One dead in motorcycle accident and 780 arrested after riots in France over PSG's Champions victory

One dead in motorcycle accident and 780 arrested after riots in France over PSG’s Champions victory

Even during the Champions League final match in Budapest, skirmishes began in Paris between riot police and groups of fans – or mere troublemakers – on the Champs-Élysées and near the Parc des Princes, the stadium where PSG usually plays. The clashes escalated as the hours passed and spread to other cities such as Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges, Dieppe, Valenciennes, Grenoble, and Bordeaux. The toll was 780 arrests across France. Of these, 457 arrests were made under police custody. This figure represents a 32% increase in arrests compared to last year, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez in a press conference.

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Barcelona tries to put the kings of illegal pensions in jail

Barcelona tries to put the kings of illegal pensions in jail

The Barcelona City Council is developing a new strategy to stop the group dedicated to the most active illegal tourist accommodation in the city. The idea is to obtain prison sentences against those responsible. They are the Peruvian Swedes, the kings of clandestine boarding houses. This scheme basically rents large apartments to divide them into rooms and sublet them through platforms in a systematic way until the owners manage to evict them. For some time now, their supposed leaders have not been so calm.

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Jordi Pujol Ferrusola took his mother's "missals" to Andorra for the bank's "priest"

Jordi Pujol Ferrusola took his mother’s “missals” to Andorra for the bank’s “priest”

Jordi Pujol Ferrusola was the “driver” of the letters that his mother, Marta Ferrusola, sent to Andorra. The “missals,” in the terminology she invented to talk about money. This is what his son explained during the two days of questioning he underwent in the trial being conducted by the Audiencia Nacional against the Pujol family for alleged money laundering and illicit association.

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Clapton, blues of a survivor

Clapton, blues of a survivor

It took more than two decades to see Eric Clapton again in Barcelona, an eternity for his fans who last night, once again at the Palau Sant Jordi, enjoyed an evening that many no longer expected. Good blues and solos from a legendary guitar that, judging by the quality of what was heard, could well have started with the “as we said yesterday” that El último de la Fila used a few days ago, in their own return from the world of the living. “It seems we’re here for the same thing,” greeted a woman old enough to be a grandmother at the entrance of Sant Jordi to an acquaintance, who responded firmly: “to see the master.”

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Bandy Lee: “Trump is in psychiatric crisis and controls 5,000 nuclear warheads”

Bandy Lee: “Trump is in psychiatric crisis and controls 5,000 nuclear warheads”

For ten years, Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, has been investigating the conduct of President Donald Trump. A former researcher and professor of Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, affiliated with Harvard’s psychiatry program, she directs the World Mental Health Coalition, which investigates the psychological capacity of politicians. Not without controversy, her book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, published in 2017 during his first term, compiled essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other experts on the president’s mental health, an issue that is once again coming to the forefront.

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Inma Cuesta: “I am resentful; when someone deeply hurts me, I do not forget”

Inma Cuesta: “I am resentful; when someone deeply hurts me, I do not forget”

From San Sebastián, where she is shooting a new production, Inma Cuesta answers the call with that mix of closeness and concentration of someone in the middle of filming. Her joining Berlín y la dama del armiño was not part of a calculated strategy, but rather an unexpected intrusion: a proposal that arrived in the last days of the year, when work no longer appears on the immediate horizon and everything seems to shift towards the domestic.

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