The Madrid Municipal Police have arrested playwright and theater director Ramón Fernández Paso as the alleged perpetrator of a sexual assault on a minor at the intersection of Alcalá Street and Paseo del Prado in Madrid, according to police sources.
Fifteen years have passed since the most important social outbreak in democratic Spain. The 15-M emerged on a Sunday in May at Puerta del Sol in Madrid as a demonstration called via the internet, with a success that surprised even the organizers. And those outraged by economic precariousness and the political system did not go home after the protest. They set up a camp that spread to Barcelona, in Plaça Catalunya, and then throughout the country. There was a willingness to participate in politics. Thousands and thousands of hours of assemblies to outline possible roadmaps turned the squares into laboratories of direct democracy. What remains today of that movement? Could it happen again?
The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, assured today that none of the passengers of the MV Hondius ship, where a hantavirus outbreak has broken out, have expressed opposition to undergoing quarantine when they are evacuated to the Gómez Ulla Military Hospital in Madrid from the port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife, where the technical team from the Ministry of Health will also be deployed tomorrow.
The approach of summer boosts the labor market. If in the Spanish economy May is always a good month for employment, this year’s has been even better than usual. An increase of 232,000 affiliates, which is the second-best May in the historical series and leads to a new record in the total number of contributors, who have already exceeded 22.3 million. And a significant fact: practically half of the increase in contributors in May comes from foreign workers, with 111,000 new affiliates. Among Spaniards, the employment growth rate is clearly lower.
Air transport faces a situation of maximum uncertainty at the gates of summer due to the war in the Middle East. No matter how much airlines and the tourism sector in general strive to show a public image of calm, the reality behind closed doors is one of great concern about the real risk of aviation fuel shortages in the coming weeks. The airport association, ICE, warns of supply problems in just two weeks, and the International Energy Agency (IAE) estimates that in little more than a month there will be a lack of kerosene in Europe.
The two people murdered last night in a house in Oviedo are the sister and brother-in-law of the detainee, according to the Government delegate in Asturias, Adriana Lastra, who confirmed this on Tuesday.
The chief of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Naharro, stated this Tuesday that the investigators are working with the hypothesis that the gunman who on Sunday afternoon emptied the magazine of his automatic pistol in Badalona, had the objective to “intimidate” a rival family in the drug market. And that “it was an accident” that one of the bullets ricocheted and injured a 10-year-old girl who was near Còrdoba street, in the Sant Roc neighborhood.
They have won five Ballon d’Or awards between them. They are the best in the world. Two icons of FC Barcelona. They are Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmatí. The first scored a brace in a match filled with tears and hints of farewell. The second returned after a long injury. A fibula fracture that kept her away from her habitat: the pitch, for 154 days. Both midfielders will be in the Oslo final defending the blaugrana jersey in their seventh European final, the sixth in a row. It may be their last together because everything that happened around Alexia had a farewell flavor. There was everything. Goals, bows, tears, and the umpteenth photo of the captain with the trophy and the cheering stands.
The PP has lost the absolute majority and will need Vox to govern in Andalusia. The story already experienced previously in Extremadura, Aragon, and Castilla y León is repeating itself. The Populars are chained to Santiago Abascal’s party for better or worse. On a scale…
For the first time in Spanish democracy, a judge is investigating a former prime minister and is doing so for, among other alleged crimes, influence peddling. The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has gathered evidence to proceed against José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for having woven a network to use his influence in the current Government of Pedro Sánchez, as well as in other instances, such as the Venezuelan executive, in favor of companies in exchange for money.