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They had become a real threat. The six arrested last Friday in Ceuta, Ibiza and Madrid as alleged members of a terrorist cell linked to the Sahel branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) had an increasing determination to commit an action and had sought potential targets in their environment, according to sources close to the investigation. It was a “cohesive group” that had collected knives and cartridges, in addition to handling “very explicit” Islamic State material, in which reference was made to how to carry out attacks or how to manufacture devices. The arrest of the group, aged between 30…

Short, poorly paid working hours. Combine several schools if you want to complete the day. Contracts as leisure instructors. Uncertainty about whether the next course will have a contract. These are some of the situations and working conditions that those known as vigilancewho are educational support personnel who serve students with educational needs related to a disability or behavioral disorder. The complaints from this sector are recurring because their situation is not improving and this Tuesday they staged a protest in Vallès Occidental (which they want to extend to other territories in the coming weeks) to denounce that they feel…

The situation left investigators stumped. One of the gardeners crowded into the plantation that had just been dismantled did not even know that people on the street had been wearing masks for months, because of Covid. He had been locked in that room for more than a year, with mattresses on the floor, one against the other, pots scattered on tables, bottles with yellow liquid, cardboard as a bed with duvets thrown on top. Pseudorooms without windows, with clothes hanging on lines and full of dirt. Three years after that police operation, a pioneering ruling by the Barcelona Court has…

This Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez pointed directly – although without citing him – to Carlos Mazón (PP), president of the Generalitat Valenciana, as the person responsible for the erroneous decisions taken during the management of the tragedy of the dana in Valencia, which has claimed the lives of at least 122 people. The president has used a calm tone in his first intervention in Congress to report on this crisis, a month after it occurred, but he has made it clear that he believes that the institutions that depend on the central Government, such as the State Agency for Meteorology (Aemet)…

The former general secretary of UGT in Andalusia, Francisco Fernández, and three other former senior officials of the union have been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 50 million euros, respectively, as perpetrators of a continuing crime of document falsification in competition with a crime of subsidy fraud for the “conscious and fraudulent application of funds received specifically from subsidy for the implementation of training courses for unemployed and employed people for purposes other than those provided by UGT-A to finance the union’s own activities,” according to the sentence drafted by the Third Section of the…

Abascal accuses Sánchez of abandoning the Valencians “out of political calculation, that is, out of evil” The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has charged against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accusing him of “not alerting them due to incompetence” and “not helping them due to political calculation, that is, due to evil.” He has told a story of victims of the dana who “day after day, for eternal days” woke up without light, water and without “anyone showing up, not a firefighter, not a soldier.” “All abandoned for days and days by a failed autonomous State,” he said.…

What’s on the front page of El Pais?  The front page of El Pais this morning 27/11/2024 reports “Netanyahu announces ceasefire in Lebanon, vows to respond forcefully if Hezbollah violates it”.  The paper says the Israeli prime minister is celebrating that the agreement allows him to continue attacking Gaza (“Hamas is left alone”) and to focus on Iran. The army is taking advantage of the last hours to bombard Beirut with unusual violence, creating traffic jams for people to flee. Trump threatens a trade war against Mexico, Canada and China. The president-elect blames them for migration and drug trafficking. Trump…

France announced Monday, November 25, a new campaign to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse, as the country reckons with a mass rape trial that has shocked the public. Equality Minister Salima Saa unveiled a raft of initiatives two days after tens of thousands of people staged new demonstrations in French cities against violence targeting women, where protesters denounced government actions as “window-dressing.” The case of Dominique Pelicot has caused outrage in France. The 71-year-old is on trial over raping and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated…

It was the last week of May. A bourgeois Parisian dinner party was being held near the Luxembourg Gardens. The evening’s hosts were entertaining three other couples. All were in their seventies and eighties, with the tanned complexions that mark the leisure time of a retired business class that remains proudly active. A tall, light-eyed redhead introduced herself, holding out her hand: “Aude de Thuin, entrepreneur.” This calling card is important to her. A high priestess of corporate trade shows since the 1980s and the founder, in 2005, of the famed Women’s Forum de Deauville, which brings together the worlds…

Six men linked to Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba face trial from Tuesday, November 26, accused of blackmail, attempted extorsion of millions of euros and holding the player at gunpoint. The case at the Paris criminal court has shocked the French football world – all the more so because the perpetrators include three childhood friends and Pogba’s own brother Mathias. In total, the group are accused of attempting to squeeze €13 million ($13.5 million) out of the player. The trial comes as Pogba battles professional woes, as Juventus this month cancelled his contract following his suspension until March 2025…