The National Police is investigating the causes of death of a 30-year-old German man in Playa de Palma, who had been missing since Monday.
The body was found this Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. in a building and the Homicide Unit of the police force has already begun investigations to clarify the facts.
Sources close to the investigation have assured Europa Press that, initially, death by violence was ruled out and the most likely hypothesis is that it was an accidental blow.
The Autonomous City of Ceuta currently has the lowest number of immigrant minors from Morocco in the last four years, 110 children, compared to the more than a thousand that it registered in May 2021.
As reported to EFE by Ceuta government sources this Wednesday, the number of minors has been gradually decreasing in recent months, either due to family reunifications, transfers to other autonomies (about 200) or because they left voluntarily and illegally to the Peninsula..
Thus, Ceuta currently has 110 children sheltered in the rehousing center of La Esperanza, as other alternative places where minors from Morocco had been sheltered have been closed..
The return to Morocco of 55 minors in August 2021 is still pending a judicial decision, a fact for which the then Government delegate, Salvadora Mateos, and the Minister of the Presidency and Vice President of the Government of Ceuta, Mabel Deu (PP) are being prosecuted. , for an alleged breach of the law in this process.
Both have argued that the delivery of the minors was made with all the legal guarantees based on the agreement signed between Spain and Morocco in 2007..
The use of the co-official languages in the two Chambers that make up Parliament has been for years a kind of whiting that bit its tail. In the midst of negotiations with the pro-independence parties to gain their support and compose the new Congress Table, as well as to explore the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, Yolanda Díaz reversed this Wednesday a specific proposal that already foundered in 2022. Today, however, the context is different..
And this nod to the Catalan and Basque formations, especially Junts and ERC, comes after the proposal by Carles Puigdemont's party to extend the use of Galician, Basque, Catalan and Valencian in the Senate was left in borage water with the dissolution of the Cortes. And just when the acting coalition government tries to limit this negotiation to the economic terrain, trying to silence the demand of the Catalan nationalists for a referendum on self-determination.
In Díaz's party, which today claimed the “important” role of the leader of the commons Jaume Asens to bring positions closer to former president Puigdemont, they did not want to clarify whether the proposal came from the Catalan coalition. They limited themselves to affirming that they pursue the same thing as a proposal presented by the Plural, ERC and PNV groups, to reform the Regulation: allow the use of the co-official languages during plenary sessions, in the commissions and in the written initiatives presented by the parties in the registry. Unidas Podemos also supported this reform.
For now, PP sources assure that they will vote against it again, considering it a new “cession” to the independence movement, which is not even included in the PSOE program. Strictly, the Sumar program does not specify anything about the reform of the Regulations of the Lower House that they are proposing today, but the majority that want to arm would guarantee them the absolute majority necessary to promote these changes. As long as the PSOE gives the green light.
Specifically, Díaz's party proposes to revive the reform of article 6 of the Regulation, to allow their lordships to express themselves in the official languages of their communities of origin, also contemplating the simultaneous interpretation of these languages to “give visibility to plurality linguistics of our country”. They make no mention of costs.. The Junts proposal in the Senate would mean spending 950,000 euros per year on interpreters, according to the estimate provided by this party when it registered this initiative, in 2021. That same year, with the norm then in force, which only allowed the use of these languages in highly valued cases, the Upper House allocated 355,000 euros of its budgets to cover these items..
The ball would remain in the hands of the PSOE, the same group that already voted together with PP, Vox and Ciudadanos against this initiative.. A year ago, the then parliamentary spokesman and today acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Héctor Gómez, announced his group's rejection of this initiative before even putting it to a vote.. He affirmed that it is in the Senate where “aspects of an autonomous community, of a territorial nature, are dealt with”, but also “sensitivities in all areas”. The same party that agreed to ERC's demand to force audiovisual platforms such as Netflix to allocate 15 million a year to production in Catalan and other co-official languages, in exchange for their support for the budgets for 2022.
It is also the party that endorsed the processing of the Junts proposal in the Upper House, to later request the extension of the term for amendments on dozens of occasions, in the face of criticism from the Catalan separatists of their “parliamentary filibustering”.. This Wednesday, neither in Ferraz nor in the socialist parliamentary group wanted to assess Díaz's proposal, which will remain on the siding without their support.
The controversy comes from afar. According to the EFE Agency, in 2004 Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya obtained the support of the PSOE to be able to use the mother tongue of parliamentarians in brief interventions, which they would later translate into Spanish.. A year later, the then ERC deputy, Joan Tardá, was expelled from the speaker's rostrum by the president of the Chamber, the socialist Manuel Marín, for not translating into Spanish the speech he had just made in Catalan.
In the Senate, despite being the Chamber of territorial representation, they can only be used for 12 years, and only in the debate of motions. Even the dialogue table between the central government and the Catalan Generalitat has addressed the revision of the Regulations of the Upper House to favor the use of official languages. And, like so many other times, the idea that Díaz rescues today ended up stored in a drawer.. Another thing is that the PSOE, which today needs the votes of ERC, Junts, EH Bildu, PNV and BNG to revalidate the coalition Executive, give a new 180 degree turn. So far, no one has wanted to rule it out.
Between August 2 and 15, Madrid lives a highly varied program of free activities on the occasion of the festivities of San Cayetano, San Lorenzo and La Paloma, in Embajadores/Rastro, Lavapiés and La Latina, respectively. In addition to games, tournaments, folkloric events, dances and children's activities, there are also a good handful of concerts, all of which are completely free to access..
The most outstanding concerts appear under the name “star performance” in the official party schedule. This year we are going to have artists like the Catalan rumba and ska band La Pegatina, the singer of Cuban origin Lucrecia, the versatile artist from Malaga Zenet or the flamenco guitarist Tito Losada. In addition, we will be able to enjoy tributes to Joaquín Sabina and Hombres G, with musicians performing their best-known songs.
On the other hand, the program also includes traditional performances (zarzuela, cuplé, etc.), performances by street musicians and DJ sessions. These are the concerts that you can see every day.
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An alleged brawl between clans has caused a collision in which up to six vehicles have been involved in Petrer (Alicante). The event occurred shortly after 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday: a car was driving at high speed through the streets of this town, and it seems that members of the rival clan placed a container in the middle of Calle Toledo to stop its passage.. However, the vehicle did not slow down and collided directly with said container, causing it to lose control and hit five cars that were parked a little further on..
One of the neighbors recorded a video of the moment, which quickly went viral after being shared by several users on social networks.. After the collision, the occupants of the vehicle get out of it, and members who are supposed to be from the rival clan quickly arrive.. After a tense verbal confrontation, the people who were in the ill-fated vehicle leave the scene on foot, pursued by members of the enemy clan.. On the other hand, several neighbors have come and did not give credit to the state in which the street had been. “My goodness, my car,” the owner of one of the affected vehicles continually repeats.
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According to various sources and witnesses in the area, these clans had already had other confrontations in the recent past, and on Thursday of last week they staged a public dispute on another nearby street.. Apparently, now they intended to ram one of their rivals with the car, and for that reason they tried to block them by placing the container. In a second video, we can observe in greater detail the surreal condition that Calle Toledo was left in after today's incident, with some of the vehicles seriously damaged and the remains of the container scattered around.
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Despite the spectacular collision, there are no serious injuries to be regretted. The National Police and the Petrer Local Police are investigating the event, after having cordoned off the area, and are looking for the people involved.
Securitas has won the contract worth 80 million euros that Sareb put out to tender with the aim of protecting its properties against 'squatting' and other types of criminal acts, according to the details of the award that appear on the State Contracting Platform.
Sareb approved the award to Securitas of the two lots that made up the contract on July 27. The digital 'VozPópuli' first reported the result of this tender.
In lot 1, the Securitas offer has thus prevailed over the offers of Prosegur and Grupo Control thanks to the evaluation of subjective criteria, since the objective criteria received a worse score. In the case of the second batch, it obtained a better score in both criteria compared to Prosegur.
The objective of the contract is “to have security measures and controls available to prevent and manage damage, acts of vandalism, occupation and any other risk” that could affect the properties owned by Sareb. Alarm installation is also included..
Given that the management of the properties is delegated to the 'servicers', they will be directly responsible for the orders, the management of the contract and its correct follow-up, despite the fact that Sareb is the contracting entity.
Securitas will have to provide static and dynamic surveillance services, implementation of auxiliary means, custody of keys, attendance services, technical maintenance services, daily, weekly or monthly reports and auxiliary services..
The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) have arrested the captain of the Gas Venus, the ship that caused an oil spill that occurred yesterday in the bay of Algeciras, when he was carrying out bunkering (fuel transfer operation between ships) in front of the anchorage of west of the port of Gibraltar.
As reported to EFE by sources close to the investigation, this is a 56-year-old man, who is being investigated for a crime of pollution, after the oil spilled into the sea due to an overflow from the ship's tank.. The RGP has reported the search for a Korean interpreter to help the investigation.
Meanwhile, the work to contain the spill continues, for which the port of Gibraltar remains closed. At the moment, the spill remains in the area of the Rock, with no traces of hydrocarbons reaching the neighboring Spanish beaches of La Línea de la Concepción, Los Barrios and Algeciras.
The first indications suggest that the impact of the oil spill has been limited to the area of Camp Bay and Rosia Bay and its surroundings, as the Gibraltarian authorities have confirmed through drone images and the overflight of a Spanish helicopter..
Likewise, the Gibraltarian Government assures that “no free-floating oil slicks have been observed moving away from this area, although continuous monitoring is being carried out and may change with the tides”.
The Gibraltar Port Authority put an oil spill contingency plan in place in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, while suspending all port operations to ensure that all resources were available to help combat the spill and make deal with the incident as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The head of Court number 2 of Utrera (Seville), competent in gender violence, has called the sister and the current partner of the 22-year-old Nicaraguan murdered in the town to testify, a statement for which he has also the alleged perpetrator of the events, the young woman's husband, has been summoned.
As reported to EFE this Wednesday by his lawyer, José Antonio Sires, the statement has been set for 10 in the morning this Thursday, the time at which the alleged murderer, of whom the deceased was separated at the time of the facts.
The statement of the sister and the couple aims to elucidate the possible motive for the crime, in a case in which the summary secrecy has been decreed, which could be lifted once the appearance before the judge ends.
José Antonio Sires has indicated that tomorrow the Prosecutor's Office will request the provisional detention communicated and without bail, having indications that the detainee could have facilities to leave Spanish territory in case of being released.
He added that, in the rest of the process, “the maximum sentence, possibly permanent prison” will be requested, because there are indications that he killed the young woman “consciously and deliberately”, in addition to the fact that he had no options to flee and received several hits, not just one.
This death has been confirmed by the Ministry of Equality as a sexist murder, which brings the number of victims of gender violence to 32 so far this year, 1,216 since 2003.
The body of the young woman was found last Monday in the house where she lived with a strong blow to the head. The man fled but was found and arrested shortly after.. Neither the deceased nor her husband were included in the Comprehensive Monitoring System for cases of Gender Violence, known as VioGén, nor did they have a record in the City Council's social services.
Victims of sexist violence and those around them can ask for help from different active resources every day of the week and 24 hours a day: telephone 016, email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es and the WhatsApp channel. at number 600 000 016.
In an emergency situation you can call 112 or the emergency numbers of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) and, if it is not possible to make that call, in case of danger there is also the option of activating the ALERTCOPS application, which sends an alert signal to the Police with geolocation.
The Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency, the Civil Guard and the National Police have located this Wednesday, 30 nautical miles from Santander, a sailboat with the United Kingdom flag that was carrying 2,000 kilos of cocaine inside, valued at about 70 millions of euros.
As reported to EFE early this Wednesday by sources from the Customs Surveillance Service, the sailboat was intercepted at sea and transferred to the port of Santander for custody after an “exceptional” operation on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea..
In a statement, the Civil Guard adds that this ship, a “sloop” type and named Night Falls, has been located in this international operation in which the Atlantic Analysis and Operations Center, the Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Center and Organized Crime and the UK National Crime Agency (NCA).
The crew members, a Spaniard, two Venezuelans and a Colombian, did not resist when they were approached this morning and admitted that they were carrying drugs, after it was verified that there were “a significant number of bales” throughout the boat..
The sailboat, 13 meters long, was not on a certain course, according to the Civil Guard, which points out that the drug may come from the illicit drug trade in South America and the ship “had just crossed the Atlantic to arrive at Spanish coasts”. .
The fact that it did not have a fixed course was “very striking, not only because of the weather conditions in the area, but also because it coincides with the usual practice in this type of operation, in which vessels transporting cocaine from South America or the Caribbean carry out a transshipment to another vessel in order to reach its final destination to make it more difficult for authorities to detect it,” adds the Armed Institute.
For this reason, the Civil Guard believes that the Night Falls sailboat would be at those coordinates waiting to transship the drug, although its position was communicated by the United Kingdom after searching for this ship for two days.
The vessel, which was without lights or location systems, was transferred after its inspection to the Port of Santander after this operation, coordinated and directed by the Anti-drug Prosecutor of the National Court.
The Civil Guard acknowledges that this operation is “exceptional” on the Cantabrian coast, but it is “one more” of those carried out on the so-called “Atlantic route of cocaine”, which use sailboats from South America to smuggle drugs , in the middle of the Atlantic, to other ships that introduce it to Europe.
The Government Delegation has communicated this Wednesday the arrest of one of the eleven members of the boat rescued this Monday after capsizing his boat off the coast of Melilla, being considered the skipper of it, which is why he has been accused of a crime against foreign citizens.
As explained by the government representation “the skipper of the boat, who was being identified when the impact occurred, has been arrested for alleged crimes against the rights of foreign citizens”.
This person, he added, “remains hospitalized due to a blow received as a result of the impact of the migrants' boat”.
Of the three GEAS agents who were at the scene at that time, he added, two of them submerged to rescue these people who had been trapped, while the third remained in the boat to be able to steer it and, in turn, help their companions load the migrants onto the boat.
The aforementioned source has highlighted that the rescue “was joined by two citizens who were in the area and who did not hesitate to dive several times in search of the woman and the baby.”. In fact, he specified, “it was one of these citizens, in collaboration with the GEAS, who managed, after several attempts, to get the little one out of the water”.
The Melilla Civil Guard Command and the Government Delegation have wanted to express their gratitude and appreciation to these two people “for the invaluable help they have provided in helping migrants”.
Likewise, the Government delegate, Sabrina Moh, has highlighted “the professionalism and good work of the GEAS agents during yesterday's rescue, while thanking the citizens for their collaboration”.
Finally, it has highlighted that the eleven rescued migrants of North African origin are all safe and in good health, although in the case of the man considered the boss, he is still hospitalized recovering from injuries, although as a detainee for an alleged crime of trafficking in human beings.
