A man was shot dead this Saturday afternoon with a gunshot to the head while he was on Mineria street in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. The victim had a record for public health. A first citizen security police officer from the Mossos d’Esquadra, with the help of several passersby, tried to revive the man without success.
Barça once again demonstrated one more night that when they switch to steamroller mode, no one can stop them. Atlético de Madrid had no chance against Barça on the big occasions, they overwhelmed the rojiblanco team in the first half to take their twelfth Copa de la Reina. The third title of the season, after the Supercopa and the League, which they aim to turn into a poker next Saturday in Oslo. The blaugrana team will arrive fired up for the final against Lyonnes of Jonatan Giráldez.
The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, has criticized the statements of the director of the Eurovision Festival, Martin Green, about a possible return of Russia to the contest, and has warned that “they destroy the image of the competition and make Spain’s return more difficult.”
Seven people, two seriously, have been injured this Saturday when a car ran over several pedestrians in the center of Modena, a city in northern Italy, according to the police. Four of them are said to be in serious condition, local press reports.
Javier Bardem has expressed words of gratitude to the Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, who at the press conference of the jury members of the official section of the Cannes festival, defended that the Spanish actor, like Susan Sarandon and Mark Ruffalo, raised their voices publicly in support of Gaza and harshly criticized the American industry for the alleged professional reprisals against the three actors. “I sent him a message through a mutual friend thanking him and also Laverty has always been an artistic and personal reference,” the Oscar-winning actor confessed to a small group of journalists during an interview about his role in El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which is competing for the Palme d’Or and is officially presented this afternoon at the French festival.
The launch of a limited edition Swatch watch collection in collaboration with Audemars Piguet has caused crowds, police interventions, and the preventive closure of establishments in Barcelona, but also in the United Kingdom.
China and the United States agreed to reduce tariffs on some products to promote bilateral trade, according to a statement from the Ministry of Commerce of China, which describes the agreements as preliminary.
As is tradition, the Sitges festival has presented at the Fantastic Pavilion of the Marché du Film at the Cannes festival the poster for its upcoming edition, the 59th, which will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the release of Carrie, a film directed by Brian de Palma, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King and starring a young Sissy Spacek as a shy teenager who lives with her mother, a religious fanatic, and is constantly mocked by her high school peers. “The poster references Carrie, which will be the leitmotif of the festival, and the image, created again by the China agency, represents blood, adolescence, and also refers to prom nights, the party that ends so badly in the film,” said the festival director Ángel Sala to La Vanguardia, who recalled that the film was a huge success and influenced the portrayal of student rituals as transitional spaces to adulthood, where evil and supernatural elements infiltrate and alter the appearance of normality.
The search for the four missing Italian tourists in the Maldives has claimed a new victim. A diver from the National Defense Forces of the archipelago died this Saturday in the hospital after being admitted in critical condition during rescue operations in the underwater caves of Alimathà, in the Vaavu atoll.
For just 41 thousandths of a second, a breath, Àlex Márquez maintains dominance in his territory. The Cervera rider won the Sprint of the GP of Catalunya over Pedro Acosta in an intense duel that was decided on the last lap, after 12 laps of battle between the Catalan and the Murcian.