The Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Berja (Almería) has ordered the entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail, of Trinidad GS, the 55-year-old man arrested last Tuesday afternoon for the stabbing death in full street of the owner of a pub in Dalías (Almería) with respect to which she had a restraining order in force.

Sources from the TSJA have confirmed that the arrested man is being investigated for the crimes of homicide and breach of sentence, since he would have skipped for the second time in less than a week the restraining order he had in relation to the victim, for which he was was prohibited from approaching her as a result of an altercation that took place eight months ago when she tried to set fire to her premises.

In the judicial session, both the alleged perpetrator of the death and five witnesses to the events that took place this Tuesday, shortly before 6:45 p.m., in the Plaza del Olmo in front of the Church of Santa María de Ambrox, in the heart of Dalías.

According to the investigation, the arrested man would have attacked María RG, 48, when she was going to make preparations for a family celebration accompanied by her partner.. According to the initial investigations, the victim was surprised by the detainee, who would have stabbed him at least twice in the sternum with a weapon that has been recovered by the investigators..

The circumstance arises that the man was sentenced last Monday —just a few hours before the crime— to pay a fine of 960 euros for violating the prohibition to approach the victim, since the previous weekend he was seen just a few 50 meters from the La Casa establishment that the woman ran within an episode of threats that was captured and disseminated on social networks by several residents of the town.

The defendant had a restraining order since November 2022, issued by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 2 of Berja, which prohibited him from being less than 200 meters from the woman as a result of her leading an altercation in the pub of the victim during the night of November 8 of last year, when the defendant tried to set fire to an umbrella on the terrace.

The ruling, handed down firmly before the defendant recognized a crime of damages, also forced him to pay a fine and more than 1,200 euros in compensation for damage, since that same night he also kicked the police vehicle several times. woman causing significant damage to himself.

The sentence already considered proven at that time, eight months ago, that the defendant sought “regularly” the “confrontation and altercation with the owners of the premises, especially with the complainant”, who had two adolescent children and was married to a member of the Almería Fire Station.

The City Council of Dalías decreed three days of official mourning in response to these events —the last of them this Friday— since it also called a minute of silence to condemn the crime and in support of the family, who was widely accompanied at the funeral that took place this Thursday at 12:00 p.m. in the Parish of Santa María de Ambrox, with the assistance of authorities and members of the Almería fire department.

In the trial, which took place over four days in a Civil Court, the Board invoked the principle of “whoever pollutes pays”, while Boliden's defense argued that the company did not have the obligation to restore the situation of the affected land to its previous state

The Swedish mining multinational Boliden will not have to pay the almost 90 million euros that the Junta de Andalucía demanded for cleaning up the toxic spill caused by the rupture of a raft in the Aznalcóllar mine (Seville) in 1998, according to the sentence handed down by the Court of First Instance 11 of Seville.

The sentence, to which EFE had access this Friday and which dismisses the Board's claim, concludes that there is no “specific coverage that would insure the risk whose cost the plaintiff has assumed, that is, the obligation to restore things to state in which they were at the time they were affected by the activity”.

The Board will appeal

The spokesman for the Andalusian Government and Minister of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has stated that the Board will appeal, first “on appeal”, the ruling. In an audio, he has expressed the “most absolute respect” for this judicial resolution, which “is not yet final” and which comes after 25 years “of jurisdictional pilgrimage” by the Board both through civil and administrative channels.

“A case in which there are no precedents either in jurisprudence or in doctrine and that is part of the legal interpretation of the regulatory framework applicable 25 years ago that, of course, the Junta de Andalucía does not share,” he pointed out..

Fernández-Pacheco has indicated that the Andalusian Government is absolutely convinced of the existence “of a responsibility on the part of the Boliden Group and we have the firm intention of appealing this sentence first on appeal and going, if necessary, to the Supreme Court”.

He has stated that, among the reasons for appealing, is that we are facing “very bad news for Andalusia and for the environment”, without forgetting that the Board has already spent almost 90 million euros to repair the consequences of a mining accident “whose exclusive responsibility we understand is attributable to the Boliden Group”.

Another reason to appeal is that one of the main values defended by the Andalusian Government “is that of the most absolute respect for our natural environment and of course the principle that whoever pollutes pays”, as pointed out

A past bull, we are all bullfighters. Catalan has a coarser way of saying the same thing: once you've seen his ass, you know if he's male or female. Serves the idea for the days after the elections. There is no individual in the political and media universe who does not already have a theory to explain from start to finish what happened last Sunday. And yet, given that the error was huge in the guessing exercise, it would be possible that it was also huge in the interpretation of what happened.. Only that the hypotheses about what happened, unlike the surveys that had to pass the test of cotton from the ballot boxes, will not be able to be validated in any way. So we can all say what we want without reality being able to deny us. At least not all at once..

The insufficient results of the PP, as was foreseeable, have focused on the suitability of Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a candidate for the future. Beyond the analysis of his campaign, judged as bad by the results, what is being promoted now is a debate on his continuity as a future candidate and leader of the PP if Pedro Sánchez manages to be invested.

When doubts are raised and certain questions are encouraged, normally the person who asks them already has a prepared answer.. And that is where Ayusismo appears, warming up in the band with its fans and prescribers shouting from the stands that the time has come to leave. The loser goes home, the winner goes to the field. It is a debate more normal than breathing. One only has to look back and recover the ordeal to which Mariano Rajoy was submitted within the ranks of his own party until the third time, after the economic disaster of the shoe industry, he managed to reach the presidency of the Government.

It may be that in reality the reflection that suits the PP should not be, at least not impulsively, about people, but about what project it wants to offer the Spanish in the long term. And make that project more credible than it has turned out to be in the present without trusting everything to the mistakes of the rival, in this case, the sanchismo.

But the truth is that the discussion is there and will go further. Does Feijóo work for us? The enthusiastic prescribers of Ayusismo understand that their way of doing politics and explaining it is the best antidote against the left. But they start from two issues that are considered true, but that do not have to be: the Spanish would buy their product with the same enthusiasm as the people of Madrid and Vox would be almost expelled from the board.

About the first, the doubts are more than reasonable. It remains to be seen whether Ayusismo can be exported outside of Madrid. The president generates enthusiasm, but also great animosity. In addition, recent history tells us that when the right —beyond and even independently of its candidates— opts for energetically divisive politics through its areas of influence and prescription —Jose María Aznar in 1993, Mariano Rajoy in 2008 and Alberto Núñez Feijóo in 2023 (“Repeal Sanchismo”)—, it is not enough for him to win or to govern, things that are actually the same.

It can be argued against this that neither Spain nor today's politics are those of the past. That extreme polarization has changed the rules. And that today there is no better shot of energy to reinforce the options of the political family that you represent than populism.. There, it is true, Ayuso plays with an advantage over Feijóo. And this is where the theory comes into play that with Ayuso as a candidate, Vox would by force be reduced to marginality, because its voters would agree to be represented in the majority by her..

But this can also be questioned. Vox, whether for practical reasons —better for the right to govern alone— or for moral reasons, generates many antibodies. And that is why there are those who insist on seeing them as an anomaly that can be swallowed up as soon as the conventional right succeeds with the strategy. not even remotely.

That is a look as willful as naive. Furthermore, none of the issues that mobilize and explain the rise of the ultra-right across the continent are going to vanish by magic.. Neither in Spain. Vox will have exams and revalidations, it will do better or worse, it will have to overcome internal crises when it has to undertake leadership renewal and it will suffer, like all parties, when in an election its competitors succeed with the strategy and yours is wrong.

Those of Abascal have gone from 15.08% of the vote to 12.04%, a bad result, with 600,000 fewer votes. But it never occurs to anyone to think, for example, that ERC is going to stop being an important party in Catalan politics, and it has left 400,000 votes in that community alone.

Who sings the future obsequies of Vox clinging to the idea that his death is inevitable as soon as the PP proposes it, tilting with his candidates towards the most populist way of doing things, confuses wishes with realities.

The PP errs by allowing the conversation about its initials to be hijacked so soon by a hypothetical questioning of its current leadership and its substitution by Ayusismo. It is convenient for the right to digest the results and understand that the board is what it is. And that on that board, what it is up to them is to make credible a project of the modern, liberal and Europeanist right. And what happens to the right of the right, leave it to the extreme right.

On the night of July 23, people shouted “Que te vote Txapote!” on Calle Génova! and Ferraz street “They won't pass!”. Two disgusting bellows, which refer to the most sinister episodes in the modern history of Spain. In the first case, to the terrorism of ETA. In the second, to the Civil War. The chilling thing is that this occurred in front of the headquarters of the two parties that, presumably, represent constitutional centrality, have received the support of 70% of the Spaniards who voted (16 million between the two!) and bring together 80% of the newly elected congressmen. Worse still, no leader made the slightest gesture of disgust at the stupidity of his hosts, nor made a move to stop the uncivil spectacle.. To such an extent they seemed pleased by what their madmen howled that it would be said that the riot had been organized by themselves or their hitmen.

For the forgetful: Txapote is the nom de guerre of the murderer of Miguel Ángel Blanco and of at least 12 other people, among them, as co-participants, Gregorio Ordóñez and Fernando Múgica. “Let Txapote vote for you” is equivalent to equating, in the moral order, the current leaders of the Socialist Party with a serial killer.

“They will not pass” is the cry popularized by La Pasionaria in 1937 to encourage the militiamen who defended Madrid from the siege of Franco's troops. Those who shouted it in Ferraz equated, in the political order, the Popular Party with the coup army of 86 years ago.

Death, blood and hate in abundance. If Sánchez blamed the right for Spain to go back half a century (exactly to 1973, with Carrero exercising the power delegated by the dictator), how far has he taken us back with his Civil War slogans, to the revengeful pride for the worst massacre in our history? What kind of insanity has seized the Spanish political leaders? With moderates like these, why do we need extremists?

I refuse to believe that 16 million Spaniards share that schismatic and cerril spirit of the parties they voted for. I refuse to assume that the seven and a half million people who voted for the PSOE see Feijóo and his party as a group of fascists willing to liquidate democracy; and I refuse to accept that the eight million voters of the PP really believe that Sánchez and the socialists who support him belong to the same breed as the gunmen of a murderous gang. If that were the case, coexistence on the streets of Spain would be impossible, and it is not..

The two Spains that Machado cried have been resurrected, but with another formula: there is a Spain of citizens as opposed to that of politicians. The first one just wants to live in freedom and in peace, without yelling at her neighbor in the elevator “That I vote for you Txapote” or “You won't pass”. The second, that of the laboratories of power, inoculates society with massive doses of enmity and resentment.. It is useless to exchange accusations of Trumpism: in this campaign, everyone has been Trump. The only difference is that some have been more effective Trump supporters and that is why they have won by losing, just like Trump did in 2016..

The vote on July 23 definitively solidifies a politically binary Spain. Do not waste time counting right or left, moderate or exalted, constitutional or anti-constitutional: in both blocs there are abundant and intermingled examples of all these categories. In the bloc led by Sánchez there are moderates (oh, fewer and fewer) and extremists, there are nostalgic for social democracy, populists, communists and separatists, there are people who still feel some appreciation for the rule of law and suffer for it and proliferate those who despise it and enjoy destroying it, there are sincere Spaniards and equally sincere anti-Spanish. The path by which they have all ended up together will have to be explained to us by the historians of the future.

In the bloc led by Feijóo there are social-liberals and pure liberals, conservatives, a good dose of the new anarchist right, all of them democrats as genuine as those that can be found in the self-styled “progressive” trench; and, apparently together with them, vociferous expressions from the carpetovetonic cavern, heirs of the trabucaire priests of the 19th century, withered branches of Spanish reactionary thought and followers of contemporary national-populism. Those from that block still don't know why the hell they're together, that's why they publicly abhor each other in the mornings and have sex in the afternoons.

Block against block, the numbers of this election are clear. There are 12.3 million in the Sanchista bloc and 11.3 million in the right-wing bloc. When Sánchez boasted on Ferraz's balcony that “there are many more of us”, he was obviously not referring to his party. PSOE voters barely represent 60% of the power bloc with which it is preparing to govern for another four years. The rest is provided by the amalgamation of left-wing populists, orthodox communists, and nationalists of all ideological stripes that already operates, in effect, as a stable consortium..

Seen this way, it is true that there are more, although not “many more”, the Spaniards who prefer this political condominium to those who prefer the association of the traditional right with the extreme right. Sánchez set up his strategy of conquest and conservation of power years ago based on this calculation years ago—probably influenced by Iglesias: the grouping of the entire left with all the divisive nationalisms would be arithmetically unbeatable and would block the path to the right for decades.. A kind of pact from Tinell to the beast. To do this, he did not hesitate to strip the Socialist Party of several of its most valuable attributes: the autonomy of its political project, the vocation of the majority, the attachment to a reformism firmly anchored in the spirit and letter of the Constitution and the will to to structure Spain instead of adding to its disintegration.

On this occasion, for the founding strategic assumption of the Sanchista movement to be verified once again, it has been necessary for the PP, with everything in its favor, to carry out its worst electoral campaign since the days of Fraga and for Vox to work, as it always does , in its true endeavor, which is to liquidate the traditional center-right and seize the hegemony of everything that is not left, following in the footsteps of Le Pen, although in a more incompetent and shady way..

The Popular Party is called upon to make a long-range strategic decision: what to do with Vox. You can metabolize it as a necessary branch, as Sánchez has done first with Podemos and then with Sumar, or you can fight it until the Aznarista project of the big house of the right is restored, the only one that has allowed the PP to govern in Spain. What you cannot do is do both things at the same time and pretend that society understands you..

If you choose the first plan, there are more suitable people in the PP than Feijóo to carry it out. If it is the second, you have to define the playing field and transmit it much more clearly than in this disastrous campaign, in which it has never been known if the favorite was with mushrooms or with Rolex.

With this Congress of Deputies, Alberto Núñez Feijóo cannot be elected President of the Government and, even if he could, he should not do so. He would live the entire legislature harassed by his traveling companion, in a perpetual parliamentary minority, unable to carry out a bill or a budget and with a scorched-earth opposition in Congress and on the streets.. However, he has a legitimate right to present his program at an investiture session, unless Sánchez proves to the King that he has a sufficient majority (which he will not be able to do, because at least three of his essential partners will avoid visiting the head of the State).

It is probable that, beyond the demoscopic mirages, on May 29 Feijóo had within his reach the 160 seats he was looking for. The review of the journey traveled in two fateful months until the 136 that he finally obtained is left for his reflection. It may be that regional greed and strategic laziness have cost the PP leader Moncloa. Winning a debate is not enough to win an election.

With this Congress, Sánchez can be elected president. In my opinion, it shouldn't either, although I have no doubt that it will, paying the necessary bill, however astronomical it may be.. Governing for another four years with such a courtship (up to 19 parties, each one with its claim sheet), with a very high degree of accumulated personal discredit, with all the circuits of understanding with the opposition nipped at the root, with territorial power and the Senate against and an inevitable program ahead of a return to economic orthodoxy, all with support so fragile that not even a flight can be allowed, it cannot be a reasonable government plan for those who think of something other than themselves.

Does this mean that society must be violated by demanding that it vote again? Not at all, that is the worst of tragedies in a healthy democracy, although here we have made it a habit. Besides, it's doubtful it would do any good..

It means that we are taking a long time to find a Mario Draghi who will reestablish the space for consensus and, with the concerted support of a broad majority from which only those who exclude themselves are excluded, take Spanish politics out of the swamp for at least a while.

Something very bad, and perhaps hopeless, happens to a country when all sensible governance plans are dismissed outright as impossible.. The immediate question is who and why has made them impossible, because everything that depends solely on human will and also coincides with what reason dictates and what the vast majority want should be possible..

It is impossible, for example, for me to be 20 again. Which is why I reread with increasing attention the article by my friend Zarzalejos after the night of July 23.

The councilor for Con Málaga Toni Morillas defended in the plenary session this Thursday that the sum of the voters of her party, which is the Sumar franchise in the capital of Malaga, with those of the PSOE and Vox exceed those obtained by the PP in the municipal passes, for which he considers that this conditions the absolute majority achieved by the popular Francisco de la Torre and endorses the call for a citizen consultation on the skyscraper project in the city's port. An initiative that this formation, under its previous name of Adelante Málaga, already tried to promote in 2021, without achieving its objective.

The mayor argued that “the entire opposition bench is against it” and, in this way, seemed to add Santiago Abascal's party on the left-wing front that opposes the construction of the luxury hotel promoted by a Qatari fund. “If all the people who —in the last municipal elections— supported the PSOE, Con Málaga, and even Vox, voted in a consultation on this issue, the skyscraper project would not go ahead,” reiterated Morillas, who reminded the formation green that “on May 17, in the electoral campaign, he said that he would not support” the construction of a structure of more than 110 meters that would rise on the Levante dam.

“Absolute majorities are not a blank check,” the councilor snapped at De la Torre, whom she asked “not to be afraid of democracy”. “Call a popular consultation so that the citizens of Malaga have the opportunity to cast a ballot and decide if they want a skyscraper to be built in front of La Farola”, which is the only lighthouse in Spain with the name of a woman and which this week was declared Well of Cultural Interest (BIC).

It is not the first time that the acronym of the left resorts to the figure of the citizen consultation to try to stop the controversial project. At the beginning of 2021, Adelante Málaga was the one promoting this initiative, and the witness was taken over by the socialist candidate for mayor, Daniel Pérez, who presented the past local elections as a plebiscite on the model of the city that pivoted on the tower. This is what the Councilor for Town Planning, Carmen Casero, recalled, who looked at one bench and another and added: “The representation of each group is more than evident. Words are unnecessary”.

It must be remembered that in the municipal elections in May the PP recovered the absolute majority after two coalition governments with Ciudadanos and 117,577 votes. PSOE —69,840— and Con Málaga —17,655— lost councilors in the first term with the presence of Vox —18,476—. That is why the popular ones, who throughout these years have defended this urban project, feel that the citizens support their position, especially since the vote counts wielded by the councilor of the left-wing coalition do not reinforce their argument.. “There is no greater gesture of citizen participation than the elections themselves,” stressed Casero, who said that “it is lazy for the left to attribute the concept of democracy”.

Antonio Alcázar, who led the candidacy of the green formation, tried to distance himself from the opposition line that Morillas intended to build and specified that they are against the construction of the skyscraper in the port, but not that it be built in another part of the city. During his speech, he announced the abstention of the two councilors of his party to the motion presented by Con Málaga as they did not agree with the “tool” of the consultation because the plenary councilors “already have the mandate of the citizens”.

The representative of the PP, for her part, made ugly the left-wing parties that raised an initiative in defense of the characteristic lighthouse to re-introduce the issue of the port tower. “You, your government, have used this issue in a tortious way, under the protection of La Farola, in which we all agree, to try to knock down a procedure that is legal and legitimate, and that has all the guarantees of the agents involved, such as the state ones where they still govern”.

Toni Morillas, for his part, warned that they have a silver bullet to knock down the project from Moncloa. The one who until last April was part of the Ministry of Equality as director of the Women's Institute recalled that, “in administrative processing, the Council of Ministers will have the last word; and we have no doubt that the new coalition government will oppose there being a luxury hotel that covers our Lamppost”. “We have no doubt, but we want the people of Malaga to have the opportunity to do so at the polls,” he concluded in his last turn to speak. Minutes later, the 16 PP councilors rendered useless the 11 votes of the left and knocked down most of the points of the motion. Except for one, which was approved unanimously, and which defended the protection of the lighthouse.

The Community of Madrid has removed more than 66,000 tons of waste from the artificial lagoons of Arganda del Rey. The municipality has been surrounded by two residual oil pools for decades. Since 2014, the regional Executive has led the largest European project for the recovery of a natural environment. The key to the initiative lies in the second life of the spills: the extracted material – mostly tar – is later reused in other industries. The region's Environment Minister, Carlos Novillo, visited the place this Thursday: “The regional Executive has a great commitment to the circular economy to obtain new resources, as is being done with this initiative,” he said..

The origin of the disaster dates back decades.. A company dedicated to the regeneration of used oils was located in the current Southeast Regional Park. At that time, there was no legislation dedicated to the protection of the environment.. Later, the entity went bankrupt in the 90s and entered bankruptcy. “What we wanted is for those responsible to pay for the restoration,” says María Ángeles Nieto, from Ecologistas en Acción. It was not so. Instead, the public administration acquired the land in 2009 to take charge of the recovery of the area themselves.

Since then, Arganda del Rey has coexisted with two large tar ponds. The largest exceeded 12,500 square meters and came to accumulate 50,000 cubic meters of tar. The second had about 2,000 m2 and about 10,000 meters in volume. “We would have liked it not to have been necessary to invest public money,” continues Nieto. The recovery process is slow, but things in the palace are slow. The idea of reusing the extracted tar involves a tricky conversion process. The waste is turned into fuel for cement factories.

Renovation of six hectares

The second phase of a project led by the regional government to repair contaminated soil will begin in August. This stage will focus on the selective excavation and environmental recovery of the affected areas, with a budget of 22.8 million euros and a duration until November 2026.. In the first stage of the project, the extraction and energy recovery of the contaminated materials was carried out. This phase implied the use of suction pumps and mechanical methods to extract the materials from the lagoons.. However, an additional challenge was encountered when a denser and more viscous residue, extremely acidic, was discovered located below the water table of the aquifer, which required special measures to avoid groundwater contamination..

To facilitate the safe handling of the extracted materials, it was necessary to build an impermeable cement screen and other infrastructures for the collection and transport to the management plant.. At the plant, the contaminated materials were prepared and transformed into a solid fuel for future use —404 million kilowatts/hour have been obtained, equivalent to the amount of thermal and electrical energy consumed by 116,000 Spanish homes in one year—. The final phase of the project, which is scheduled for December 2026 through the end of 2027, will focus on the ecological restoration of more than six hectares of land previously affected by contamination.. The objective is to recover the biodiversity and health of the intervened area.

A Venezuelan magnate involved in various financial scandals in the 1990s, José Álvarez Stelling, paid for the construction of the last Bribón, the ship in which Juan Carlos I is currently sailing, after his third return to Spain since his departure to Abu Dhabi in 2020. Stelling attended the presentation of the sailboat at the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo in 2017, but his second surname was intentionally omitted to dilute his controversial history.

The friendship of Juan Carlos I with Stelling, a civil engineer and master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), dates back to the eighties, when the industrialist increased his assets exponentially until he accumulated one of the largest fortunes in Latin America. In the shadow of his main supporter, the all-powerful Venezuelan president Carlos Andrés Pérez (1974-1979 and 1989-1993), Stelling managed to get the figurehead of his empire, Banco Consolidado, to gather assets worth 1.9 billion euros of The time.

Carlos Andrés Pérez's friendship with Felipe González facilitated Stelling's jump to Europe. In 1987, the financier bought 55% of Banco Castro Canosa, a small Galician entity that was in trouble. And that same year, he submitted an offer of 2,000 million pesetas (12 million euros) to keep the Williams & Humbert wineries in Jerez, owners of the Dry Sack brand and which until then had formed part of the Rumasa conglomerate, expropriated by the government. Gonzalez government.

Companies from the food and beverage sector bid for Williams & Humbert but, against all odds, the Socialist Executive ended up opting for the proposal from Banco Consolidado, which until then had not expressed any interest in the Rumasa company, as account book king corp. The untold empire of Juan Carlos I, from Libros del KO. Stelling landed in Spain in style. He even opened his own bank, Astinvest, focused on large portfolios.

Those operations aroused the interest of King Juan Carlos, who approached Stelling to explore possible ways of collaboration.. From that contact arose a relationship that continues to this day and was not even in danger when bankruptcies and corruption cases began to haunt the Venezuelan banker.. In 1988, the Bank of Spain had to intervene in Banco Castro Canosa. At that time, Stelling already owned 90% of its shares..

But the darkest episode of the tycoon occurred in Venezuela, with the outbreak of the 1994 banking crisis, which forced the country's government to state the holding company of Banco Consolidado to try to guarantee customer deposits.. By then, Carlos Andrés Pérez had already been dismissed and imprisoned. Local authorities discovered a multimillion-dollar asset hole in the accounts of Stelling's banking group, who fled the country amid accusations of appropriation of funds and was tried for that episode, although he was never convicted..

Spain opened its arms. King Juan Carlos granted him the Commendation of Isabel la Católica for financing educational and cultural activities, although Stelling ended up taking up residence in London and refocused his career on real estate.. The monarch has stayed on numerous occasions at his home, a huge building located at 11 Farrier Walk, a picturesque cobbled street with restricted access in the exclusive neighborhood of Chelsea.

The sources consulted by El Confidencial assure that the King stayed in this property in January 2016, after spending that Christmas in Los Angeles and French Polynesia. And he also slept in one of the rooms of Stelling's house last April, when he flew from Abu Dhabi to the British capital to see the Champions League match between Chelsea and Real Madrid at the Stamford Bridge stadium, just 10 minutes walk from the home of the Venezuelan engineer.

After the abdication, Stelling emerged as one of the main benefactors in the shadow of Juan Carlos I, although his figure is one of the few who have managed to remain safe from the spotlight, even after investigations into the monarch's hidden fortune in Switzerland.. In 2016, the banker became the shipowner of the Bribón to replace another intimate of the King, José Cusí, who had exercised that function for four decades through the company Navilot SL.

At that time, the monarch wanted a new boat, one that would allow him to continue participating in regattas, despite his delicate state of health and his increasingly limited mobility.. Juan Carlos I opted for the 6mR class, a small sailboat of just 10.7 meters in length in which the skipper is safe and well protected from inclement weather.

Stelling commissioned the sixteenth example of the Bribón saga to the designers Juan Kouyoumdjian and Javier Cela, and the Garridos Shipyard in O Grove executed the concept. Subsequently, the initial design was modified by Astilleros Rodman de Vigo to move the position of the mast and try to make the ship gain sail area and be more competitive..

In May 2017, a year before Juan Carlos I's problems with the Geneva Canton Prosecutor's Office began, the former head of state traveled to Sanxenxo to attend the launch of the new Bribón. Next to the King, several friends and crew members posed, but also a man in his 80s, about 1.70 meters tall, in a white shirt, gray jacket and dark pants who went unnoticed, although he never left the monarch.

He identified himself only as “José Álvarez” and the organizers of the event assured that he was a businessman of Latin American origin who lived in London, without giving further details.. The tycoon was accompanied by one of his daughters, Violeta Mariana, also a fan of sailing.

Stelling read a short text on the same dock in the port. “It is an enormous satisfaction for me to be able to launch this boat here today, born in O Grove, which will begin its voyage in a town as fishing as Sanxenxo and verify the great work that the entire design and construction team has done during all these months “. “In addition, it is a great honor that King Juan Carlos has accepted to skipper this boat that will represent Spain in the world championship in Canada,” the Venezuelan banker concluded..

The act hardly had an impact, like other movements of the monarch. In September 2017, Juan Carlos I won that world championship with his new Bribón. As El Confidencial revealed in 2020, the monarch and 18 crew members of the ship flew from Santiago de Compostela to Vancouver in a private Boeing. They left on September 11, 2017 and returned to Madrid 10 days later on another charter flight, already with the champions trophy on board.

The bill for those two trips amounted to 440,000 euros, which were paid with funds from the Zagatka Foundation, the opaque entity with accounts at Credit Suisse of the cousin of Juan Carlos I, Álvaro de Orleans-Borbón.. In fact, those two flights to compete with El Bribón were included in the regularization of four million euros that the former head of state had to present in February 2021 to avoid a conviction for tax crimes in Spain for not having declared up to 8 million euros. euros on flights as a donation.

The ship paid for by Stelling is now the excuse that allows Juan Carlos I to return periodically to Spain, although until now no one has questioned the origin of the funds used to build and maintain it.. Not even the Tax Agency has done it.

*King Corp. The Untold Empire of Juan Carlos I, by José María Olmo and David Fernández, is a work by Libros del KO. can be purchased here.

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The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man in connection with the death of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found this Thursday with signs of violence in an apartment in the city of Girona. Sources of the investigation have indicated to EFE that the detainee, who was arrested in the same city of Girona, had maintained a sentimental relationship with the victim.

The Mossos found the body around 5:20 p.m., after receiving a notice that there was a dead woman in an apartment. Various police teams went to the scene, as well as members of the Emergency Medical System (SEM) who could only confirm the death of the woman..

The Criminal Investigation Division of the Mossos d'Esquadra has opened an investigation to clarify the facts, which has led to the arrest of the alleged perpetrator of the crime.

Girona City Council has called a silent rally this morning at 11:30 a.m. in Plaça del Vi to condemn the murder. If it is confirmed that it is a sexist murder, with the Girona woman there would be 30 fatalities due to sexist violence so far in 2023 and the sixth in Catalonia, according to statistics from the Government Delegation for Gender Violence.

To assist possible victims of sexist violence, the resources available 24 hours a day are 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, when the call is impossible, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which you can will send an alert signal to the police with geolocation