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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.

Ciudadanos breaks with the PP in Euskadi and joins the Mixed Group with Vox

Ciudadanos Euskadi has left the parliamentary group that it shared with the PP in the Basque Parliament and will join the Mixed Group that is made up of the only Vox parliamentarian, Amaia Martínez. PP and Cs concurred together in the 2020 regional elections and with this decision, the coalition is totally disintegrated. The president of Ciudadanos (CS) Euskadi and Basque parliamentarian, José Manuel Gil, registered this morning in the Basque Parliament his departure from the Basque Popular-Ciudadanos Group to join the Mixed Group for the remainder of the legislature. “We have endured more than necessary,” Gil acknowledged..

The parliamentarian acknowledges that, together with the PP, he has suffered “tensions” and blames the fact that the agreement with the popular “has been hard”, as well as defending the same position in the Basque parliament as the party “that has done the most to destroy Ciudadanos “. “I have endured everything and there is a moment when it no longer makes sense, adds Gil after being asked by El Confidencial. The decision to leave the popular group in the Basque Parliament has been “taken for a long time (…) Being in a coalition with the PP is not very coherent”, sentence.

José Manuel Gil has assured that he will continue to defend a “centre”, “liberal” and “progressive” position, even if he does not do so under the acronym of the Ciudadano parliamentary group, as well as betting on “linguistic freedom, educational quality, the mental health, youth employment or the modernization of the administration”. The Basque elections will be held during the year 2024 and Gil does not ensure that the party he represents will do so under the “Ciudadanos” brand. The formation, according to Gil, is in a new process that aims to rejuvenate the brand in view of holding a hypothetical general election.

Five detainees from an Albanian gang for the death of a man in Castellote (Teruel)

The Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal organization with the arrest of 5 people for the homicide of a man on July 21 in the municipality of Castellote (Teruel), and another 2 for a crime against public health, all of them, both arrested as the victim, an Albanian national.

Likewise, the operation has dismantled three marijuana plantations in the surroundings of the Santolea reservoir (Teruel), with nearly 5,000 plants, in addition to a certain amount of plants and dried buds, the Civil Guard reports in a press release..

The events occurred on July 21, when a vehicle with French registration left two individuals injured with several stab wounds at the Health Center in the town of Más de las Matas (Teruel) to receive medical attention, before leaving the place with three occupants in the car. Of these two men, one died and the other was transferred with serious injuries to the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza..

At the same time, on the same night from July 21 to 22, another individual appeared with similar injuries in the town of Castellote (Teruel), user of a vehicle also with a French license plate.. This man was transferred by ambulance to the Más de las Matas Health Center, and later referred to the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza..

The investigations allowed the Civil Guard agents to locate, a few days later on the A-226 highway (Más de las Matas – Castellote), the vehicle that had left the deceased and one of the seriously injured at the Health Center, and arrest its three occupants.

In addition, they were able to verify that these French-registered vehicles were related to an investigation that began last March into three marijuana plantations located around the Santolea reservoir, near Castellote, “managed” and “guarded” by members of the gang Both the seven detainees and the deceased are Albanian men between the ages of 30 and 50. Five of the detainees are charged with a crime of homicide and serious injuries, one of them is also charged with a crime against public health along with the other two detainees for this same crime.

The replacement of Carles Mulet in the Senate exposes Compromís to a split

The election of the territorial senator that corresponds to Compromís has opened an internal crisis in the coalition that cannot be ruled out as a trigger for a total break between its two main members. The decision of the nationalist leg Més to relieve Carles Mulet, of the eco-socialist Iniciativa del Poble Valencià party, and replace him with Enric Morera, former president of the Valencian Parliament, has brought to the surface tensions accumulated for months within the Valencian supporters.

Mulet, one of the most active senators in the Upper House, had accumulated two legislatures and aspired to a third. Iniciativa interpreted that based on the internal electoral protocol for the regional elections (which sets a distribution of representation of 60% for Més, 35% for Iniciativa and 5% for Verds Equo) it was up to her to designate the senator, which is why the On Monday, the deputy spokeswoman, Aitana Mas, came to present a group proposal to the Board of the regional Chamber so that the current senator could once again be elected as regional representative.

The initiative was disavowed by the spokesman Joan Baldoví, who forced an internal vote among the deputies in which the nationalist majority of parliamentarians imposed the name of Morera, a historic position that the bases of the Més itself had left out of the regional lists in the Compromís primary process despite having held the presidency of the autonomous Parliament for eight years, the second position in order of institutional protocol of the Valencian Community. More interprets that after the result of the general elections on July 23, in which the co-spokespersons of Compromís, Àgueda Micó (More) and Alberto Ibáñez (Iniciativa) won a seat in the coalition with Sumar, it was up to the majority formation to occupy the post of the Senate.

In this crossroads of conflicting interpretations of the system of internal balances, months of disagreements have emerged within Compromís since the resignation of Mónica Oltra as vice president and de facto political leader of the organization. Despite having far fewer militants and a smaller organization than Més', Oltra's leadership compensated from its inception for the organic asymmetry of Compromís. His departure has led Més to occupy more and more spaces, a phenomenon that has become more evident with the loss of regional and municipal power, after the elections on May 28, as the institutional cake has shrunk.

With fewer charges to hand out, tensions have escalated. Without Oltra, Més has imposed its organic majority with Joan Baldoví as speaker in the Cortes, Àgueda Micó as leader of the list in Congress or María Josep Amigó as representative in the Bureau of the Autonomous Parliament. Adding regional and provincial deputies, both from Congress and, now, Senator Morera, the Initiative numbers show a distribution of political positions of 67.37% for Més, compared to 24.21% for Initiative, very far from what they interpret should be the 60/35/5 that marks the internal balance. “There is a lot of boredom. After the exit of Oltra, there has been a change in the ways of exercising the relationship of the Bloc (previous name of More). Some have interpreted as weakness what for us are expressions of wanting to relate through friendship,” say Iniciativa sources. “One of the parties has decided to take over the whole of Compromís, they reiterate.

“Very serious events have happened that break trust, because Més decided to break an agreement. A deep reflection is needed on what Compromís model they want”, declared Alberto Ibáñez, from Iniciativa, to the regional television A Punt.

“If Més had won a seat for Alicante, the Morera thing would not have even been considered. It is the Initiative that is misinterpreting the internal functioning”, they respond from the nationalist wing, which attributes the internal revolt to problems between families within the Initiative. “What has cost so many years to build cannot be destroyed in a moment,” they reproach.

The two parties blame each other for the fracture, which will be evident this Thursday in the vote of the senators in the Cortes with a probable abstention of the four Initiative deputies, including their deputy spokesperson Aitana Mas. It would be the first time that there has been an internal rupture in the vote. The atmosphere is heated among the ecosocialists, with voices that even propose a departure from the coalition and the exploration of an agreement with Yolanda Díaz to implement Sumar in the Valencian Community, which would imply a new fragmentation of the space to the left of the PSPV-PSOE.

The party of the acting Minister of Labor signed the confederal agreement with Compromís to jointly attend the general elections, but it does not have an organization as such in the Valencian territory. However, this crossing of relations between Sumar, Més and Iniciativa could be the antidote to the total break. For the nationalists, the link with those of Yolanda Díaz is the best remedy so that it does not become their competition in a local and regional key. Sources from Més even suggest that, in the event of Pedro Sánchez's investiture and the coalition government is reissued, the Valencianistas could even assume some governmental responsibility, although not a ministry. And in this scenario, Carles Mulet could continue contributing and find a new accommodation.

A 60-year-old resident of Irún dies in a motorcycle accident in Navarra

A 60-year-old resident of Irun (Gipuzkoa) died this Wednesday after colliding the motorcycle he was driving with a car on the N-121 road, in the Navarrese municipality of Murillo el Cuende.

The emergency management room of SOS Navarra 112 has received notice of the road accident at 11:55 a.m. and has mobilized the Tafalla Park Fire Department, an Advanced Life Support ambulance (medicalized) and patrols of Road Safety of the Pamplona and Tudela Provincial Police stations.

The collision occurred, for reasons being investigated by the Provincial Police, at kilometer 50.1 of the N-121, in the incorporation of the NA-5381 to the national highway, as reported by the Government of Navarra. The health services have carried out cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers, without being able to do anything to save the life of the deceased motorist, driver and sole occupant of the vehicle.

The body will be transferred to the Navarro Institute of Legal Medicine, where the autopsy will be performed.. Patrols of the Brigade of Attestations of the Pamplona and Tudela police stations of the Foral Police instruct the proceedings of the accident.

Puigdemont: stabilizer or blaster?

“Coherence and patriotism”, ask the guardians of conservative thought (FAES) in the face of the challenge of governance. Puigdemont's party confronts it with the same ingredients, although patriotism is not inspired by the same country. That is the anomalous fracture point between two conservative political forces. The PP, at a national level. Together, on a Catalan scale.

The same can be said of the PNV with respect to the Basque Country, if it were not because, unlike Junts, it has put forward an ideological and not a territorial issue: with Vox attached to the PP, there is nothing to talk about with Feijóo. On the other side of the barricade, the two nationalist lefts, ERC and Bildu, do the same, out of declared aversion to a right-wing government, without prejudice to keeping their independence aspirations alive through dialogue, negotiation and never-ending shortcuts..

it is not opinion. It is a review, in view of the confused electoral count on Sunday. If the ideological is not subordinated to the identity, the Junts-PP alignment in the cause of Feijóo for president would have plenty of coherence and little patriotism. In his hand it would be to seat the applicant in the Moncloa. But not the case, barring unlikely entangling mischief of the ancient convergents.

If the two seats at stake at this time (one in Girona, the other in Madrid) do not alter the foreseeable relationship of forces between Sánchez's coastal theorists and those of Feijóo, Sánchez's continuity in Moncloa would also be at the mercy of the fugitive of Waterloo (the abstention of its seven deputies would suffice).

But their starting demands (self-determination and amnesty) are unassumable. Also for Sánchez, no matter how much he is taken for an accomplice of separatism. His self-serving concessions to peripheral nationalisms (pardon, reform of the Penal Code, rapprochement of prisoners, withdrawal of the Civil Guard from the roads of Navarra) never stepped on the red lines of access to the “removal process” that the FAES theologians fear.. Namely: unique and indivisible national sovereignty and principle of territorial integrity.

The forcefulness of the position of the President of the Government, now in office, does not allow frivolization with his presumed intention of giving what the independentistas ask of him in exchange for remaining in power. He repeated it during the campaign: “The independentistas ask for amnesty and self-determination, but they have not had and will not have either of the two things”.

The speculative field is limited between that conclusive position of Sánchez and the initial demands of Puigdemont. Along the way, we will see the according and how of the dialogue entrusted to Jaume Asens (Sumar). It's too early to speculate on the governance formula on a hopelessly shaky political bed.

After all, governability and stability of the State are concepts that are incompatible precisely with those who are called upon to make the State they hate governable.. Not only the seven deputies of Junts. Also the 13 that make up the strategic alliance of the pro-independence left (ERC and Bildu), which are safe props for the continuity of the second coalition government of democracy (PSOE-Sumar). And this is the main anomaly of the system that makes it possible.

So far, the alternative scenario to a predictable failed investiture of Núñez Feijóo, who has every right to ask for the confidence of Congress to preside over the Government of the nation as the winning party in the July 23 elections.. All the more reason, if the pending seats (CERA count) change the relationship of forces between the blocks, favorable to Sánchez (172 compared to 170 for Feijóo, with the abstention of Junts and Coalición Canaria).

But you don't rule out that Puigdemont will blow us up if we don't give him what he asks for. Can you imagine that he ended up voting for Feijóo in exchange for nothing, just for destabilizing the State and distancing himself from ERC, while waiting for the flame of October 1 to be reactivated against a Jacobin and centralizing government in Madrid?

Trocadero Casa de Botes: the new luxury restaurant that enchants in Malaga

Félix Gancedo (vintage of 1940) goes down, very slowly, the stairs. Observe, with emotion, his second home, which is still a house: Casa de Botes. Gancedo, one of the best European sailors in history, was an Olympian in Mexico and Munich and president of the Real Club Mediterráneo, the oldest in Spain (1873).. The sailing champion is accompanied by one of his brothers, his wife and children and looks at the horizon of the splendid Bay of Malaga.

It is the inauguration of the Trocadero Casa de Botes de Málaga, the first incursion of the group led by Dionisio Hernández-Gil in the Andalusian city, and which is located at the end of Pier One. After an investment of six million euros after a public tender called by the Port Authority — with two and a half years of work —, and a staff that rises to 110 people at the opening, the new restaurant includes a new luxury offer and until now unprecedented in Malaga.

The place has three floors with different environments. The Mediterranean kitchen is located on the ground floor. Floor one is the space for Asian flavors and the top floor for drinks. It has capacity for 400 seated diners for lunch and dinner. “We wanted to be here. It was the only important site we were missing on the Costa del Sol,” Hernández-Gil told El Confidencial.. “Málaga is already a very emblematic place and today it is at the forefront of everything. Also, it's not seasonal at all”.

The group already has four locations in Marbella: Trocadero Playa, Trocadero Arena, Trocadero Petit Playa, Trocadero Zanzibar, Sotogrande, Estepona, Benalmádena and the one that has just opened in Tarifa join the list of other restaurants. For the month of September they will open a space in the old Mayte Commodore, in the Plaza de la República Argentina in Madrid. Today, it is the most important restaurant group on the Costa del Sol, employing more than 800 people.

The area where the Trocadero Casa de Botes is located is becoming a gastronomic pole after the inauguration, this summer, of La Pérgola de Mediterráneo. It is the restaurant of the Real Club Mediterráneo located opposite the Trocadero and run by Tercer Acto, a company owned by the actor and businessman from Malaga Antonio Banderas.

Hernández-Gil highlighted the “affection” and “respect” in the remodeling of the building, which dates from 1946, and which has been carried out by the architecture studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil of Madrid. “We have tried to respect the space”, added the owner of Trocadero. The property has a marked marine character and colonial style, “where the sobriety of the wood, the elegance of the design, the color of the fabrics and the warmth of the lighting”, as reported by the group. The main entrance contains a tribute to Gancedo with some of his trophies and various marine motifs that recall the origin of the Club.

Javier Frutos, president of Mahos (Association of Hoteliers of Málaga), recalled that Trocadero is already a “very recognized” brand throughout the province. “In our sector we are looking for quality and with this restaurant we go up a step in the gastronomic Malaga. The location is enviable. You can't be in a better place,” added Frutos, while watching Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas docked at the cruise terminal.

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Jacobo Florido, Councilor for Tourism of the Malaga City Council, appreciated the importance of this investment and admitted that the city does not have enough physical 'premium' restaurant spaces. “This restaurant has a great category. Malaga is already reaching a medium-high level of tourist offer”, Florido remarked to this newspaper.

This area of the city, perhaps the most beautiful, bathed by the Mediterranean, also premiered this Tuesday, in addition to a gastronomic offer, a recognition of the La Malagueta lighthouse. It is female and is called La Farola: the Ministry of Culture has declared it an Asset of Cultural Interest. As evening fell, the loudspeakers of the Trocadero Boathouse played Sting singing Englishman in New York.

Pere Aragonès invites JxCAT to negotiate together the investiture of Pedro Sánchez

Pere Aragonès had spent a few days with a low profile in terms of communication after the elections of 23-J. But in today's control session Aragonès has invited JxCAT to work together to negotiate the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “Your seven deputies are as valuable as ours,” reflected the Catalan president after a question from the JxCAT spokesman, Albert Batet, who had previously asked him for unity and to abandon the policy of false dialogues.

“There are 14 Catalan deputies that we can work along this line”, highlighted Pere Aragonès during the control session. “We have 14 deputies who are decisive. What you have is just as decisive as ours.. And they will only be decisive if the 14 act jointly”, replied Aragonès, who added that he hoped that the seed of a future joint strategy would emerge from this plenary session.

Pere Aragonès has avoided reproaching both JxCAT and the CUP. In the opinion of Aragones “the message of the electoral results is that we have to understand each other to take advantage of the opportunity. Political conflicts are resolved from politics. If we start a dynamic that sounds reproachful, everything will be much more difficult. I won't mention anything that could be a problem for this lens. Catalonia has an opportunity. We have to take advantage and work together”. Batet had reproached Aragonès for the ERC pacts with the PSC to enter the Barcelona Provincial Council.

The Catalan president reflected that “weeks of work, negotiations and also courage are ahead. And the one who has to show political courage is the person who has the possibility of being president of the Spanish Government. It is time for Pedro Sánchez to make proposals ”. This same request for courage, but in a more vague way, was also conveyed by Aragonès to Salvador Illa, the leader of the PSC.

Pere Aragonès affirmed in the Catalan Chamber that “the Government of Catalonia will continue to work in favor of independence and on the path to independence”, but without further details.

In the opinion of Albert Batet, the results of the general elections represent an opportunity that we will not shy away from, an opportunity to unblock the political conflict in Catalonia. We will be faithful to our commitments. We will not make an agreement in secret, like you in the Diputación de Barcelona. We are presenting ourselves to obtain the freedom of Catalonia, not to save the Spanish State”, warned Batet.

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On the other hand, Pere Aragonès accepted that the results of the independence movement and the ERC were bad in the last elections of 23-J but he also highlighted that one of the possible readings is that “I feel very proud of a country that has blocked the way to the right and the extreme right. And it has stopped it with a clear result in Catalonia”, Aragonès answered

On the loss of 700,000 votes by the independence movement, “by the independence movement, the results are bad, they are not what we would like and we will work to improve. But the confidence received will be to fight against the ultra-right and also to move towards self-determination”, Aragonès has valued.

“I think that from now on what we should do is add the two messages that there have been: we must work to stop the right and the ultra-right and also to stop the underlying conflict between Catalonia and the State. Catalonia is the one that has stopped the extreme right and that is the central question ”.

Little mirror, little magic mirror: did the polls or the principles fail?

If that evil queen had thought to pay for a survey to find out who was the most beautiful in the kingdom, if Snow White or her, surely they would have given her the brink of absolute majority. In addition to being magical, that little mirror had to be very, very brave to dare to tell its owner, the most powerful woman in the place, something different from what she expected to hear, after years of giving her ears. Normal that the Grimm brothers saw a mirror that speaks more credibly to contradict the queen than a poor consultant whose head, or contract, depended on keeping the person who asks happy.

Something similar has happened with the 23-J polls, but without magic, expertise or courage. Most have been wrong, yes, but they have done it more to the side of what the person who paid for them wanted to hear. Many things have gone wrong in the polls, in addition to the technical complexities of detecting the undecided vote and last-minute changes of opinion, beyond the ideological bias. Also the tendency to the so-called demoscopic consensus, that is, not to stray too far from what the person next to you says so as not to mess up alone, which is more noticeable. And since the idea of the overwhelming victory of the PP had been installed since the electoral advance after the municipal elections, the expectations fed back to the most complacent little mirrors.

When the Lehman Brothers crisis occurred, this debate with the rating agencies was intensely experienced. They proved incapable of analyzing the real risks of the system, partly due to a lack of transparency and excessive conflicts of interest, which called into question their independence.. That crisis of 15 years ago served to redefine the function of these risk rating agencies, their limits, their financing and their incompatibilities. Also to remember that the great crises come from latent risks that escape the radar, which after the fact seem obvious to everyone.

The hyperinflation of polls in the last electoral campaign, which have been shown to be unsuccessful, now raises a review of the demographic system. The experts in polls, the parties and the media have pending a reflection on how electoral polls should be carried out to recover the lost credibility. But not only is a review of its independence and transparency urgent, but also of its role. It is not only necessary to review how the surveys are carried out, but also what they are for, beyond blaming them for the frustration of expectations.

Was a state party like the PP really deciding on the fly the relevance of agreeing or not with a party like Vox based on the polls? And the principles? What happened to the beginnings? And the leadership? Perhaps the problem was not the polls then, but conveying the feeling that the party was letting itself be carried away too opportunistically by them, putting opportunism before values.

Vox is not just another party, especially in a country where 70% of society is in favor of abortion and euthanasia, 80% defend equal marriage and 80% are very concerned about climate change.. How was it not going to generate a majority objection in society to associate in regional pacts in the middle of the campaign with those who deny all this?. The failed surveys did not allow the PP to gauge the danger of approaching Vox. Both to scare away moderate voters and to mobilize the disillusioned left. True, but is that the polls' fault? Or who is guided by them instead of by clear leadership?

That's what the principles are for, to not trust the ups and downs of the polls and avoid groping in moments of confusion. Spain is a moderate country politically and advanced socially, the polls also say that. There are principles that should be beyond any doubt to associate in regional pacts in full campaign for any party that aspires to an absolute majority. Mirror, magic mirror, who is the most moderate in the kingdom?

A failure in the count of 23-J attributes 287 votes to the Falange in a town in Andalusia

A failure in the transmission of the votes of 23-J has caused an unprecedented situation. Falange Española has 8.7% of the support in the Seville town of Casariche (5,332 inhabitants, according to the INE). Apparently, it has happened like this. All the results platforms, including that of the Ministry of the Interior, show FE de las JONS as the fourth force with 287 votes in the municipality, even ahead of Vox. Three days after the recount, this communist stronghold in the Sierra Sur, one of those small towns where the PP has never obtained a single councilor, officially concentrates almost half of the ballots for the fascist party in Andalusia.

Since Sunday, the telephone of the mayor of the town has not stopped ringing and he does not stop explaining what seems inexplicable: why in his town, a historical bastion of the left in Andalusia, the Falange has broken into the table.

“Concerned people are calling me to find out what could have happened. Imagine, in a town like Casariche…”, explains José Ramón Parrado, the councilor of Izquierda Unida, who hopes that with the publication in the press the population will understand “the error”.. “It was a failure of the PDA of a specific table. Almost 300 votes for Sumar were notified as if it were from the Falange, which was the option that was below,” he points out..

After 12 at night, after becoming aware of the ruling, the notice was given to the Electoral Board. The members of the table and the official, already at home, had to return to the polling station to sign and be able to claim a rectification. “The Board will take a few days to rectify until it counts all the towns and in the meantime it will continue to appear in an erroneous way,” explains the councilor.

Sumar's victory remains indisputable, despite the error: 34% of the support, which will go to 42% when the rectification occurs. But for a few days it will be inevitable that many will continue to wonder what has happened in a region where the left achieves good results, with other nearby strongholds such as La Roda or Pedrera, and even the well-known Marinaleda, bastion of communism in Andalusia.. On social networks, some users have published the strange statistics.

From the Casariche City Council and the party, they have released the results on social networks without counting the Spanish Falange, which after the rectification will barely add two votes, but the surprise of FE de las JONS continues to appear on the rest of the platforms to Vox.

“Some ask us to delete it, but until it is officially published, we cannot do anything,” explains the mayor, who prefers to take it with humor. “Tomorrow I have to go to the Provincial Council and my auditor has told me to wear blue and with shoulder pads…”, jokes Parrado, who governs with 10 of the 13 councilors of the municipality. The other three are from the PSOE.

Parents stand up and help stop a man who broke into a playground with a gun

A group of fathers and mothers confronted, put to flight and helped arrest an individual who, armed with a knife, a turban and shouting “Allah! To the! Allah!”, burst into a playground in the capital Malaga where children played. The National Police is investigating the intentions of this individual after an intervention in which agents of the Local Police and civil guards of the security device of the City of Justice participated.

Police sources confirmed to El Confidencial that the event occurred around 7:50 p.m. this Monday in a children's park located on Hamlet street, in the Teatinos district.. There were some fathers and mothers who were watching their children play when a man “dressed in gray clothes, a turban on his head and a knife in his hand” approached..

The individual began to shout “Allah! To the! Allah!”, Said the sources consulted, who specified that the parents quickly withdrew and protected the little ones for fear of being attacked. They picked up stones and sticks from the ground and confronted the 53-year-old man until they managed to disarm him..

After throwing away the knife, the man fled the place, but was pursued by the parents until they managed to corner him in the City of Justice, which is located nearby.. The aforementioned sources specified that some Civil Guard agents who are part of the building's security device detained the man until a Local Police patrol that had been alerted to what had happened made an appearance..

The agents searched the individual and among his belongings they found a chisel 20 centimeters long.. Once detained, he was taken to the premises of the provincial police station, where agents of the National Police continue with the investigations to try to decipher the intentions of this person..

The aforementioned sources indicated that they were waiting to find out his mental state, and if he presented some type of pathology, since at the time he perpetrated the events he seemed disturbed.

Apparently, it was not the first time that the parents saw him hanging around the playground. He had caught the attention of more than one, not only because he came alone and without any children, but also because of his behavior. “Thanks to the fact that the people who were present acted with determination and managed to disarm him, because we don't know what he would have done,” said one of the sources consulted.