Around 6 p.m. on Friday, July 31, the fire that broke out last Saturday in Vall d’Uixó (Castellón) was declared stabilized. The provincial fire consortium reports that there is still “a lot of work ahead, but it is time to acknowledge the entire operation that has made it possible to stabilize the fire.” Officially, the fire has devastated 9,568 hectares until its boundaries could be established and its advance prevented.
The fires in central Spain in the provinces of Madrid and Ávila affected more than 100,000 people and had a direct impact on the residential stock in those areas, whose recovery could cost around 157.1 million euros.
The instructions given to school principals regarding the exclusion of students in the PISA 2025 test were not clear enough, which sparked the first flame of a fire that has burned the statistical validity of Catalonia’s results in the report that the OECD will present on September 8.
The Plaza 5 of the section on violence against women of the Barcelona court of first instance, on duty, received this Friday the man arrested for the death of his partner in the Sant Martí neighborhood of Barcelona. The magistrate has ordered provisional detention with communication and without bail. In addition, precautionary measures have also been agreed upon prohibiting communication and approach regarding the couple’s children, as well as the victim’s parents. The case is open for the crime of homicide.
It has been three weeks since the ground gave way at the back of the Verona pizzeria, on Teodora Lamadrid street in the upper area of Barcelona. Half of the affected neighbors, those who live closest to the sinkhole, still have not been able to return home, and this Friday, on the eve of August, they learned the news that some of them will not be able to do so at least until September due to the appearance of new “structural” cracks linked to the passage of the L9 metro tunnel boring machine heading towards Lesseps. Meanwhile, dump trucks of cement bags pile up around the Sant Gervasi market to continue covering the enormous hole of the restaurant, beneath which runs one of the streams descending from Collserola.
The image of tens of thousands of people suddenly entering through the gates of Europe in Ceuta is very useful for the narrative of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, whose Administration has long been warning of an “invasion” of undocumented immigrants as a consequence of the weakness of the European Union.
The Kingdom of Morocco has two great allies – the United States and Israel –, two great enemies – Algeria and the Polisario Front – and a tradition: testing Spain at very well-chosen moments in order to verify our limits and simultaneously display its power. To the tableau must be added the day chosen by Rabat for the show of force of sending, as if nothing, about 50,000 young people to a Spanish city of 83,000 inhabitants: the celebration of the ascension to the throne of Mohamed VI, whose public appearance on Thursday revealed his poor health, which fosters and anticipates underground struggles in the Majzén, the opaque elite that forms the court and takes its name from the royal residence in Rabat.
Giorgia Meloni had promised: “We will not stand idly by” in the face of the Ceuta migration crisis. One day later, the Italian Government has taken action.
Thousands of the more than 40,000 immigrants who entered Ceuta irregularly yesterday, due to Morocco’s permissiveness, have begun returning to their country throughout the morning of this Friday, after realizing that the autonomous city, completely overwhelmed, does not have the capacity to respond to them. The same point where they arrived by swimming or on foot, the El Tarajal border breakwater, has become an open entry gate, because the flow of entries does not stop despite the military deployment, and an exit, through which to leave Spain, once it has been confirmed that they have nowhere to eat or sleep.
“The State is here. We defend security and coexistence in Ceuta as we would defend it on the perimeter of the M-30 in Madrid. We are all one,” said the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, on Friday during the appearance he made from the Palace of the Assembly of Ceuta, alongside the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, after a meeting with the commanders of the State security forces at the Tarajal border, and also holding a meeting with the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas.
