The simultaneity of fires in the vicinity of Madrid complicates extinction efforts, with four active fires close to each other and the added difficulty of being very close to each other and in three different autonomous communities.
The mother investigated along with her partner for alleged serious injuries and sexual assault with penetration to her six-week-old baby in Barcelona has assured the judge today that she never saw any signs of ill-treatment from her partner towards the little one and has reaffirmed her innocence: “If I had seen it, I would have reported it,” according to judicial sources.
The European Central Bank (ECB) presented on Wednesday the ten finalist designs for the next generation of euro banknotes and has opened a public consultation so that citizens of the eurozone can express their preferences before the final decision.
After twelve consecutive nights of US bombings on Iranian territory, which have blown up the ceasefire agreement signed last month by Presidents Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian, the US House of Representatives rejected the return of hostilities this Thursday. In a resolution approved with 214 votes in favor and 208 against, this is the second time the lower house reaffirms Congress’s authority over war.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, assured this Thursday that the regional government will support the residents affected by the forest fire originated in Almorox (Toledo), once the evaluation of the damages caused by the fire to homes and plots is concluded.
The strike by forest firefighters in the Community of Madrid is causing the units of the 22 fire stations to have fewer personnel. Before, there was a unit with a truck and two or three forest firefighters in 19 stations. Now, none.
The National Police have solved the homicide of a 38-year-old man committed on New Year’s Day in the Madrid district of Usera with the arrest in Toledo and Navarra of four men, who apparently were known to the victim. The assaulted man died after receiving five stab wounds.
The spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group in the Valencian Parliament, José María Llanos, emphasized this Thursday his party’s satisfaction with the first budgets that include national priority. The leader even clarified the statements made yesterday, at the end of the plenary session, by the Valencian president, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, who spoke of ‘roots’ instead of the concept defended by Vox. The head of the Consell pointed out that what the accounts do is “give that priority to those people who have been registered in a municipality for longer,” while adding: “They do not distinguish between skin color, they do not distinguish between immigrants and people born here. Of course not, I would never tolerate it.”
A couple consisting of a 28-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman has been arrested by the local police of Alicante for abandoning a girl just over two and a half years old. According to investigation sources, the intervention occurred last Tuesday at noon in a central car park in the capital after two passers-by observed the minor alone next to a car in manifestly unsanitary hygienic conditions.
La Sección Segunda de la Audiencia Provincial de Castellón ha impuesto una pena de prisión de 11 años por un delito continuado de agresión sexual a un hombre que sometió a su hija a diferentes prácticas sexuales cuando ésta era menor de edad.