Unexpected turn at the start this Monday of the long-awaited trial for the alleged corruption scheme surrounding the payment of invoices during the projection and construction of the new Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus (Baix Camp), after fifteen years of judicial investigation. Two of the main accused, Josep Prat, then general director of the municipal holding Innova de Reus and former president of the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), and the architect Jorge Batesteza have reached a plea agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office after admitting to the crimes of prevarication, embezzlement of public funds, and document falsification, according to the defense lawyer of Josep Prat who reported this on the first day of the trial.

The contentious-administrative court number 5 of Barcelona has reactivated the case for the euthanasia of Francesc Augé, the 56-year-old man to whom the Generalitat granted dignified death, but whose father appealed to the justice system to halt it more than two years ago.