Does Judge Juan Carlos Peinado deserve to be sanctioned? That question has divided judges. The permanent commission of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) met yesterday morning to debate the five complaints against Peinado, the investigating judge in the case of Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
The Mossos d’Esquadra from the Martorell investigation unit have taken a statement, on two occasions, from a British woman resident in Barcelona, aged around fifty, who has been working as an English interpreter for decades and who occasionally collaborated with the therapist of the Andic family, Maria Julia Lüderwaldt. The woman first went to the Catalan police station in Martorell on June 29, accompanied by a lawyer, and for two hours she recounted what she had kept silent about for the last year and a half and which, literally, prevented her from sleeping peacefully.
Spain will suffer its third heatwave this week so far this summer. Three episodes of very high temperatures in just six weeks. Faced with this unusual streak, some meteorologists are starting to talk about a new concept: “heatwave trains”, a succession of extreme events with hardly any respite and which reflects a change in climate patterns in Europe and, especially, in Spain.
The expected confession of businessman Julio Martínez Martínez fell short. According to legal sources, it could be an advance, an announcement of his predisposition to collaborate, but it was not a complete statement that would allow finding out who former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero influenced, among other things, to achieve the rescue of the airline Plus Ultra, which was granted 53 million euros after the pandemic to prevent its eventual financial collapse.
Shake-up in the Ukrainian army. President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, this Tuesday and has appointed General Mykhailo Drapatyi, who until now was in charge of leading the Joint Forces, in his place.
The verdict in the Mascarillas case has set the path. A very harsh sentence against the corrupted –José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García– and exoneration for the corruptor –Víctor de Aldama–. The rules of the game are clear, and whoever wants to follow them has options to avoid jail….
The defense of former president Carles Puigdemont made a move this Tuesday and filed a complaint against Spain before the European Commission in response to the Court of Auditors’ refusal to apply the Amnesty Law from the outset, a gesture that, in their opinion, contravenes the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The French Parliament definitively approved on Tuesday the law prohibiting access to social networks for minors under 15, a measure that makes France the first country in Europe to establish a general restriction of this type and which the Government aims to apply from the start of the next school year.
Cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness caused by ingesting a microscopic parasite, has infected more than 10,000 people in 34 U.S. states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and two months after the origin of this “explosive diarrhea” outbreak was declared, it continues to grow and eludes the efforts of the country’s health authorities.
The battle to dominate the global market for obesity drugs has moved from laboratories to courts. Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. for alleged misleading advertising, claiming that its promotional campaigns present “false and materially misleading” comparisons between the treatments of both companies, to make it appear that its product yielded better results.