All the blame? of the machinist. A human error and no responsibility of Adif, the railway administrator, for not applying the most demanding security measures and disconnecting the automatic braking system in a section with a tricky curve; a danger that other train conductors had already insistently warned about. With this (unexpected) argument, the Prosecutor's Office was taken down this week in the final stretch of the macro-trial for the Angrois accident, to the surprise and indignation of the different platforms in which victims, relatives and those affected who exercise the popular accusation and fought tooth and nail and teeth, -and many rallies before Congress or knocking on the doors of the European Union- to sit Andrés Cortabitarte, former security director of Adif, in the dock.

The surprise came on Wednesday the 20th, on the first day of the conclusions of the macro-criminal trial for the Alvia accident -started in October 2022- after seven years of investigation and long hearings with the shocking testimonies of the survivors and the relatives of the 80 victims who were traveling on the Alvia 04155 train from Madrid to Ferrol on July 24, 2013. They did not arrive at the Santiago station, which was barely 3,000 meters away. The convoy crashed in the A Grandeira (Angrois) curve at 191 kilometers per hour, double what could and should be done in a complicated section, without beacons, with little physical signaling or additional automatic braking mechanisms under the expertise of one person: Francisco José Garzón Amo, the driver.

The prosecutor, Mario Piñeiro, opened the conclusions phase endorsing the arguments of the State Attorney's Office -which defends Adif- and withdrew the request for 4 years in prison for Cortabitarte -identical to the one that he does maintain against the driver- for the “legal gibberish” of the security protocols, as he proclaimed in the room to the surprise of a hundred lawyers representing the parties. At the time, he attacked the other defendant for answering an “irrelevant” call. For the Prosecutor's Office, Cortabitarte has no criminal responsibility despite having signed a report certifying the “one hundred percent” security of a line whose risks had not been studied or authorizing the disconnection of the ERTMS system -automatic braking- since it acted as a ” bureaucrat”.

With this change in the criteria of the Public Ministry, the railway administrator -which depends on the Ministry of Transport- would not have any criminal responsibility in the greatest railway tragedy in Spain in democracy, after that other derailment in 1944 in Torre del Bierzo, whose number of victims never knew for sure. It does not agree with the testimony of the head of security of the European Railway Agency, Christopher Carr, who in December stated that Adif and Renfe should have taken measures since “European regulations required an assessment of the risk” of the curve. It was not done.

loneliness of the driver

The prosecutor in the Alvia case unleashed all the artillery against the driver: Francisco José Garzón Amo, a veteran driver who made a fatal mistake; answered an “irrelevant” call from the controller to the corporate phone that interrupted him for 100 seconds -just over a minute and a half- to find out what the Pontedeume platform (A Coruña) was like, where a family with two children had to get off. The mother, Lydia M.. and the little daughter passed away. Father Rafael R, returned to a half-empty house with his eldest son and his life broken.

The call came at the worst moment and distracted the engineer from the layout until he had the curve on top of him. He braked, no longer having time to avoid the derailment. Garzón, photographed bloodied and disoriented after the accident, has represented how no one else could be lonely to blame for an accident that claimed 80 lives and cut many others short in sequelae, absences and injuries. The accusations for 80 crimes of homicide and 145 for injuries due to serious professional negligence weigh on him.

Garzón is supported by his own, the machinists union (Semaf), who accompanied him to the gates of the Cidade da Cultura del Monte Gaiás, where the trial was held. For them, their partner is “one more victim” due to human error with a fatal outcome.

Outrage of the victims

Surprise, outrage and disappointment, even. This is how the lawyers of the victims' platforms ultimately pronounced after the change of criteria of the Prosecutor. “Dog does not eat dog”, Manuel Alonso, a lawyer from the Alvia 04155 Victims Platform, graphically proclaimed, referring to the fact that Adif's responsibility would also be that of the Government in which the Public Ministry is framed.

Both the Alvia 04155 Victims Platform and the Association of those affected (Apafas) maintain the request for four years in prison for Andrés Cortabitarte (Adif) and another four for Garzón Amo (engine driver), who insistently asked for “sorry, sorry, sorry” in all your statements. They demand a fair sentence and understand that a single man cannot bear all the responsibility for a catastrophe just for answering “one phone call”.. Ironically, the platform stated in a statement, they attribute the change in position of prosecutor Piñeiro to another “corporate call”, that of his boss: the State Attorney General.

The case, which accumulates more than 50,000 double-sided pages, will be heard for sentencing on July 27: a decade after the tragedy in which victims and relatives have still not been able to reach the final stage.. Those affected, who feel abandoned by the Fiscalía, now look to the head judge of Santiago's Penal 2 room, Elena Fernández Currás, who will dictate his fall in autumn.

The Trans Huellas association has denounced through its Twitter account the “act of transphobia” that occurred in a supermarket in Malaga. According to the testimony of its president Cristina, the manager of Lidl, located in Armengual de la Mota, called her sir several times.

“The manager of Lidl has repeatedly used the word “gentleman”, even though it is obvious from her clothes and a bracelet with the rainbow flag that she was talking to a trans person,” they explain from the association, which has submitted a complaint sheet.. “No aggression without response”, they added.

The manager of @lidlespana has repeatedly used the word “gentleman”, even though it was obvious from her clothes and a bracelet with the rainbow flag that she was talking to a trans person.

We have already filled out the claim form.

No unanswered aggression.

— Trans Footprints (@Asotranshuellas) June 21, 2023

Controversy in networks

The events that occurred on June 21 have generated controversy on social networks and Trans Huellas has responded to the comments on Twitter: “Not even 15 minutes since the news was published and there are already transphobic scum insulting”.

After the commotion created, some network users announced that they were going to meet at the door of Lidl in Malaga in support of the worker. And the association responded emphatically to one of them through its Twitter account: “Well, I went with a couple of friends to talk and you ran away, “brave”. Don't you like being recorded hate speech? 4 people and one of them, I suspect that you, due to age, have tried to disassociate themselves from the act. Wow “hit”. We show our faces, not like others”.

Well, I went with a couple of friends to talk and you ran away, “brave”. Don't you like being recorded hate speech?
4 people and one of them, I suspect that you, because of your age, have tried to disassociate themselves from the act. Wow “hit”.
We show our faces, not like others.

— Trans Footprints (@Asotranshuellas) June 22, 2023

Trans Footprints assures that they will go to court to denounce many of the tweets and comments they are receiving these days. At the moment, the supermarket chain has not made an official statement about what happened to one of its employees.

The future president of the Cortes de Aragón, Marta Fernández (Vox), has tried to leave social networks without leaving a trace. The one who will be the highest figure of the Aragonese Parliament used the account @marthynahappy, on Twitter, to launch controversial messages against vaccines, denialism against the pandemic, climate change and gender violence. Hours before his appointment, his fingerprint was vanishing.

Regarding the pandemic, according to the Heraldo de Aragón, the Vox deputy came to assure that the covid “is not a natural virus” nor “a virus of bats”. “China created it intentionally and premeditated”.

Although the Twitter of the future president of the Cortes has disappeared, there are loopholes in this social network of some of the things that she published. In an interview, he stated that Irene Montero is afraid of “whistles” and that she only knows how to “kneel to grow.”. Thus, the tweeters have taken it upon themselves to remove from the trunk of memories some of Fernández's most controversial messages.

“Irene Montero only knows how to kneel to grow”

This lady from Vox will be the president of the Parliament of Aragon thanks to the votes of the PP.

With Feijóo there is no moderation, only submission. How sad. pic.twitter.com/jRIvsokGKQ

— Alan Barroso (@AlanBarrosoA) June 23, 2023

Born in Zaragoza (1966), Marta Fernández Martín has a degree in Law and is a court solicitor.. He worked for two decades in the Human Resources department of “a private company”, according to information from Vox. In the courts that he will now preside over, his group has blocked all institutional declarations rejecting sexist violence.

Against feminism and the LGTBIQ+ collective

He has also left Instagram. In an image rescued by users, you can read how in November 2021 he lashed out at the media: “Good night, great Spaniards,” he wrote next to an image that said: “Wash your hands regularly, the government is in charge of brainwashing And the media”. In July 2021, he uploaded a post in which a surgical mask appears, along with the message “Models of face masks for citizens”, and a photo of a wad of bills with the phrase, “Models of face masks for journalists”..

The new president of the Parliament of Aragon is Marta Fernandez, from Vox. Yesterday he deleted his Twitter account but he forgot to delete the Instagram account where he has posted these kinds of messages.. pic.twitter.com/v1v4FXdaDv

— Sonia Palomino (@soniapalomino) June 23, 2023

The messages against feminism and the LGTBIQ+ collective have also starred in several of their publications on networks. The transphobic message reached the Trans Law: “Rapists will also be able to flow and self-perceive themselves as a woman and thus, calmly, they will be able to go to a women's prison,” he published. “You are wrong, feminist. You are the granddaughters of the Christians who drove the Moors out of the peninsula so that you could walk down the street with your boobs,” she wrote in another of her Instagram posts.

We say goodbye to the storms and instability and welcome a summer that comes with high temperatures. The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). has confirmed the first heat wave of summer. “During the next few days, an anticyclonic situation will prevail with a generally stable atmosphere, favoring strong insolation, which, together with the entry of a very warm air mass from North Africa, is giving rise to a progressive increase in temperatures in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands”, confirms the spokesman, Rubés del Campo.

From Sunday, June 25, and until Wednesday, June 28, measurements will be between 5 and 10 degrees above what is usual for this time of year in the center and south of the peninsula.. Without anticipating an event, this Friday, June 23, the environment will already be stable, although without ruling out an occasional storm in points of the northern and eastern third, as well as in Mallorca. 38 degrees will already be reached in Badajoz, Seville or Córdoba. The nights will also be very warm and will not drop below 20 degrees and even 25 in some coastal cities.

#AEMETBlog
On Saturday and Sunday it would reach 40 ºC in the Guadalquivir and Guadiana valleys. On Sunday, 35ºC will also be exceeded in the depressions of the northeast and the center of the peninsula. https://t.co/vMDn1l95WC pic.twitter.com/rbJzSOYp6O

– AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) June 23, 2023

On Saturday, the rise in temperature will already be widespread, both the maximum and the minimum. Oviedo or Coruña will exceed 32 degrees. The south of Galicia, the central areas of Castilla y León and the Ebro valley, as well as a good part of Extremadura, the south of the Community of Madrid, the west of Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia, will be above 35 degrees..

marked night heat

On Sunday, in cities like Madrid, Granada, Huelva, Lleida, Cáceres, Toledo or Zaragoza, the mercury will oscillate between 38 and 40 degrees, and again the Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys will be the true peninsular “ovens” with records that could exceed 42 degrees. Specifically, they will be on alert for high temperatures, Badajoz, Seville and Córdoba.

The causes of these high temperatures, according to Del Campo, must be sought in several factors that occur simultaneously. In addition to the air mass of African origin, we find a stable atmosphere with high pressures over our country.. To which is added the lack of rainfall.

On Monday, June 26, the heat will grant a truce and temperatures will drop to 6 degrees in parts of Burgos, the Basque Country or Navarra. This day, the night heat will be marked, since it will not drop below 23 degrees in cities like Almería, Cádiz, Málaga, Barcelona or Seville. On Tuesday and Wednesday, in principle, we will continue with heat and there will not be very notable variations. It will be Thursday when the thermal drop reaches the northern half of the peninsula.

The Civil Guard, in the so-called 'Eikel' operation, has arrested two men and investigated a third, as alleged perpetrators of two crimes against public health for drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal group.

These three people were in charge of receiving a shipment of cocaine from Colombia through a “mule” or “human mail”, who died in the Santo Domingo de la Calzada health center, in La Rioja, due to a break in the inside of his stomach of two of the 93 cocaine capsules he had ingested.

The investigation began on April 24, when the agents received notice of the death of a young man who had been abandoned at the Santo Domingo de la Calzada health center..

The toilets could not do anything to save the life of the young man.. Two of the capsules he had ingested burst inside his stomach, causing his death..

Once the corpse was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of La Rioja to perform the autopsy, it was found that the deceased was carrying a total of 93 high-purity cocaine capsules inside his stomach, which weighed 1,200. grams.

Investigators have identified the three people who took the victim to the health center, where they abandoned her without any documentation..

Likewise, it has been determined that the 21-year-old deceased had been recruited in his country of origin, Colombia, to work as a “mule” or “human courier”, a name by which people who ingest drug capsules to introduce them are known. illegally in the country.

Arrival at Adolfo Suárez Madrid airport

The two detainees and the investigated traveled on April 24 to the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport to pick up the victim, who was traveling from Colombia to Spain with a stomach full of cocaine capsules.. Once she landed, they put her in a vehicle to continue the trip to Vitoria, a town where they planned to extract the drug capsules for their adulteration and distribution..

During the journey they decided to stop in the Rioja town of Santurde to rest, the victim suddenly and unexpectedly began to feel bad, so after taking the documentation from her, they left her at the Santo Domingo de la Calzada health center..

Once the full identity of the deceased was achieved, the investigators were able to establish the itinerary followed until his arrival in Spain, as well as the vehicle in which he had traveled from Madrid to La Rioja.. After analyzing all the information, it was possible to determine that the destination of the narcotic substance was the Basque Country, specifically the town of Vitoria, where two of the people who abandoned the victim were hiding..

The Civil Guard made two entries and searches at the Vitoria homes of the two detainees as alleged perpetrators of the events. With the seized drug, once it was adulterated and before it went on the market, a total of 13,069 doses could have been produced, valued at 274,455 euros..

The operation has been carried out by the Anti-Drug Organized Crime Team -EDOA- of the Civil Guard in La Rioja and has had the participation of agents of the Rural Action Group (GAR).

The proceedings and the detainees were placed at the disposal of the Instruction Court No. 2 of Haro. The judicial authority has ordered the imprisonment of the two detainees. The third participant has been investigated for the same facts.

A 22-year-old man of British nationality died in Sant Antoni this Friday after falling from the third floor of a hotel located at number 9 Ramón y Cajal street, as reported by the Civil Guard.

The young man was in the hotel room with a friend and, at the moment, the causes of the fall are unknown..

For its part, SAMU 061 has explained that the notice was received around 11:00 a.m., and an Advanced Life Support ambulance and a Basic Life Support ambulance went to the place, which have carried out resuscitation maneuvers without success..

The Civil Guard is investigating the facts.

The Ombudsman has announced that it initiated an ex officio action in relation to the sinking of a small boat that, apparently, was heading to the Canary Islands last Wednesday, June 21.

In a statement, the body explained that the action will be carried out before the Canary Islands Regional Coordination Center of the Coordination Authority Against Irregular Immigration and before the Maritime Rescue and Safety Society (SASEMAR).

For its part, it will request information on the coordination measures adopted in this regard and the actions carried out during the rescue operation.

A man died this Friday morning when the zódiac in which he was together with two other people overturned on Jandía Beach, within the municipality of Pájara (Fuerteventura), as reported by the Emergency and Security Coordination Center ( cecoes) 112.

A call alerted that a boat had capsized and that its occupants were in the water, so a rescue helicopter from the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) and Maritime Rescue went to the scene..

The air resource located and rescued one of its three occupants in cardiorespiratory arrest and transferred him to the Morro Jable Pier; while the other two occupants managed to get out of the water by their own means.

On land, the personnel of the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) verified that the affected person was unemployed, for which they carried out advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers without success, having to confirm the death.

For its part, Maritime Rescue collaborated in the rescue tasks; Civil Guard took charge of the body until the arrival of the judicial authority and instructed the corresponding proceedings; while the Local Police collaborated with the emergency services.

This Saturday, June 24, work begins on the section between the Sol and Valdecarros stations on line 1 of the Madrid Metro. The Sol station will act as the start and end of the line until the works are finished, with a date to be determined at the end of October of this year..

A total of 18 stations will be affected, which are: Tirso de Molina, Antón Martín, Estación del Arte, Atocha Renfe, Menéndez Pelayo, Pacífico, Puente de Vallecas, Nueva Numancia, Portazgo, Buenos Aires, Alto del Arenal, Miguel Hernández, Sierra de Guadalupe, Villa de Vallecas, Congosto, La Gavia, Las Suertes and Valdecarros.

🚧🚇 REMEMBER: this coming Saturday, June 24, the works to modernize the track between the Sol and Valdecarros stations on L1 begin.
🚌 A substitute bus service will be launched.
ℹ Info: https://t.co/UCNss1Toe1#ObrasL1 #TrabajamosParaTi pic.twitter.com/neSFAu3al5

– Madrid Metro (@metro_madrid) June 21, 2023

As indicated on the Madrid Metro website, “with this renewal of the track, the operation of the line will be comprehensively improved”. Both the travelers and the transport company win. It will be possible to reduce the travel time of the trains, improve comfort in the march, increase the reliability of the facilities and speed up the maintenance work on the line.

All the information on the works of Line 1

The Sol station will be the beginning and the end of the line while the works last. The section from Pinar de Chamartín and Sol can be used without problems. Although a free bus line will be enabled that will cover the affected section, the SE1, from Metro de Madrid they also invite users to use other EMT lines, such as 24, 26, 32, 37, 54, 57 , 58, 141, 142 and 143. Other Renfe lines will also serve users to go to Chamartín.

• When do the works on line 1 begin?: Saturday, June 24, 2023.
• When will the works on line 1 finish?: October 2023.
• Which stations are affected?: Between the stations of Tirso de Molina and Valdecarros, both included.
• What free alternatives exist? A bus line will be set up to cover the section.

The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT) will be in charge of offering the alternative and free bus line. There will be no additional cost for the user, although the transport ticket will have to be validated when getting on the bus, without discounting trips. There will be a provision of 58 buses for weekdays and 33 for weekends and holidays, until the works are finished.

The SE1 line will cover the routes between the Atocha and Valdecarros stations, with stops in Atocha, Menéndez Pelayo, Pacífico, Puente de Vallecas, Nueva Numancia, Portazgo, Buenos Aires, Alto del Arenal, Miguel Hernández, Sierra de Guadalupe, Villa de Vallecas La Gavia, Las Suertes and Valdecarros. In addition, the service will begin at 6:00 a.m. and end at 2:00 a.m., with a frequency of 2 to 5 minutes, reduced from 1 to 4 minutes for the hours of greatest demand..

The National Police has arrested a 40-year-old woman in the province of Malaga for her alleged responsibility in a crime of child abduction that occurred approximately half a year ago in the Murcian town of Lorca. The investigated spent this Friday morning at the disposal of the Investigating Court Number 14 of Malaga, which was on duty, and which decreed her provisional release.

The arrest occurred after last June 5, the Investigating Court Number 5 of Lorca issued a search, arrest and appearance order on the investigated for alleged child abduction. The judicial authority also requested the location of the girl and her reinstatement with the father.

🔕 OFF
Located thanks to the joint work carried out between the Police @policia and the Professional Association of Private Detectives of Spain (APDPE), @APDPE, which has an agreement with SOSDesaparecidos.#disappeared #sosdisaparecidos #Lorca #Murcia pic.twitter.com/hamcuTLeBG

— MISSING ALERT (@sosdesaparecido) June 22, 2023

The facts were initially denounced by the parent of the minor, just over a year old, who on December 27 filed a complaint in the Lorca Guard Court against his ex-partner and mother of his daughter.. The complainant then reported that the woman had left with the little girl and that she did not know the whereabouts of both.

This Thursday, agents attached to the Family and Women's Care Unit (UFAM) of the Marbella Police Station, who had been requested to collaborate by their counterparts at the Lorca Police Station, located and arrested the suspect in Malaga when she was preparing to go to an appointment in a public body. She was accompanied by another woman and a baby, who turned out to be the minor whose whereabouts were unknown..

The Provincial Police Station has reported that the investigations carried out in recent weeks pointed to the temporary residence of the investigated and her daughter on the Costa del Sol.

The investigators finally arrested the suspect and proceeded to reinstate the minor, who is in good health, together with her father, as established by the competent judicial authority..