The former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales is summoned to testify as a defendant at 12:00 this Friday in the National Court for the kiss he gave to soccer player Jennifer Hermoso at the World Cup trophy presentation. Sydney (Australia). 20 days after the RFEF assembly in which his co-religionists surrounded him with applause, Rubiales will have to give explanations before a judge and, according to the National Court, dozens of international media have been interested in the appearance: The New York Times, CNN, BBC, Associated Press, France-Presse, Bloomberg, Tass Russian News Agency, Sky Sports….

Just 450 meters away from the court, at the headquarters of the State Attorney General's Office, the phones have not stopped ringing either..

No legal news has attracted such interest at an international level throughout 2023 and, last Tuesday, Rubiales himself gave his first interview to English journalist Piers Morgan: “It was a joint, mutual act. He caught me in the air and, when we came down, we were very excited. There was no sexual intention or connotation. “I just appreciate”. This version allows her to discard the three requirements on which the crime of sexual assault is based: that the kiss represented an act against Hermoso's freedom as it was not consented by her, that it occurred against her sexual freedom and that Rubiales was aware of who was performing a non-consensual sexual act.

The soccer player denies this story and has already reported the facts to highlight that the kiss was not consensual, which was necessary so that the Prosecutor's Office could take the step of requesting her indictment for assault.. The magistrate heard the complaint on Monday and has requested from RTVE the videos of the moment of the kiss from all angles, of the minutes before and after and of the celebration both in the locker room and on the bus.. It has also requested that information be collected from Australia on the classification of crimes against sexual freedom in its criminal regulations.. According to legal sources, it is necessary that the requirement of double criminality be met, that is, that the act is susceptible to being punished in both countries..

Regarding the second crime included in the complaint, that of coercion, the Prosecutor's Office points to what happened after the kiss: “The player, as well as her closest environment [family and friends] suffered constant and repeated pressure from Mr.. Rubiales and his professional environment, with the aim of publicly justifying and approving the act committed against his will; Ms. Jennifer suffering a situation of harassment, against the development of her life in peace, tranquility and freely”.

Rubiales also took advantage of his interview with Morgan to deny this accusation and assure that he never pressured the soccer player to appear with him in the apology video: “I have never pressured anyone in anything.”. I categorically deny it. “I have not pressured or sent anyone to pressure Jenni.”. This second line of investigation in turn opens the door to charging other people, but in response to the reference that the Prosecutor's Office makes to his “professional environment”, he wanted to rule out a specific person before the English journalist: “Jorge Vilda [the “Already former coach] he has not pressured anyone, I know him”.

Dozens of cameras and microphones will be waiting for him this Friday at the doors of the National Court to find out if he maintains the same version, but also to find out the questions that the prosecutor and the magistrate have asked him.. Rubiales has crossed borders and, from now on, the focus will be on criminal proceedings.

Génova has already begun preparations for the “big event” that will be held on Avenida Felipe II in Madrid on September 24. The popular ones expect a massive influx to give a boost to Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the doors of his investiture with an event “open” to the citizens. It will not be a demonstration against the amnesty, as the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, initially proposed.. It will rather have a rally format, in which the Galician leader will be the protagonist and the acronym of the PP, the flag.. The management does not plan to formally invite any other political formation, thus avoiding another possible photo of Colón with Santiago Abascal. “Each party has its actions,” they advance.

Abascal had shown some interest in attending the mobilization promoted by the PP, but with conditions. The leader assured this Thursday that, at the moment, he did not know whether or not his party was invited to the event, and urged the popular party to clarify it “in the next few hours.”. He also insisted that Génova explain whether it was a “party act” or a civic mobilization against the amnesty before deciding whether or not to attend the meeting.. And the PP leadership has already dispelled all doubts.

The event will serve to establish the keys to the investiture speech that Feijóo will deliver the last week of September in the Congress of Deputies, in which he will present the axes of his political program and explain the reasons why he will not be president of the Government: no “bow your head” in exchange for Junts votes to reach Moncloa. Do not govern before “selling the State” to Carles Puigdemont.

The popular ones hope to gather thousands of supporters, but also citizens without political ties who want to come to an event whose motto will be the “defense of the equality of Spaniards.”. The Madrid PP, led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has already gotten to work to mobilize Madrid's militancy for the event. Last Tuesday night, after the intervention of José María Aznar, Génova telephoned the party leadership in Madrid to begin preparations..

At the event, the presence of the entire regional barons is expected, in addition to the two former presidents of the Government. Aznar himself confirmed this Thursday at COPE that he would attend the meeting if the party wanted it, and Génova added Mariano Rajoy to the agenda this Friday. Gamarra confirmed shortly after at a press conference in Congress that both José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy always have the door open. The last time the two leaders met on stage was in Valencia in February of this year, an event in which the two former leaders supported Feijóo and staged a reunion after years without meeting on stage..

Although at first Génova invited the leader of UPN, Javier Esparza, to the meeting on September 24 after the meeting he had with Feijóo in Génova, the party now reiterates its partisan nature and relegates the amnesty to the background of the meeting. This Thursday, the general secretary of the popular party was asked on up to three occasions whether they intended to invite Vox or not, to which the leader responded that “any citizen who considers it can join” and “if there are other organizations that want come, let them tell us”, leaving the ball in Abascal's court. But Genoa will not have the initiative. “It is an act of the PP that organizes and convenes the PP and is framed in the process of investiture of the candidate,” he remarked..

The PP thus cools the possibility of republishing the well-known photo of Columbus next week, but it could still be repeated on October 8. Catalan Civil Society has called for a large civic mobilization in Barcelona against the amnesty for this date, to which Santiago Abascal has already confirmed his attendance.. Other PP officials have done the same, such as Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, who assured on EsRadio that “everyone should go to this call”, including Alberto Núñez Feijóo, because “there can be no excuses for not participating.”. Isabel Díaz Ayuso also confirmed her attendance. In Genoa there is no progress yet on whether the popular leader will attend or whether they will send a delegation from the management to the event.

I'll be there.https://t.co/Pj6MoCzzQT

— Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso) September 12, 2023

Feijóo has taken a step forward and will complement the institutional offensive against Sánchez with a display of force in the street. With its initiative, sponsored by José María Aznar, the PP takes the lead over Vox and takes over one of the main opposition weapons of those of Santiago Abascal. For the moment, Vox has only confirmed its attendance at the Catalan Civil Society demonstration and has not called for any mobilization of its own. The party has also suspended until further notice VIVA 23, a massive event that the conservatives celebrate annually with their militancy, and which is now postponed, according to the party, due to the “uncertainty” of the political panorama.

The president of Vox in Extremadura, Ángel Pelayo Gordillo, assured this Thursday that the government pact with the PP in the autonomous community is not in danger, but he believes that the president of the Board, María Guardiola, must rectify her words about the relationship with his party, after saying in an interview that it is “little or none”. It is the first crisis in the regional Executive since the pact between both formations.

In statements after the first plenary session of the Extremadura Assembly, the Vox leader responded to the words of María Guardiola in an interview in the regional newspaper “Hoy”. Precisely, in this plenary session, Vox had already reminded Guardiola that he governs with his formation and has even given his support to an initiative by Unidas por Extremadura on free school cafeterias, which the PP has voted against.. “These are not accurate statements, Vox deserves the respect entrusted to it by voters,” the importance of its proposals cannot be “undermined,” Pelayo told journalists..

She has asked the president to “reflect” on her words, “if they have been transcribed exactly as she said them,” and to “rectify as much as possible.”. “If Mrs. Guardiola rectifies, as I am sure she will, there will be no danger, for now, of the government being called into question,” he expressed in response to a possible fracture of the government agreement.. Along these lines, he has stated that they will continue on the “path of collaboration” with the PP, in having “mutual respect and working”, and has described the treatment with María Guardiola's Executive as “cordial”, “nothing worth mentioning” .

For his part, the regional spokesperson for the PP, José Ángel Sánchez Juliá, has stated that Guardiola “does not see a government of parties”, but rather “of people who are working in an involved way to solve the problems of the people of Extremadura.”. Likewise, he has declared that they are working “side by side” to have a “stable” relationship and provide solutions to the “real” problems of Extremadurans with a “fluid” relationship..

“Insubstantial controversy”, “sterile”, with a headline that “may have been misinterpreted”, but that “at no time” speaks of a “difference”, since it is a “united, loyal, stable and constructive” government, he added. .

For the Socialist Group, deputy Jorge Amado has pointed out that the reality is that the PP did not win the elections, but the PSOE, and that María Guardiola has “a permanent mortgage with the extreme right”, so that “every time it deviates “Vox calls her to order a little bit.”

On this matter, the spokesperson for Unidas por Extremadura, Irene de Miguel, has expressed the opinion that the Government “is not working” and that Guardiola “has treated his partners with great contempt”, which is why she predicted that there will be elections “before the four years” of the legislature.

The worker from the municipal cleaning company of Malaga, Limasam, who was trapped between two cars in a work accident, died this Thursday after several days admitted in critical condition to the Intensive Care Unit of the Clinical Hospital..

The 51-year-old operator was last Monday handling a vehicle in the Limasam park, located in the Los Ruices area, when, when she wanted to get off, the truck supposedly continued moving and imprisoned her against another that was parked nearby..

The 112 Andalucía Emergency service received several notices, around 2:00 p.m., about a woman who had fainted.. One of those who called explained that the worker had been trapped between two vehicles and, although they had managed to get her out, she was unconscious..

Firefighters from Malaga, Local and National Police and emergencies 061 were mobilized to the area..

The Local Police have arrested a man in Elche (Alicante) for allegedly breaking a restraining order he had against his ex-partner and being wanted by a court.. The agents went to the scene after being alerted by a man who claimed that his friend was at his home “in a catatonic state” and that he had a restraining order against his ex-partner, who lived on the same staircase..

The events occurred on August 25. When the agents arrived at the house, they found that the detainee was standing in the dining room of the house without reacting, so, after checking his identification through a database, they verified that he had a restraining order from his ex-partner. , who lived on the same staircase as his friend and who also had a legal claim from the Criminal Court number 4 of Elche in force, as reported by the Elche town council in a statement..

Due to all these events, he was arrested and taken to the health center to assess his physical and mental state.. Once at the health center and after being treated by the doctor, he reported that the man had “faked” the “catatonic state”, for which he was transferred to the police station..

During his superficial search for subsequent entry into the cells, the man allegedly kicked, punched and scratched one of the agents.. Two more police officers came to support the suspect and also suffered injuries to their arms..

• Why Feijóo wanted to go to the investiture: the PP strategy
• Feijóo will ask Aznar and Rajoy for advice to prepare his investiture speech

After the general elections held on July 23, in which the results did not leave a clear candidate to form the government, the process of forming the new executive began.. In this way, and in accordance with the electoral calendar, the 15th legislature of Spanish democracy began on August 17.

That day the Cortes were constituted and the socialist Francina Armengol, former president of the Government of the Balearic Islands, was elected as the new president of Congress, a position in which she replaced Meritxell Batet.. After the round of contacts that King Felipe VI held for two days with the different political leaders, the monarch designated the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as a candidate, who had won the elections with 137 seats..

Since then, Núñez Feijóo has begun various meetings with leaders of other political parties in order to obtain the necessary support for his investiture.. To date, both Santiago Abascal (Vox) and Fernando Clavijo (Canary Coalition) have offered their support, although contacts with other parties have not ended.. In any case, we will have to wait until September 26 and 27 for the investiture debate to be held and its subsequent vote in Congress..

The leader of the PP needs to add 176 votes in favor to be invested as president of the Government in the first vote. This point, for now, seems distant, since he could secure 172 with the 137 seats of his party, the 33 of Vox, and the two that add up to the Canary Coalition and UPN.. In a second round it would be enough to have more votes in favor than against, something also far away, if the forces of the left unite to prevent it..

If the investiture is unsuccessful, there are two months in which Sánchez could attempt his investiture. For now it has its 121 seats and Sumar's 31. To reach the absolute majority required, the support of ERC and Junts would be needed, which have 7 seats each, EH Bildu with 6, the PNV with 5 and the BNG with 1.. Everything would depend on the Catalan independentists.

If this investiture does not go ahead either, the Cortes would be dissolved and the elections would be repeated, which could be held either on Sunday, December 17, or on Sunday, January 14, with an electoral campaign that in both cases would last only one week..

A 60-year-old man, a paraglider pilot, died on Wednesday afternoon due to a fall after taking off in the Gistredo peak flight area, in Noceda del Bierzo (León).

As reported by Emergencies 112 Castilla y León, minutes after eight in the afternoon they received a call requesting assistance for the injured pilot, also indicating that he was unconscious and probably deceased..

🚑 | 112cyl emergencies | Due to this paragliding accident in Noceda del Bierzo #León we have notified the @guardiacivil, the @bomberosponfe and @Salud_JCYL #112cyl 👇https://t.co/0CeYdOkfZC pic.twitter.com/kbykAWCnhf

— 112 Castilla y León (@112cyl) September 13, 2023

After the call, the Ponferrada Firefighters, the Civil Guard (COS) of León and the emergency coordination center (CCU) of Health Emergencies – Sacyl were notified, which sent Primary Care health personnel from the Bembibre health center, who confirmed the death of the paragliding pilot

• It is neither an SMS nor do they know your number: this is how the alert system used by DANA works
• Emergencies send a mobile alert to all Madrid residents through DANA

With the latest storm as a result of DANA that has hit much of the country, the effectiveness of emergency services alerts has been demonstrated. These alarms, which in principle can cause some confusion among citizens, can also save lives at a time when a sudden change in weather begins to destroy everything in its path, as has happened in the Community of Madrid..

Now, the Generalitat plans to carry out a similar test in the city of Barcelona and its surroundings. Civil Protection will launch the notices to all mobile phones found in the Barcelona area on September 14. It will be the first to be done in this area and it is the one with the greatest reach in terms of population susceptible to receiving the message in case of serious emergency, almost 5 million people..

REMEMBER❗

📳🔔The test of the #ProteccioCivil alert system on mobile phones in the #Barcelona area will take place next September 14

➡ The test will consist of four shipments per geographical area

More details 👇https://t.co/geyLVzkYXi pic.twitter.com/VVyaWu8GI8

— Civil protection (@emergenciescat) September 5, 2023

For better tracking, the shipment will be made by geographical sectors at different times of the day. Firstly, at 10.00 am the alert message will be sent to mobile phones in Vallès Oriental, Maresme, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet; at 11:00 a.m. in Barcelona; at 12.00 in the Western Vallès; and at 1 p.m. in Baix Llobregat and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.

Updated operating system

Anyone with a smartphone will receive a message on their screen, first in Catalan and then in Spanish, which will not disappear until their acceptance is confirmed.. You should know that, in the case of devices with Android operating system, it is necessary to have version 11 or higher installed, and at least version 15.6 in the case of iOS.

Likewise, all mobile phones that are in the area, even if they are people passing through, should receive the SMS. Specifically, the message they will receive will be the following: 'Civil Protection alert test of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Don't call 112, it's a test. In a real emergency you would receive instructions to protect yourself.'

This will be the fifth test carried out in Catalonia. The first was in Lleida, the Alt Pirineu and l'Aran on February 28, the second in the veguerías of Tarragona, Terres de l'Ebre and Penedès (April 12), the third in the veguerías of Central Catalonia and Girona (April 27) and the fourth was a repetition in Tarragona, Terres de l'Ebre and Penedès.

Andrés – fictitious name – is an agent of the National Police and last year he was one of the pillars of an investigation that allowed the dismantling of an important criminal organization that was wreaking havoc with its robberies.. A case with international ramifications in which various foreign agencies participated and which resulted in 29 detainees. Andrés was proposed for a medal in recognition for this work, but days ago he found out that it would not be awarded to him.. No explanations, no motivations. He simply saw his name on a list of police officers who, due to unclear circumstances, were deprived of recognition for which they met all the requirements.. A situation that affects more agents and that, in addition to generating great discomfort in the staff of the aforementioned body, the controversies surrounding these decorations are once again emerging..

“It's incomprehensible. And the worst thing is that no one tells you why. “They withdraw my proposal, but they maintain that of a colleague from another province who participated in the case,” says the aforementioned agent, stationed in Malaga, a province on which the Spanish Confederation of Police (CEP) has focused its attention to denounce a practice that generates discomfort in the workforce.

A spokesperson for this organization specified that six of those affected were going to be recognized for their careers; and the other two, for their participation in specific police actions. “All the proposals met the required requirements. But the national leadership of the body, without arguments, has said: 'Take eight off the list'.

The aforementioned agent points out that it was an “incomprehensible” decision that “demotivates and demoralizes”. “There were many months of work. The proposal passes the filters of the Provincial Police Station of Malaga and, three weeks before delivery, they tell you that you are out. And without the possibility of recourse,” he laments..

Shameful is the decision of higher authorities of the @info_dgp or @interiorgob to exclude as of 09/01/23 from the list of the ORDER OF POLICE MERIT🎖️ eight 👮🏻👮🏻‍♀️ @cep_cepolicia we request, leave this arbitrary decision void
@opiniondemalaga@eldiariosur@malagahoy_es pic.twitter.com/DvIOhMTi5l

— CEP Policia Malaga (@Cepoliciamalaga) September 4, 2023

“The medal thing has become a joke,” summarizes this police officer, something that they essentially share in the CEP. “Do you know how many medals were awarded last year to people outside the force? 523 throughout the country,” they point out from the union organization, which details that among the winners are “politicians, actors, journalists, company managers, bank directors…”.

Another member of the corps says that he, personally, does not mind these symbolic decorations, but he does mind those that are not awarded despite having earned merits.. Above all, because they can be decisive when it comes to a transfer competition or access to a position..

At the patron saint's festivities that police stations across the country will celebrate in the coming days, 611 of these medals will be distributed.. “A shame”. “We understand that judges and prosecutors are recognized, who work hand in hand with us, but a medal for police work should be awarded to an agent who spends all day breaking his chest in the street, not to an actress because she has made a police series,” says the union. For these people, they have proposed that a “decoration for citizen merit” be created, but “never with the same valuation, the same name and the same badge as those given to colleagues.”.

The unrest among the staff is increasing because the medals that were going to be awarded to them are white and they are not pensioned. What expenses do they have? Well, beyond the “approximately 12 euros they cost”, the payments that the Administration has to face for the judicial actions that the agents undertake so that their merits are assessed. This is the case of the 1,500 euros in costs that must be paid for the resolution of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) that rules in favor of two agents from the Ronda police station who saved the life of a women and those who, instead of a white medal, were given congratulations.

Complaints and judicial resolutions

This is not the first time that the courts have had to intervene in the decorations of National Police officers.. The National Court annulled the decision of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to award three retired commissioners with the highest distinction – the red medal, which entails financial remuneration.. A court made up of four judges warned the minister that he does not have “carte blanche” to grant these recognitions.

“I don't know if it's for political reasons.. But I am clear that it is unfair,” say the sources consulted about the eight Malaga agents affected, before regretting that a sense of discretion is transmitted that is above merits.. A situation of which, as they pointed out, is an example of the recognition of the former director of the Civil Guard María Gámez, who signed the dismissal of Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos who ended up overthrowing Justice.

MEDALS FOR THOSE WHO DESERVE THEM!!

After several written submissions where they did not provide us with the required documentation, we reported the facts to the Police Council.

We await a response to continue…

Medals for those who deserve them we only ask for objectivity and transparency pic.twitter.com/n8g4SzjYOc

— SUP Baleares (@SUPBaleares) August 28, 2023

Protests over the awarding of the medals spread to different provinces. Valencia is one of them, where a plan to celebrate the patron saint has been announced; while the Unified Police Union (SUP) in the Balearic Islands has raised its voice by leaving out of recognition a group of Manacor agents who participated in an important international investigation. “The medals, for those who deserve them. We only ask for objectivity and transparency,” they complained, before announcing that they would go to the Police Council to request information..

Manuel Herrero, one of the 10 most wanted fugitives in Spain, appeared on September 6 at the National Court to put an end to his escape.. Mexico demands his surrender for allegedly murdering a man along with another person in Mexico City. They maintain that he placed the body in a drum, filled it with cement and hid it in the cellar of a home.. “He will have spoken with the lawyers, he has weighed it up and…”, police sources conclude..

Born in 1989 in Valladolid, Herrero first moved to the United Kingdom and then to Mexico, where he set up a security company and allegedly became involved in this crime in 2012, at the age of 23.. The Mexican authorities requested his arrest in 2019, when he was already back in Spain.. Herrero was already “living a normal life in Seville” and this allowed for a “clean arrest”. However, the National Court released him and his real escape began.. “It is what we call a repeat: he is detained, he is released and, when the surrender is going to proceed, he no longer appears”.

The Fugitive Location Section of the National Police began to tighten the fence around him starting in 2020.. “First in Seville, which is where he had rented a home, but then we moved throughout Spain and also checked on family and friends”. Thanks to his time in the United Kingdom, Herrero spoke English fluently, so as the months progressed, they ended up suspecting that he might have sought shelter abroad.. “We have made arrangements outside and we thought that Dubai could be there…”. According to what he himself acknowledged after turning himself in last week, he changed hiding places at least every six months.. Blue eyes. Slim build. Scar on left arm. Anchor-shaped tattoo on the left middle finger. They also included his photograph in the Europe's Most Wanted Fugitives list, managed by Europol, to try to ensure that citizen collaboration reached abroad and accelerated the investigation.. “It is usual in these cases. “A lot of the information that comes in makes no sense, but some of it seems good and other countries are asked to collaborate.”.

His photograph thus began to circulate throughout Europe, but by then, Herrero already presented a very different physical appearance.. The “thin build” was gone, and he also sported a beard and long hair.. “If you found him leaving a doorway, it would be very difficult to identify him with that photograph. Just by looking at his tattoo on his hand it would be clear that it was him…”. Some fugitives look for these types of physical changes to make their recognition difficult, but in the case of Herrero, the same sources do not rule out that his new self responds to the life he has led since 2020, moving from one place to another constantly, looking always above man.

He himself decided to put an end to this flight a week ago by appearing on his own before the National Court.. Of the 10 most wanted that made up that list of May 2022, five have already been arrested, but Herrero is the only one who has surrendered. The police pressure to which he had been subjected for three years had already become unbearable, and the supposed acquittal of others accused of the crime opened the door to a more encouraging scenario. The final decision remains in the hands of the National Court, which after his release in 2019, will now have to decide whether to put him on a plane to Mexico.