Policía Nacional has found 74 migrants living in overcrowded and precarious conditions inside a property in Ceuta. Ten of those found were unaccompanied minors. Officers arrested a local man suspected of leading a criminal organisation accused of facilitating irregular migration and exploiting vulnerable people. Investigators are also examining allegations of labour exploitation, violence and injuries to children, including possible injuries caused by dog bites. The operation took place on Tuesday […]

The Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal seeking to restore voting rights to more than 160,000 people who acquired Spanish nationality under the so-called Grandchildren’s Law. The appeal was brought by the Ombudsman after the Supreme Court suspended their right to vote in the general election on 29 November. The Constitutional Court ruled, by ten votes to two, that the appeal was premature because the case is still being dealt […]

Six people have now been arrested in connection with the death of an 83-year-old woman during a robbery at her home in Burgos. The woman was found tied up and gagged in her flat in the Gamonal district on 13 October. A post-mortem examination found she died from respiratory failure after being prevented from reaching the oxygen equipment she relied on. Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were arrested first. […]

Former Catalan regional minister Lluís Puig has returned to Spain after nine years abroad. The move follows the Supreme Court’s decision to lift the arrest warrants against him, Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín following developments in the Catalan amnesty case. Puig, who was culture minister during the 2017 independence drive, returned to Catalonia on Wednesday. He is expected to attend a session of the Catalan Parliament on Thursday, in a […]

Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has promised government support for communities hit by Storm Adam. After visiting the emergency coordination centre in Oliva, Valencia, he said the Cabinet would declare the affected municipalities severely impacted by a civil protection emergency. The move is intended to unlock financial assistance and speed up recovery work. Some areas of the Valencia coast and northern Alicante have recorded more than 700 litres of rain per […]

Police are investigating the killing of a 52-year-old woman in Madrid, in a case being examined as a possible gender-based murder. She was stabbed several times in the entrance to her residential building in the Carabanchel district on Tuesday afternoon. Emergency crews resuscitated her at the scene and took her to hospital, but she later died from her injuries. No arrest has been announced, and investigators are working to identify […]

Storm Adam has left four people dead after severe flooding in the Valencian Community. Two people died in Oliva, in Alicante province, joining two earlier victims in Barcelona and Sagunto. Roads were cut, rivers burst their banks, and 145 municipalities in Valencia and Alicante were placed under confinement orders. Emergency crews carried out hundreds of rescues, including people stranded on rooftops and in vehicles. By Monday evening, some transport services […]

Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena confirmed the lifting of national arrest warrants for former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two former ministers, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig. He said the move followed the Constitutional Court’s ruling on applying the amnesty law to embezzlement. It does not close the case: the Supreme Court’s criminal chamber must still decide whether to dismiss the charges. Llarena also criticised the tone of the Constitutional […]

The Interior Ministry says mobile-phone misuse accounted for more than four in ten distracted-driving complaints in a nationwide campaign this month. Guardia Civil traffic officers checked more than 422,000 vehicles and issued 9,245 complaints for distraction-related offences. Using a phone while driving carries a six-point penalty.