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There is no two without three. And, on this occasion, there is no three without thirty. On Tuesday night, some French tourists staying at the El Pins campsite in Malgrat de Mar called 112 to explain that they had found on the beach, returned from the sea, a bundle with several packages inside, which could contain drugs. And so it was. Specifically, thirty one-kilogram packages of cocaine with the same identity seal as the last ones found adrift on the Catalan coast: a small card with the image of Jesus Christ, the Bible, and a phrase in memory of a missing friend.

A new forest fire has been declared this Wednesday in Aldea del Fresno (3,400 inhabitants) and has forced the confinement of this locality and the nearby municipality of Villamantilla (1,700). In the mid-afternoon, the Government ordered the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to join the extinction efforts in which about twenty ground crews and five aerial means from the Community of Madrid are already working, according to Emergencias 112 in a message sent to the media.

It was the beach lifeguards who discovered it. Last Monday the 10th, at the Pescadors beach in Badalona, the rescuers spotted a suspicious package floating a few miles off the coast. It was almost five in the afternoon and both the beach and the water were packed with bathers easing the heat of this infernal August. Later it was confirmed that the doubts of the sea workers were well-founded. It was a one-kilogram package of cocaine adrift that was recovered by the Mossos d’Esquadra.

The National Geographic Institute (IGN) has recorded six earthquakes of different intensities since midnight this Wednesday in Granada and its metropolitan area, five of them felt by the residents and added to the magnitude 3.4 earthquake that closed Tuesday.

The seismic series, with about fifty earthquakes recorded this Tuesday in Granada, has caused minor damage to the monumental complex of the Alhambra, none structural.

In Isla Cristina, these days people should be talking about the traditional festival of the Virgen del Mar, but that is not the case. Since Sunday, when the triple murder occurred, many conversations revolve around the few details that have emerged about the shooting, an investigation that remains under judicial secrecy but whose main hypothesis is that it is a settling of scores between two families involved in drug trafficking. The conflict between the two clans dates back to 2024, when a man was shot dead in the Torrejón neighborhood, in Huelva city, and two other people were injured. The alleged perpetrator, nicknamed Baba, was later arrested in Gijón.

A new strong earthquake has shaken Granada and its metropolitan area again this Tuesday and has been widely felt by the population. Also in points of other provinces such as Almería.

The illegal tourist apartment scheme specialized in high-end properties and with a special fondness for Passeig de Gràcia lost in recent weeks two of the most prized jewels of its crown, two of the properties they sublet by the day clandestinely: one with excellent views of the Sagrada Família located on Avinguda Diagonal at the height of Passeig de Sant Joan and another on Ronda Sant Pere, very close to Passeig de Gràcia.

Cruises continue to rise in Barcelona and 2026 is already progressing above the record levels reached last year, in a year also marked by an international situation that has strengthened the weight of the Mediterranean – and of the Catalan capital – within the programming of the major shipping companies. This is evidenced by the finalized figures for the month of July: between January and July, the Port of Barcelona recorded 3.23 million passenger movements, 5.3% more than in the same period of 2025. Of these, 2.3 million corresponded to cruise passengers, 7.3% more, while 929,540 were ferry users.

A few inspectors and police officers from the Barcelona City Council proceed to seal one of the most prized illegal tourist accommodations of the gang known as the clandestine toilets. It is one of the crown jewels of this organization, a traditionally high-ceilinged home recently renovated and over one hundred square meters located on València street, at the height of Aribau street, in the heart of the Eixample district. All this happened a few days ago.