Los Mossos d’Esquadra arrested two men on Wednesday accused of participating, along with two or three others, in the violent assault on a home in the Eixample where they held a young Egyptian content creator, passing through Barcelona. The rest of the gang fled through the inner courtyards, while several neighbors alerted 112 and recorded the scene.
Barcelona is not the ideal setting to watch Wednesday’s eclipse. Despite this, the public does not want to miss this historic event. These paragraphs are a guide on what one can do, and also what one should not do, to enjoy this phenomenon close to home.
The Balearic Health Service has detected a community outbreak of measles in Mallorca that already affects six people and originates from a minor tourist who arrived on the island and was treated on July 19 in the Pediatric Emergency Department of the Son Espases University Hospital. Health authorities are keeping contact tracing open due to the risk of new cases appearing after the movements and encounters that have occurred in recent weeks.
The Rodalies train service has once again suffered a new interruption this Monday after another cable theft, this time at the Bellvitge-Gornal station, in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona). As a result of this incident, Adif has reported through social networks that delays may occur on lines R2, R2 Nord, R2 Sud, and R15 of the Rodalies de Catalunya network.
Behind many of the service interruptions that Rodalies suffers daily are copper thieves who operate throughout the railway network with total impunity. They do so in points of the metropolitan area in broad daylight or in some remote and lonely place at dawn. There is no clear pattern beyond acting quickly, wiping out everything, and leaving as a consequence the corresponding impact on the service users.
The Valencian government has sent this afternoon an ES-Alert to the residents of Catí, located inland in Castellón with more than 700 inhabitants, asking them to evacuate the town via the CV-128 or N-232 roads towards Xert. Its residents had been confined since yesterday due to the smoke from the Tírig fire, and this afternoon the next instructions were to be decided at the 5 p.m. Cecopi meeting, and finally Emergencies issued the alert.
Three forest fires shake the interior of Castellón, in the comarca of l’Alt Maestrat, in the localities of Sierra de Engarcerán, Tírig, and Culla since last night, and the Generalitat Valenciana has declared situation 2 of the special forest fire plan of the Comunitat Valenciana. Likewise, the Emergency Coordination Center evacuated last night, “preventively,” some farmhouses and confined the municipality of Sierra de Engarcerán due to the smoke from the fire.
The apartment taken over by drug addicts in a building on Muntaner street has accumulated up to 49 interventions by the Mossos d’Esquadra so far this year. Most of these interventions are related to fights, arguments, and possession of narcotics.
At least during these last few days, these neighbors have not been finding any drugged person lying sprawled in the doorway of their building. The pressure from the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Guardia Urbana is intimidating the drug addicts who months ago took over a residence in a building on Muntaner Street at the height of Mallorca Street. At least during these last few days, they stopped scaring, insulting, and threatening those who were in the common areas.
La Costa Brava concentrates a large part of the nautical activity of the summer in Catalonia. Between Palamós, Palafrugell, and Begur, about 3,000 boats anchor, according to recent studies. A coastal strip that sustains strong nautical and tourist pressure, with crowded beaches in summer and a multitude of boats that in high season want to anchor in postcard coves. For some time now, some town councils have reduced some anchoring areas, which in the past had become natural shelters for recreational boats on days of garbí, gregal, or tramontana winds. They do so – they explain – basically for reasons of safety for bathers and other users of the aquatic environment and to protect the posidonia beds.
