidos, who defends the police action in the face of the criticism received in recent days.. “The job was done correctly. Maybe they weren't there at the right time, but they weren't wrong,” he defends.. The associations and foundations for missing persons took advantage of the media impact of the case to remember that there are still families waiting for news “for years and even decades.”. For this reason, they asked the National Center for Disappeared Persons and the State Security Forces and Bodies to “continue to redouble their efforts to alleviate this situation, giving continuity to the investigation of unsolved disappearances and promoting knowledge of this reality by the great social majority”.

Carles Puigdemont held a meeting yesterday with senior officials of JxCAT in the south of France in which he was pessimistic about the progress of the talks for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, according to sources from this group familiar with the progress of the meeting.. The reasons are that there is no agreement on key points such as the declaration of reasons for the amnesty law or the figure of the international mediator demanded by the independentists.. Three weeks left and talks with JxCAT seem stuck.

Carles Puigdemont has been negotiating a key investiture for the future of JxCAT as a party for two months, despite the fact that he does not have any organic position in the party beyond having founded it and now being a grassroots activist.. However, he has assumed the dialogue with Moncloa based on his moral authority. The conversations, from what he said yesterday, are not at their best moment.

Among those attending this meeting were the general secretary of the party, Jordi Turull, the group's spokesperson in Parliament, Albert Batet; the president of the party, Laura Borràs; the speaker, Josep Rius and the speaker in Congress, Míriam Nogueras.

Puigdemont, who had been the one who called the meeting, came to inform them that the issue was no longer in his hands, but depended on the PSOE making a move because he had reached his limit.. Puigdemont's tone contrasts with the optimism that ERC communicates in its statements about the progress of the talks.

In essence, Carles Puigdemont explained that today the conditions to invest Pedro Sánchez are not met.. There is still one month left, until November 27, but the deadlines are now increasingly playing against the negotiators.

The former Catalan president explained that there is still no agreement on the preamble to the amnesty law, which the Government wants to be a prologue that justifies the Supreme Court's ruling on the process, as a guarantee that it will then be able to pass the filter of the Constitutional. But Puigdemont's party refuses this approach, basically because it means recognizing that the attempted breakup in October 2017 was a defeat, in part because they want the preamble of this legal text to imply a kind of apology from the Spanish State for what that they consider repressive excesses before the process.

Back to the mediator

Another point of conflict is the international mediator, on whom there is also no agreement. In Moncloa they completely reject this figure and limit themselves to proposing a monitoring commission made up of 50% by each of the parties.. But this seems absolutely insufficient to Puigdemont, according to sources familiar with the ins and outs of the negotiation..

Finally, the topic of the official status of Catalan in the EU was touched on, and here Puigdemont warned his interlocutors that it is no longer certain that Catalan will be official in Europe before the investiture, so there would be no possibility of holding on to that nail either. ablaze.

The former president asked JxCAT to remain faithful to his package of demands presented at his conference in Brussels last September: not to renounce unilateralism, international mediation and total decriminalization of the events of the process and the subsequent protests..

Turull will inform

Next Monday, Jordi Turull has called a party executive in Barcelona to inform the party of the progress of the talks.. Meanwhile, in the Consell of the Republic the vote promoted by critics of Puigdemont will end, demanding that nothing be negotiated with the Spanish Government and even less an amnesty that in the most radical sectors is experienced as a surrender.

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The Beti-Jai fronton, in Madrid, is celebrating its anniversary, and will celebrate it by opening to the public again. Many are unaware of this hidden gem of the Chamberí neighborhood, (Marqués de Riscal street number 7), a building declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2011 that served to host meetings of this sporting specialty at the end of the 19th century..

With a capacity for 4,000 spectators, it stopped operating in 1919, and pavilions were built on the open-air field to house cars.. It had various uses such as a car workshop, police station, prison, plaster and papier-mâché object workshop, among others.. It is the only pediment that remains standing in the capital and is the work of architect Joaquín Rucoba, author, among others, of the Arriaga theater and the Bilbao City Hall, the bullring and the Alfonso XII market in Malaga.. He had built a similar pediment in San Sebastián.

The Beti-Jai Frontón will open visits to the public in 2024. Finally, after years of requesting that visits be regular instead of sporadic, it will be possible to visit and get to know Beti-Jaihttps://t.co/PIWNAa9f80 pic.twitter.com/xyoEXgXwI8

— Frontón Beti-Jai (@betijaimadrid) October 1, 2023

In 2015, the City Council completed the expropriation process and acquired the Beti-Jai, thus beginning the work to recover it without altering its essence.. The rehabilitation works were completed at the beginning of 2019 and during this process meticulous research work was carried out so that the new one was as faithful as possible to the original.

Other projects

Thus, the delegate of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, has announced that, during the first months of 2024, everything will be ready for citizens to enjoy the fronton again.. Rivera de la Cruz has indicated that since 2020, after its restoration in 2019, until now, the facilities have received close to 24,000 visitors in a restricted manner.

On the other hand, the Culture delegate has also indicated that among the projects planned for this term is the opening of the El Capricho Museum and the restoration of the Casa Vargas and the Pavilion of the Hexágonos. Also the rehabilitation of the so-called Arco de la Victoria in the Moncloa area, the launch of the Typographic Printing Workshop of the Municipal Printing Press-Arts of the Book and the edition of the Poetry Collection.

• Reasons for Transhumance: why sheep will roam the streets of Madrid
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This Sunday, October 22, Madrid will receive some neighbors that we are not used to seeing walking through the nerve center of the city. Hundreds of sheep will walk the streets of the Madrid capital on the occasion of the XXVIII Festival of Transhumance, a festival that has been celebrated since 1994. This event vindicates the role of transhumance and extensive livestock farming as a tool for the conservation of biodiversity and the fight against climate change..

After a break due to the pandemic, the capital will resume its annual confluence between the rural and the urban which, this year, will dedicate a special tribute to all the people and institutions that have contributed to preserving the Spanish Network of Cañadas, Cordeles and Veredas with 125,000 kilometers in length and 420,000 hectares of surface.

On Sunday, October 23, we celebrated the 29th #FiestaDeLaTrashumancia in Madrid.
This year with a new route.

Find out everything on our website! https://t.co/2JeqIYyzwe

— TrashumanciayN (@TrashumanciayN) October 20, 2022

On this occasion the herd is led by Jesús Garzón, president of Transhumance and Nature and of the Council of La Mesta, by Marity González, first Mayorala of the Council of La Mesta, by three shepherds and a rancher, defended by 6 mastiff dogs, 4 careas Basques and 1 carea lions, which help the shepherds in their management.

Planned route

The tour will start at 9:00 a.m. in Casa de Campo heading towards Puerta del Rey. Through the King's Bridge the flock will cross the gardens to the Hermitage of the Virgen del Puerto, to ascend from there along the Paseo Ciudad de Plasencia and the Cuesta de la Vega to Bailén Street.. At 11:00 in the morning they are scheduled to enter Calle Mayor, accompanied by groups representing popular culture from the different Spanish nomadic regions..

Those who are walking through the center of the capital will be able to enjoy this rural spectacle and after twelve noon the sheep will cross Puerta del Sol and continue along Alcalá Street.. At 1:00 p.m. they will arrive at Plaza Colón and at 1:30 p.m. the ceremony will take place to present 50 maravedis (ancient Spanish currency) to the mayor for the passage of the cattle, in accordance with what was stipulated in the Concordia of 1418. At 2:00 p.m. the return along the same itinerary and farewell at the Casa de Campo.

Transhumance is a type of grazing that involves moving flocks of sheep at certain times of the year, normally in autumn and spring, to other areas of the peninsula, where the climate is more favorable for the animals and the cultivation of food. The most common routes are those established between Castilla y León and Extremadura and one may wonder why they travel through the capital itself and that is because this tradition and festival has a vindicating nature.

• War between Israel and Hamas: breaking news, live

This week, the National Police arrested four young people accused of jihadist indoctrination and recruitment in Barcelona, Madrid and Granada.. Two of them were a couple and another was the leader and they called him the Caliph.. Sources in the anti-terrorist fight inform El Confidencial that they carried out the operation – named Lobobasa – after detecting an increase in their activity as a result of the escalation of violence in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas.. The group had a recently edited video in which the couple called for “shedding blood” in Spain to recover Al Andalus..

Regarding the profile of those arrested, there are three Spaniards and one born in Morocco, but with roots in Spain for years.. They were all in good condition.. Three of them are in their twenties and the fourth is barely 30 years old.. Only one of those arrested had a stable job in a department store. Their relationship arose through the Telegram channels in which radical Islamists share content and which was managed by the Caliph.. In fact, the couple met on one of these channels and got married after receiving the approval of this leader of the group, according to the same sources..

The experts from the General Information Commissariat of the National Police followed his movements since last year. Due to their radicalism, they had accentuated their relationship in more restricted forums to which those who show greater determination have access.. Asked if there were signs that they were going to take action, the sources consulted by El Confidencial cite the video in which they called for bloodshed made “weeks ago”, although they have not yet detected any specific or elaborate plan.. The rise of violence in the conflict between Israel and Palestine had caused an increase in the consumption and dissemination of messages.

The arrests have been made in Huetor-Tajar (Granada), Cubelles (Barcelona) and Madrid. They are accused of self-indoctrination with terrorist purposes, indoctrination of third parties and glorification of terrorism.. The work has been coordinated by the Central Court of Instruction number 5 of the National Court with the support of Europol. This Friday, the judge of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, has agreed to send three detainees to prison—the one from Granada and the couple from Barcelona—for the alleged crimes of terrorist exaltation and indoctrination.. The detainee in Madrid has been released.

This operation occurred in the same week in which the Ministry of the Interior has decreed a reinforcement of security measures within the framework of Level 4 of Anti-terrorist Alert, which means high risk of suffering an attack.. This movement has occurred by virtue of the information handled by the intelligence services and after several deadly terrorist attacks in Europe.. Weeks ago, an Islamist murdered a teacher in northern France. This week, another jihadist terrorist killed two Swedish tourists in Brussels who came to watch their national team's match against Belgium..

🚩Operation against #jihadist terrorism

4 arrested for proselytism and #jihadist recruitment on #SocialNetworks in #Granada #Barcelona and #Madrid

The leader of the group massively consumed violent content and used #RRSS to recruit and indoctrinate other people pic.twitter.com/K637hEMb2Y

— National Police (@policia) October 20, 2023

According to the Official Letter signed by the Secretary of State for Security, which expands security measures, Spain has reinforced surveillance on the embassies of Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Sweden and Denmark.. In addition, the plan pays special attention to Jewish places of worship and religious events and dates..

The Palestinian Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, Hamas, has called for the solidarity of the Arab people for its cause.. In addition, one of its main allies in the area, the Lebanese militia party Hezbollah, announced this week a “day of unprecedented anger” within the framework of the visit of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to Israel this Wednesday..

The climate of political confrontation that Spain is going through will continue, even if Pedro Sánchez obtains support for the investiture and the country avoids the electoral repetition. Next year's European elections, scheduled for June 9, and the holding of the Galician and Basque elections will make it difficult for the debate to tone down. The cycle will last at least half a year more. Euskadi and Galicia have elections in July – the pandemic caused them to vote on an atypical day on the 12th – and although since 2009 the two communities have made the appointment coincide with the polls, this tradition could be broken.

The Galician president, Alfonso Rueda, has conveyed to his people that on this occasion “they do not necessarily” have to go hand in hand with the Basques because “the circumstances are different”, according to sources from the PP of Galicia.. The thesis is that Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu is interested in completing the legislature because the polls, they maintain, “are going badly for him”, while Rueda has polls that guarantee him an absolute majority.. The law requires Rueda to call at least 54 days in advance, so if he wanted to go before the Christmas holidays he would have to announce whether he would call on Monday or Tuesday to set the elections for Sunday, December 17..

This cushion could encourage the Galician to call alone, although that would mean placing all the focus on Galicia. The reason that during this time these two historical communities have gone together was precisely the interest of both of them in minimizing the impact of the national debate.. Something that both Rueda and Urkullu intend, although this time they choose to go their own way.. Popular sources assure that, no matter what happens, “people are going to vote in a Galician way”. “That's what we perceive,” they say.. A circumstance that fuels the commitment to set your own date. It has been suggested that they could be in March, but Ferraz does not rule out that he can call now and vote before Christmas. Faced with this hypothesis, the Xunta claims that they have presented the budgets, which Parliament must now approve before the end of the year..

Urkullu's team maintains that it is too early to make calculations about the date of the elections – they have signed up for a super Sunday with the European elections – and that for now “the only conversations we have had with Galicia are those regarding our joint presence in the Atlantic Arc Commission”.

But socialist sources suggest that Lendakari's idea would be to go directly to June, if in the end there is no investiture and a second general election is held on January 14.. But if there is a Government, they believe that “it intends to dissolve in January”, that the Chamber will not reopen and that the elections “will be in March”. “They do not want to be contaminated by an electoral climate that Spanishizes the Basques”. Unlike the opinion of the Galician PP, which sees that Urkullu is interested in holding on, in the PSOE they defend that the PNV has open fronts in “health, education and the interior” and, at a time when EH Bildu disputes hegemony nationalist, “if they close Parliament (when going to elections) they do not give room for the opposition to wear them down.

Rueda, vice president of the Xunta with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, took over for 10 years when he had to take charge of the PP after the defenestration of Pablo Casado. At first there were doubts about whether or not it could be consolidated. Feijóo's shadow was permanent. The popular president had a hard time adapting to Madrid and continually traveled to Galicia. But as the months have passed, each one has put himself in his place and the internal feeling is that he is within reach of repeating Feijóo's absolute majorities, although the PSOE says it has a lot of confidence in José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, a deputy in Congress and who From March to June of this year he was a Government delegate. This Saturday he will be proclaimed a candidate for the Xunta, after avoiding primaries with the resignation of Gonzalo Caballero. The rush is justified because the socialist leadership suspects that Rueda may dissolve Parliament at the end of this month and convene for December.

Sánchez's deployment in Galicia

The PSOE anticipates that it will make a “powerful bet”, with an “important deployment of ministers and the President of the Government” because, they maintain, Rueda “is not consolidated as Feijóo was”. Today, the economic vice-president, Nadia Calviño, from A Coruña, will be with the socialist candidate for the Xunta in an “institutional” day entitled “Galicia. Horizon 2030. “Preparing or changing.”

“The addition of the PSdG and the BNG is feasible,” they point out in Ferraz, despite the fact that in 2020, the Bloc took away their position as the first opposition party and that they are strong under the leadership of Ana Pontón. From Ferraz they assure that their surveys reflect a “drive for change.” The PP, they insist, “is facing a disaster” because it stripped Galicia to send Feijóo to the presidency of the Government and “could be left without Galicia and without the Government of Spain.” “The worst political move in memory on the Spanish board.” While waiting for Alfonso Rueda's decision, PP and PSOE are already preparing for another direct battle between Sánchez and Feijóo.

“Well”, what is said “good”, “well”, there is none. But everyone believes they are the definitive remedy against evil.. And everyone gets involved in great causes. Now it happens to us with the extreme left here and also in France with those of Melenchon or in the United Kingdom with those of Corbyn. Both follow a discursive manual that could well be told in ten steps..

One: terrorism does not exist. The good anti-Semite avoids calling Hamas what it is: a terrorist organization. That group, in its own founding charter of 1988, defines itself as a force aimed at the annihilation of Israel and in favor of “jihad” (holy war) as a method for the subsequent implementation of a “sharia” (a theocratic dictatorship)..

Two: there are no terrorists. Denying the root of the facts, the helpful anti-Semite proceeds to conceal the connections. The Iranian Foreign Minister recently referred to the “axis of resistance” of which the following groups are part: Hezbollah (Lebanon), the Shiite militias (Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan), the Houthis of Yemen and the Sunnis of Hamas. Those who promote and protect terror speak more clearly than those who row for them in our countries. But our society needs to keep in mind that Hamas is part of a terrorist network whose ultimate goal is to defeat the democratic model and install theocracy in its place, in our streets..

Three: Hamas has 100% legitimacy. Once the channels of reasoning have been deactivated, sentimentalization is carried out to induce the public to intuit that Hamas is the only valid representative of the entire Palestinian population.. It's also not true. They lack democratic legitimacy. The last elections that were held there were in 2006.. They have systematically prevented it ever since.. By the way, resorting to the heavy hand without hesitation. These terrorists have two enemies in their target: the external one (Israel) and the internal one (those who do not agree with their fundamentalism).

Four: the alternative exploitation of suffering. The disciplined anti-Semite enters fiercely to discuss whether or not there were 40 babies who were slit.. And, with the same vigor, it takes facts for granted before they are verified (as happened after the explosion in the Gaza hospital)..

Many women and men in Palestine are suffering horribly. Of course you need to empathize with them.. And the best way to do it is in the moral obligation to emphasize that all these people are not only victims of the Israeli extreme right, because they are also victims of those who run their territory and treat them, through corruption, as cannon fodder..

The Hamas leader is not sharing with the population the hardships caused by the attack he ordered. Ismail Haniyeh has been living like a sheikh between Qatar and Türkiye for years. Political romanticization almost always leads to an exercise in cynicism from which some elites invariably benefit..

Five: “No to peace” and the selective use of “diplomacy”. The demonstrations called by the extreme left in Madrid and other Western capitals under the concept of “solidarity with Palestine” are celebrated by those from Hamas, but they do not alleviate the anguish of the Palestinian people.. These mobilizations are not a “No to war” because under those flags they are not demanding a complete end to violence, they are not demanding the end of terrorism and the opening of a dialogue that saves lives..

That is an aspect that is being underlined little: those who defend the interests of Hamas today are basically the same ones who defended Putin's interests before the invasion of Ukraine.. Before they called for the action of diplomacy, in this case they did not. Their entire demand is that Israel do absolutely nothing after having received the greatest damage since 1945..

Six. Six. Six: Load reversal. This is where the anti-Semite carries out cultural appropriation, a basic resource in culture wars.. It does not stop at denouncing how much should be criticized, such as illegal settlements. Shoot for elevation to lock in demonization. It is Israel that is carrying out a genocide (clumsily, it seems, since the Palestinian population has only increased). In extreme cases, Jews are even openly compared to Nazis, applying a classic “argument” of anti-Semitism as recalled by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance..

Seven: the prohibition of individuality. Once the previous framework has been established, we now proceed to the packaging of the complete Israeli society. The nuances must be eradicated: in the same way that it is taken for granted that Hamas represents the entire Palestinian population without the possibility of exception, it is taken for granted and indisputable that the entire Israeli population is inevitably Zionist and entirely in favor of Netanyahu's erroneous policy.. It doesn't matter that there are other more sensible positions, nor that the prime minister has been very controversial for a long time, the only important thing is that all Israelis are equal, that is, equally evil. The denial of individuality as a prior requirement for dehumanization.

Eight: the alternative use of the law. The anti-Semite, now grown, stops respecting two of the basic principles of democracy: equality and proportionality. Democrats believe that the right to defend oneself must always be carried out within the margins of the law, they do not. They present the terrorist as a liberator and Netanyahu as a war criminal, all while Putin seems like a first-class guy to them.. This ability to selectively accuse is a sign of moral turpitude and cowardice that can also be seen, by the way, with respect to the imposition of the burqa..

Nine: the application of silence in the face of violence. Once the gasoline can has been knocked over and the matchbox has been placed close enough, the debate has been poisoned and the street has been filled, the anti-Semite waits for the tension to continue rising to the boiling point and ends. catching on anywhere. When that happens, as is beginning to be seen, silence is applied, there is no request to step on the brakes, there is no condemnation, they simply let themselves be done..

Ten: the destabilization of democracy. Anti-Semites are anti-systemic. That is the political reason that connects the extreme left with this movement and then there is, of course, money. These two reasons braid a new type of decline of the classic “the worse, the better”: the worse for Israel, the better for the enemies of the democratic model and the worse for democracy, the better for the extremes. It is what we are in, in that Islamized feedback of interests.

The National Police has arrested four people in the framework of an anti-jihadist operation, as sources from the investigation confirm to El Confidencial.. The work is carried out by the General Information Commissioner, who accuses those arrested of an alleged crime of terrorist indoctrination within the framework of social networks..

The sources consulted by this newspaper affirm that the suspects had been under the radar of the security forces since at least 2022.. After this operation, those arrested will be placed at the disposal of the National Court, which has coordinated the work and has determined that three of them will go to prison..

The arrests have occurred in Madrid, Cubelles (Barcelona) and Huétor Tájar (Granada) for jihadist proselytism on social networks. Three of them were carried out last Wednesday and the fourth this Thursday in Huétor Tájar, where the members of the General Information Commissariat of the National Police arrested a 22-year-old young man for his links to jihadist terrorism through social networks..

🚩Operation against #jihadist terrorism

4 arrested for proselytism and #jihadist recruitment on #SocialNetworks in #Granada #Barcelona and #Madrid

The leader of the group massively consumed violent content and used #RRSS to recruit and indoctrinate other people pic.twitter.com/K637hEMb2Y

— National Police (@policia) October 20, 2023

The head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, has decreed this Friday the provisional detention for three and freedom with precautionary measures for the fourth, in this case the one arrested in Madrid. According to the General Directorate of the National Police, investigators have verified how these people, linked through closed social media groups, had suffered a radicalization process..

Caliph, the founder

The investigation began in 2022, when experts in the fight against terrorism detected the so-called Caliph, who was the creator and administrator of several groups in which he tried to indoctrinate young people in the jihadist creed.. The Caliph energized his followers and created private groups to which he invited the radicals with whom he established greater trust and in which they spoke openly about the terrorist cause..

The monitoring of these groups allowed the identification of other members of the group, all of them young, who were interconnected with each other, although they did not know each other physically..

Two of them strengthened their ties and ended up getting married, with the authorization of the group leader and began to live in the same home..

This new relationship was a turning point in the investigation, since it was detected how both exponentially increased their level of radicalization, recording videos in which they demanded “shed blood to recover Al Andalus and restore the Caliphate.”.

The Local Police of Gáldar (Gran Canaria) and the Civil Guard have arrested this morning an individual who is accused of having beaten a man to death and causing very serious injuries to another, as reported by the two security forces..

The events occurred around 5:00 a.m., when the first reports were received that noises and knocks could be heard in a house located on Delgado Street.. When they arrived at the scene, the municipal agents found “two bodies on the ground with obvious signs of violence”, in both cases in the form of very forceful blows..

Less than an hour later, the Local Police arrested the alleged perpetrator of the events while he was wandering along a street in the urban area of Gáldar, still with blood stains, while a Civil Guard patrol helped the two injured.

The health services transferred the two injured people to the hospital, where one of them died and the other is still hospitalized “in an extremely serious state of health,” the City Council specifies..

The Court of Instruction number 3 of Santa María de Guía has taken charge of the case, which ordered secrecy regarding the proceedings..

The priest Pedro Francisco Rodríguez has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the Provincial Court of León for a crime of continuous sexual abuse of a minor. The crime took place in the Minor Seminary of Toledo during the period 2005-2007.

The newspaper El País reported on Friday that the sentence also forces the convicted cleric to pay compensation of 40,000 euros to the victim.. The court has validated the accusations of the affected person, who had Rodríguez as a spiritual guide since he was 12 years old..

In the judicial process, the affected person stated that the abuse began in 2005 and lasted until 2007, when he was between 14 and 16 years old.. The most serious incidents occurred in La Bañeza (León) during a series of 8-day spiritual exercises, although the abuse had previously begun at the Seminary..

During the investigation of the case, the Diocese of Toledo suspended the accused from his teaching duties and transferred him to Peru, where he spent time at the Moyobamba seminary..

The Archbishopric of Toledo issued a statement on Friday after the publication of the sentence, defending its actions since it learned of the accusations.. He assures that he respects the sentence, but also remembers that it is not yet final and that it is likely that it will be appealed, since both parties had expressed their intention to do so if the ruling was not favorable to them..

In the statement, the Archbishopric also expressed its “solidarity with the victim and his environment,” and noted that they are awaiting the final resolution of justice “to act accordingly.”. In addition, they are awaiting the resolution of the Dicastery for Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican entity that supervises the open canonical procedure and which has not yet concluded “out of respect for the times of the courts.”.

The Archbishopric clarified that since they received the “indirect news” about the case, “the procedures prescribed by current law were carried out to investigate its verisimilitude,” and highlighted that “the same justice dismissed the case on four occasions.”.

Furthermore, he emphasized that at no time has the complainant addressed the diocesan ecclesiastical authority to present a formal accusation at the canonical headquarters against the priest, who was removed from public ministry since the court began the oral trial against him.. “We reiterate our willingness to listen to the victim and welcome their pain and requests,” states the Archbishopric of Toledo.