The Government refutes the ruling against the president's brother: “It is outrageous to convict an innocent person without evidence”

The Government refutes the ruling against the president’s brother: “It is outrageous to convict an innocent person without evidence”

“It is very serious,” warn officials at Moncloa in response to the ruling by the Provincial Court of Badajoz that this Tuesday sentenced David Sánchez, the brother of the Prime Minister, to nine years of disqualification for a crime of administrative misconduct. And a second “very dangerous precedent for our democracy,” in their view, following the Supreme Court ruling that also disqualified the former Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, from holding office. “It is outrageous to convict an innocent person without evidence,” they warn in the Executive.

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The law on vicarious violence: end of parental authority for parents convicted of abuse

The law on vicarious violence: end of parental authority for parents convicted of abuse

The Council of Ministers has given approval, in the second round, to the draft bill on vicarious violence, prepared by the Ministry of Equality, led by Ana Redondo, which has as its main objective to make this violence visible, recognize it, prevent it, sanction it, and eradicate it. So far this year, three children have been murdered, and since 2013 (when the official statistics began), 68. This statistic only includes victims who are sons and daughters of women, not mothers, sisters, partners… also murdered.

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The Almería fire opens the first front between Moreno and Vox over climate change

The Almería fire opens the first front between Moreno and Vox over climate change

The Los Gallardos fire in Almería has not only forced the deployment of the largest firefighting operation in recent years in Andalusia, but it has also caused the first political friction between the partners of the new Andalusian Government. Just a few hours after Juanma Moreno appeared alongside Pedro Sánchez in Turre to warn that forest fires are “increasingly dramatic” in a context marked by climate change, Vox publicly came out to correct that narrative. “Climate change cannot be an excuse to shirk responsibilities,” said the party’s spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Millán, on Tuesday.

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Feijóo praises the Rule of Law after the conviction of Sánchez's brother: “No one is above the law”

Feijóo praises the Rule of Law after the conviction of Sánchez’s brother: “No one is above the law”

The conviction of David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, to nine years of disqualification from public office “as the author by necessary cooperation of a crime of administrative prevarication” has immediately prompted a reaction from the PP. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has stated that the sentence issued by the Badajoz Court demonstrates that “no one” is “above the law, no matter whose family they belong to.” “It speaks well of our Rule of Law and should comfort all Spaniards,” he said in a message through social media.

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The wife of the man sucked out of an airplane window: “If we die, we die together”

The wife of the man sucked out of an airplane window: “If we die, we die together”

Last Friday, a passenger on a Ryanair flight between Thessaloniki (Greece) and Memmingen (Germany) was sucked out of the airplane window after it came loose during the flight. The passenger, a 61-year-old Serbian man, was saved by the seatbelt and the efforts of other passengers to prevent him from being thrown into the void. The plane was flying at 6,000 meters altitude.

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Luis Goytisolo: the keys to his life

Luis Goytisolo: the keys to his life

The passing of Luis Goytisolo (1935-2026) decisively closes a golden age of contemporary Spanish novel. Here we speak of a solid and profound narrative, full of expressive and intellectual boldness. Born into a well-off family, Luis and his other siblings had to overcome the foundational trauma of their mother’s death, which occurred during a bombing in the Civil War. Perhaps that was the driving force behind his later dedication to writing, where Luis stood out early with ‘Las afueras’ (1958), a book of stories that announced much of his world: postwar Barcelona, seen partly from the bourgeois elites.

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MP Ann Widdecombe was murdered 20 minutes after defending Farage in an interview

MP Ann Widdecombe was murdered 20 minutes after defending Farage in an interview

The murder of MP Ann Widdecombe last Thursday has taken an unexpected turn. After the suspect in the crime, a 28-year-old man, was released, the case has moved from the police to the counter-terrorism unit, which is now leading the investigation. The suspect has been re-arrested after it emerged that Widdecombe was killed at her home just 20 minutes after giving an interview in which she defended her party leader, Nigel Farage, from the accusations he has been involved in and that have led to his resignation.

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Man arrested for the fatal hit-and-run of the 17-year-old Norwegian girl on the A-7 in Mijas

Man arrested for the fatal hit-and-run of the 17-year-old Norwegian girl on the A-7 in Mijas

The investigation into the death of Nikoline, the 17-year-old Norwegian teenager who died after being hit on the A-7 while enjoying a vacation on the Costa del Sol, advanced this Tuesday with the arrest of a man as the alleged perpetrator of the hit-and-run. The Civil Guard officers are trying to confirm whether the van undergoing a forensic inspection was the vehicle that struck the young woman and whose driver fled without stopping.

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