One of the squatters who terrorized the neighbors of a building on Muntaner Street has been arrested

One of the squatters who terrorized the neighbors of a building on Muntaner Street has been arrested

The Mossos d’Esquadra arrested one of the squatters of an apartment on Muntaner Street on Thursday afternoon who was making life difficult for the building’s neighbors. For months, the coming and going of people with many drug problems had shattered coexistence in this stairwell, as La Vanguardia has been reporting over the past few weeks.

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The battle of the big brands for the wealthiest tourist drives up the m2 of Passeig de Gràcia

The battle of the big brands for the wealthiest tourist drives up the m2 of Passeig de Gràcia

The overtaking was consolidated: the rental prices of commercial premises on Passeig de Gràcia have definitively surpassed those of Portal de l’Àngel, a street that for many years had the most expensive leases in all of Spain. The competition for the very scarce commercial premises of major national and international brands specializing in high-end products and mainly targeting the wealthiest tourists is driving up the price per square meter of the city’s most prestigious avenue. Portal de l’Àngel plays a different role and attracts a more local and mass audience.

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Thirty more packages of cocaine with a stamp appear on Malgrat beach

Thirty more packages of cocaine with a stamp appear on Malgrat beach

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.

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A new fire in Madrid forces 5,000 residents in Aldea del Fresno and Villamantilla to be confined

A new fire in Madrid forces 5,000 residents in Aldea del Fresno and Villamantilla to be confined

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.

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Bales of cocaine adrift arrive on Catalan beaches

Bales of cocaine adrift arrive on Catalan beaches

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.

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