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The Government has set in motion this Wednesday the machinery for the 2027 general state budgets with a first meeting between the Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, and the spokesperson of Sumar and Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun.
The judge of the National Court María Tardón has summoned to testify as witnesses the president of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the former Chief of Staff of the Government Delegation Gonzalo Sanz in the case investigating the massive irregular entry of immigrants into Ceuta from Morocco on July 30 and 31.
The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, met this Wednesday in Mérida with the president of the Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola, to convey Catalonia’s solidarity with the whole of Spain, especially regarding regional financing, and to reaffirm the ties that unite both communities as a result of the migration process that took place last century, which caused more than 100,000 people from Extremadura to emigrate to Catalonia.
At the Barcelona Court, the only trial for the police charges of October 1st began this Wednesday. On the defendants’ bench sit four National Police officers – three commanders and a shotgunner – accused of a serious injury crime for having given the order to shoot a rubber bullet that hit Roger Español, a man who was protesting the seizure of the ballot boxes and who lost the vision in one eye. The defendants were denied the application of the amnesty law, considering that the loss of a main organ is one of the circumstances excluded from the regulation.
La Guardia Civil has dismantled a makeshift apartment in Ceuta where more than twenty people who entered the autonomous city irregularly during the mass crossing were staying overnight. The 25 migrants, among whom were six minors, lived in very precarious conditions, “with no sanitary conditions,” according to the armed institute.
Nine years after the police charges on October 1, four National Police officers are sitting in the dock for the serious injuries they caused to Roger Español, a protester who was hit by a rubber bullet and lost sight in one eye. The events took place during the operation deployed near the Ramon Llull school, in the Fort Pienc neighborhood of Barcelona. This is the only case opened against National Police officers for the charges carried out against the voters of October 1.
In Ceuta, the question is no longer how many people have arrived, but how long they will stay. The Government has identified 1,800 migrants out of the thousands living in the makeshift settlements set up on the beaches of Tarajal and Benítez or in any empty lot…
A new dialogue of the deaf. A month and a half after the Ceuta crisis erupted, following the avalanche of more than 70,000 immigrants that overwhelmed the Spanish border on July 30 and 31, Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo took advantage of their parliamentary duel this Wednesday, during the control session of the Executive in the Congress of Deputies, to accuse each other of trying to “chronify” the problem, amid mutual reproaches. Their clash has once again shown that the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition do not have the slightest margin to try to reach any consensus solution to this serious crisis, while the new 2027 electoral cycle is already looming very close on the horizon.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, took advantage of the debate on the State of the European Union this Wednesday to speak about the Ceuta crisis and address Spaniards and Ceutians in particular. “The border of Ceuta is a European border. Because Ceuta is Spain. Ceuta is Europe. And Europe will be by your side,” assured the head of the Community Executive in the plenary session of the European Parliament gathered in Strasbourg (France), where she proposed the creation of a European response instrument to deal with mass entries of irregular migrants.
