A 58-year-old man has been arrested as the alleged perpetrator of three forest fires in the l’Anoia region. The operation, carried out by the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Rural Agents Corps, took place last Monday, when the accused was able to be detained.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo continues in Ceuta this Sunday and has met with associations of the Civil Guard and Police unions at the PP headquarters of the autonomous city. Meanwhile, Miguel Tellado, the party’s secretary general, has deepened the idea of blaming the Government for what happened and has also wanted to warn that Ceuta is far from recovering normality. “We remain just as unprotected. What happened could happen again tomorrow,” he warned in an interview on EsRadio.
The case dividing the United States is stuck in court. The jurors in the trial against Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of killing her three children, informed the judge this Wednesday that they had reached a deadlock for the second time, a day after sending the judge a first note stating that they were unable to reach an agreement.
Spain has a certain tendency towards atypical borders. The municipality of Llívia or the border by turns — six months French, six Spanish — of the Island of the Pheasants, between Irún and Hendaye are two good examples. In this line, Spanish geography has the curious honor of hosting the shortest border in the world. It is barely 85 meters of sand that separate Spain and Morocco on African land due to the Spanish possession of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
Every summer, the road changes the everyday map of Spain: families heading to the coast, groups of friends chaining kilometers, drivers returning on a Sunday afternoon, and travelers adjusting the journey to the heat, fatigue, or unforeseen events. The departure operation retains its symbolic strength, but the road trip is no longer understood solely as the time that separates the origin from the destination. Increasingly, it is also built in those intermediate moments when one decides to stop, rest, reorganize the car, or simply regain energy before continuing.
If any of the three men appearing on this page seem familiar, crossed paths with one, and approached you asking for money claiming to have been robbed, know that if you were suspicious, you avoided being scammed. The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested two men and are searching for a third, accused of scamming dozens of people who, in good faith, lent them money believing they were in trouble and had no cash to return to their country. The victims number over twenty, and the police suspect there are many more who fell for it.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have found anti-aircraft projectiles in an apartment in the Eixample, in Barcelona, after receiving a prior warning. Following this discovery, the security force activated the Tedax, who collected the projectiles and took care of destroying them.
Not all past times were better. In fact, most of the time it was worse than the deceptive memory suggests. It is understandable that older people feel nostalgia for their youth, when – for better or worse – they had their whole lives ahead of them. It is more surprising that young people feel it for an idealized time they have not lived through. But, beyond the ignorance it denotes – and which, given the levels of reading comprehension of our schoolchildren, shows no signs of improving – it is an indicator of the discomfort and bewilderment that the present arouses in part of society.
President Donald Trump has never been a fan of the Pulitzer Prizes. Not long ago, he demanded that those awards be withdrawn from the media that investigated his Russian connections. This year’s edition, announced this Monday, also does not put him in a good light, and much of the awarded information, reports, and opinions expose the alleged corruption and his authoritarian policy, especially against opponents and immigrants, which have marked his first year back in the White House.
Intense heat returns to the Peninsula (if it ever left this summer). The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has warned that Spain begins today its third heat wave which will likely last until Thursday, the 23rd.