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Cruz Ramiro- local news journalist and editor-in-chief. Worked in various media such as: EL Mundo, La Vanguardia, El País.

Beware of this new scam: this is how they managed to steal almost 18,000 euros from an old woman in Galicia

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Internet scams are the order of the day and anyone can fall if they do not take the necessary precautions. In these cases, cybercriminals seek to access mobile phones to steal money from the bank account or contacts to deceive other victims.. However, traditional scams continue on the street and the elderly are the ones who can suffer the most from these attacks.

A woman in Ourense (Galicia) was arrested by National Police agents last Wednesday, July 26, for defrauding an elderly person of nearly 18,000 euros, telling him that she was a former student and that she was going through a moment of financial need. This method of deception served to deceive the victim who gave him the money as a loan.

how did he manage to trick her

As explained by the Police, the events began in February, when the investigated woman, accompanied by a minor, asked this person for some money, alleging that she was a former student of his and that she did not have enough to eat.. Days later they met on the street, at which time the detainee took the opportunity to establish a first friendship contact and obtain the victim's telephone number..

In the successive months, between February and April, the fraudster asked her for money “with different invented pretexts” to, in theory, “attend to various needs that the investigated woman claimed to suffer and that misled the victim,” which she gave cash up to a sum of around 18,000 euros.

This money was given as a loan, the detainee always promising that she would repay it in the following months when she found work.. Finally, since the detainee did not return the borrowed money, she reported the facts and after various investigations, agents from the UDEF group of the National Police proceeded on the morning of the 26th to arrest her and subsequently bring her to justice..

A French woman dies after falling 200 meters off the top of Peña Vieja (Cantabria)

A 59-year-old French woman died this afternoon when she fell 200 meters off the top of Peña Vieja, in the Massif Central of the Picos de Europa. The corpse has been recovered despite the fact that it was in a place that was very difficult to access.

This has been reported to Europa Press by sources from the Civil Guard and the Government Delegation, who have indicated that at the time of the event, around 2:50 p.m., the woman was with her husband in this area of open forest when she fell off for unknown reasons.

After receiving the notice, members of the Special Mountain Intervention Rescue Group (GREIM) of Cantabria and the Asturias Civil Guard helicopter went to the scene..

The patrol of the Civil Guard of Potes has transferred the husband of the deceased to the health center of this town due to his state of anxiety.

This is the second death of a French citizen in Cantabria in less than 24 hours, as a speleologist died this Thursday after being trapped in a cave under exploration in the Cantabrian municipality of Soba, in the Portillo de La Sía area, due to a rockslide.

A 34-year-old man drowned in the San Juan reservoir (Madrid) after suffering a swimming accident

A 24-year-old man has drowned in the San Juan reservoir after suffering an accident while swimming in the Picadas reservoir, located between San Martín de Valdeiglesias and Navas del Rey, has reported Emergencias Comunidad de Madrid.

Apparently, the boy was swimming and has submerged for unknown reasons.. After being alerted around twelve noon, the 112 emergency services have activated different resources to carry out a water rescue with firefighters from the Community of Madrid from the San Martín de Valdeiglesias park, a device of the Red Cross and the Group of Specialists in Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard.

During the rescue work, the Red Cross troops have carried out a dive and have located the lifeless victim, proceeding to rescue him with the help of firefighters. As reported by 112, the body has been transferred to the shore, remaining in the custody of the Civil Guard.

Search warrant for a former Osasuna executive who has not been imprisoned

The Second Section of the Court of Navarra has issued a search warrant for the former director of Osasuna Jesús Peralta Gracia for his immediate entry into prison, having expired at 12 noon this morning the term given on the 18th to enter Volunteer in a prison. As stated in the judicial resolution, the Court “has learned through its procedural representation” that Peralta, firmly sentenced to five years in prison, is in Valencia.

The Court has proceeded to include this search warrant (request) in the corresponding computer system and in the automated files of the security forces and bodies, sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra (TSJN) have reported.. This morning the Second Section of the Hearing had notified its refusal to delay the entry into prison, set as the deadline today, at 12 noon, of the three convicts who had requested a postponement, the former president of Osasuna Miguel Archanco Taberna and the former directors Sancho Bandrés Ardanaz and Jesús Peralta Gracia. Both Archanco and Bandrés have collected their orders to enter prison, but not Peralta, who has not appeared.

Regarding the allegations for the postponement requested by Peralta, the magistrates indicated in that resolution that the medical-care reasons raised “of course are not indicatively sufficient.”. From the medical reports provided, the Court specified, in no way can it be estimated that the prisoner is “suffering from a very serious illness with incurable conditions.”.

Archanco, Peralta, Bandrés and former manager Ángel Vizcay (who has already voluntarily imprisoned), prosecuted in the Osasuna case for rigging, are convicted of the crimes of misappropriation, document forgery and sports corruption. After review of the case by the Supreme Court, the sentences for these convicts were 5 years in prison for Archanco and Peralta, 5 years and 7 months for Vizcay and 4 for Bandrés..

Arrested in Palma de Mallorca a woman who was carrying a goose in a plastic bag while riding a scooter

The Local Police of Palma have arrested a 48-year-old woman who was carrying a live goose in a plastic bag while driving an electric scooter on an unauthorized road.

As reported by the Palma City Council in a press release this Friday, local police officers were patrolling last Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. on Calle Llucmajor when they observed a woman driving an electric scooter on the road in direction Es Molinar.

The agents asked the woman to stop in order to proceed to denounce her administratively for driving on an unauthorized route, although the user ignored the order and shouted that she was not going to stop..

Immediately, the agents intercepted her and, asking her to stop again, she turned again with her scooter to return to Llucmajor street and head towards the center. Finally, the police officers were able to intercept her and observed that she was carrying a live goose inside a plastic bag..

The woman began to utter all kinds of insults against the police officers, while trying to flee. At one point, the woman pounced on one of the agents, digging her nails into his forearm and spitting at him.. He kicked another of the officers and also spit on him on several occasions.

Based on what happened, the local police proceeded to arrest the woman. It should be noted that the detainee was denounced administratively for driving an electric scooter through an unauthorized route, as well as for contempt for the agents. In addition, one of them required medical assistance for the injuries suffered, diagnosed as minor injuries. For their part, personnel from the Son Reus Animal Welfare Center took care of the goose.

Video | A driver flees from the police in a chase and ends up in the least expected place

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A police chase has caught the residents of Terrasa by surprise. The escape of a driver, recorded by a witness, looks like a scene from an action movie, but the situation becomes surreal when they end up in the least expected place..

Unimaginable moments of reckless drivers and passengers who do not measure the consequences for themselves and the rest of the users are experienced on the road. In this case, the cause of why the man was fleeing in the car and why the Police were chasing him is unknown.. The images of the leak have only reached the networks through the Twitter Social Drive account.

A chase that ends in the least expected place

In the video you can see how the gray car is traveling at high speed while a police car is behind and another surprises it from the front. To get away from both vehicles that were coming in both directions, he goes to his right where there is a path to enter a building.. What the driver did not know is that this exit would take him to the Court.

He finds himself with three cars behind, so he decides to turn around, but without much success he ends up crashing at the gates of the Court. It is at that moment when several agents come out to try to hold him.. In fact, it is seen how one falls to the ground when trying to stop the car.

Users have hallucinated with the video and the place where they end up. “Never have the words 'he was brought to justice' come true so quickly,” joked one user. “I wanted to walk in the door and go see the judge directly,” says another.

Eleven people from an organization that allowed the entry of illegal immigration arrested

The National Police of Navarra has arrested eleven people as alleged perpetrators of a crime of favoring illegal immigration, document forgery and belonging to a criminal organization.

The investigation began when verifying the high number of residence and work requests related to the same company. The requests were filed in different provinces in order to make it difficult for the plot to be discovered, as reported by the National Police..

A businessman allegedly delivered pre-contracts and contracts in exchange for large amounts of money to be able to start the procedures to regularize the administrative situation of people of Moroccan nationality. With this operation, the National Police has dismantled this criminal network.

The police operation, called 'Charco', has been carried out by agents of the Provincial Immigration and Border Brigade of the Superior Police Headquarters of Navarra, directed by the Investigating Court number 5 of Pamplona.

The investigators verified the existence of multiple applications for work permits and other documents related to a common link, a company whose business administrator denied any type of link with the contracts that initiated the procedures, giving the police various ambiguous reasons for Why did your company go out as a contractor for those foreigners?.

Despite this, the investigators continued to obtain evidence and clues that could shed light on the multiple false contracts that appeared in the petitions collected at the immigration offices..

After some time of investigation, it was possible to verify how said businessman had allegedly created a network that had several companies to cover his criminal activity, using Moroccan citizens within the organization to contact people in an irregular administrative situation, offering them to solve this problem. problem, as explained by the National Police.

To do this, the organization requested amounts of between 10,000 and 12,000 euros, being usual the request for an advance of between 2,000 and 5,000 euros in the act of delivery of the first pre-contract of work. With these fraudulent contracts, the foreigners went to specialized lawyers, without ties to the network, to initiate the pertinent procedures.

In the event that with this first pre-contract the residence and work application was not positively achieved, a second contract was given to him, to be presented in a different province to avoid suspicions on the part of the officials of the immigration offices.

Marlaska recognizes the illegal dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos and restores him to his post

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, has restored Civil Guard Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos as head of the Madrid Command. The Supreme Court annulled the dismissal of the colonel last March and the term to comply with the sentence expired on August 4. As El Confidencial revealed, Pérez de los Cobos was dismissed in 2020 for refusing to inform his political superiors of a judicial investigation that affected the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

Last March, the Supreme Court gave a period of two months to restore him to his post, but the Interior delayed the collection of the notification of the sentence to stretch the execution times and not carry out the reinstatement of the colonel until after the general elections.

The dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos occurred on May 24, 2020, after issuing a report to the Investigating Court Number 51 of Madrid that questioned the celebration of the 8-M march and 129 other mass events in the midst of the covid-19 crisis. 19. The investigations focused on the actions of the Government Delegation during the start of the pandemic for authorizing demonstrations such as International Women's Day.

The Government and the Ministry of the Interior found out about this diligence in the press and their reaction was to dismiss the command. The former general director of the body, María Gámez, acknowledged in writing that she had been relieved for “not reporting the development of investigations and actions of the Civil Guard, in the operational framework and of the Judicial Police, for information purposes”.

The Supreme Court concluded last March that the interference of the Ministry of the Interior in this case was not “admissible” because the dismissed man and his agents on Judicial Police duties were “at the orders of the magistrate.”. “She had ordered absolute confidentiality and that only she be informed,” the magistrates warned when annulling her dismissal.

Pérez de los Cobos was replaced in the Madrid Command by the then Colonel David Blanes. After the Supreme Court ruling, the Council of Ministers approved the promotion to general of this command on July 12, as reported by El Confidencial. His promotion has occurred in record time despite the fact that he obtained one of the worst grades in the merit and ability contest for promotion to general.

The news has caused enormous anger in the Armed Institute. Before being chosen by Marlaska for that responsibility, Blanes was in charge of the Barajas Fiscal and Airport Unit. Precisely during his time at the capital's aerodrome, the Delcygate scandal occurred in February 2020, in which the then Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos, was involved.. With the promotion, Blanes will have a new destination.

La Rioja repeals the Animal Protection Law with the votes of PP and Vox, who ask that it be the beginning

The La Rioja Parliament has repealed the Community Animal Protection Law at the initiative of the Popular Party, which has been joined by the two Vox deputies, whose spokesman, Ángel Alda, has asked that it not be an “image laundering” and that it be repealed others, such as Gender Violence.

The popular spokesperson Cristina Maiso has defended the processing by way of urgency, and in a single reading, due to the “simplicity” of the bill to repeal this law, since it only has one article.

For Maiso “it is urgent” to repeal this law, “much more than declaring a natural park”, in relation to the Alto Najerilla Natural Park Law approved by the past socialist government.

He has argued that the law “is generating many problems and is not serving the purpose for which it was created”. “An insecurity that means that she cannot stay another minute,” she asserted, recalling that the Popular Party “always opposed” her.

“We are here because the PP has the mandate to make things change”, he said while announcing that “it will promote a process to have a good law that respects animals and the rights of the sectors that work in them”.

It has been supported that the law enters into a “contradiction” with the state law, which will enter into force in September and “has not ended animal abandonment”, in addition to the fact that “during its processing the Advisory Council was not heard”.

The first “mismatch” that you have cited is that “it does not differentiate between pets and animals for use”. “In La Rioja, no animal is excluded and the national one excludes those used in specific activities, sports, grazing or hunting,” he indicated..

As for sterilization, he explained, “La Rioja law establishes its obligation and the state law says that it will be promoted”. Regarding the death of an animal, the regional authority indicates that a veterinary certificate will be necessary to determine that there have been no signs of violence, when the state authority only marks the discharge due to death.

He has believed that it is necessary to put, “at least, in question”, that the animals are left unprotected because if cases of abuse occur, he has said, the penal code can be applied; and the animal identification regulation is in force.

The socialist Jesus María García has seen a “metamorphosis” in Capellán, who announced “white glove” and “the first thing he does is present a proposal to repeal rights”. He reminded him that in his speech he announced to “amend” the law.

“I don't know if you realize that what you are doing is despising the work of La Rioja society”, he told him, pointing out the presence, in the debate, of the La Rioja Protective Association, which did a “tremendous job” to present the law in front of Parliament with 24,000 signatures.

“The first of the disgraces of the Popular Party”, has believed the deputy of Izquierda Unida, Henar Moreno, who has seen that “we are faced with the repeal of the law that responds to a popular legislative initiative; a law that mattered, therefore , to the citizens”.

He added that it is done with “agosticity” because “they wanted to announce it during the electoral campaign”. He has asked Chaplain what he thinks of “governing for a few”. “You come here to say that you don't give a damn about animal welfare,” he added, believing that “they could have opted for the path of reform” of the law.

The Vox spokesman, Ángel Alda, has seen that repealing a law with such a “limited effect” is an “image laundering” of the PP, for which he has asked the “popular” president, Gonzalo Capellán, “deadlines to repeal other indeological laws”.

In this sense, he has referred to the Equality Law, the Democratic Memory, the Trans Law, on Climate Change and Against Gender Violence.

These Spanish beaches fine you if you save a place with the umbrella in the sand

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Every summer the scene is repeated on numerous Spanish beaches. There are those who get up even before the sun rises to take a place on the sandbanks. The so-called 'war of the umbrellas' leaves many people unable to find a place on the shore because when they arrive they find numerous towels and umbrellas, but there is no trace of their owners. It is something more and more common, especially on the Mediterranean coast and on the Andalusian coasts, and that annoys many vacationers.

For this reason, several municipalities in Malaga have decided to fine anyone who carries out this practice starting this summer.. This is the case of Torrox and Vélez-Málaga, where fines can even reach 300 euros. The thing does not stop there, each neighbor whose sun loungers or umbrellas are seized by the police on these coasts will have to pay 50 euros to recover them.

This is where the controversy arises: can I be fined for reserving a place on the beach? Although the use of Spanish beaches is regulated by Coastal Law 22/88, each municipality can regulate and establish its own rules on this public space. Therefore, whether or not we can reserve a space in the arena will depend on the regulations that apply in the town where we are..

In which localities is it prohibited?

Malaga is not the only place where these sanctions are applied. In Valencia, this practice is also prohibited on the beaches of the capital, as well as in the municipalities of Gandía, Benidorm or Cullera, where fines can range from 750 euros to 3,000.

In Alicante, the city councils have also put a stop to reserving space on the beaches and then disappearing in the towns of Calpe, Altea, Torrevieja and Denia. In Castellón it is prohibited in the municipalities of Oropesa del Mar and Peñíscola. Likewise, in the region of Murcia it is forbidden to do so on the beaches of San Javier. In Cádiz it is forbidden to do it on the coasts of Tarifa, in Granada it is also regulated by the Almuñecar, Torrenueva Costa, and Motril Town Halls.