Spanish police start wearing body cameras to help security
The Spanish National Police have begun wearing body cameras to record their interactions with the public in a move aimed at ensuring greater security that...
Fernando Grande-Marlaska
Spain to re-open land borders with Morocco on 17 May
Spain will re-open the land borders of Ceuta and Melilla with Morocco on Tuesday 17 May – precisely from midnight between Monday and Tuesday of next...
Spain’s spy chief sacked, following phone hacking scandal
The Spanish government sacked Paz Esteban, the director of its intelligence agency (CNI), on Tuesday, following the hacking of politicians’ mobile phones, including the devices of...
Spain at odds with rights groups over ‘expulsion’ of unaccompanied child migrants
Following a court in Ceuta suspending for 72 hours from Monday* the repatriation of unaccompanied child migrants who crossed into the Spanish enclave city in...
Police have now arrested six over suspected homophobic killing in Galicia
Since the brutal murder of Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old gay man in A Coruña in the region of Galicia in the early hours of last...
Extremadura in English – weekly round-up (3 May)
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (7 May) Vaccinations to accelerate in May The vaccination rollout in Extremadura is set to increase to over 50,000 a...
More death threat letters received as Madrid elections approach
Yet another threatening letter containing bullets and addressed to a Spanish politician was discovered on Wednesday – this time intercepted after security checks by Spain’s...
Spain’s Interior Minister and left-wing leader receive death threat letters with bullets
Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grandes-Marlaska, as well as the prominent leader of the left-wing Podemos group, Pablo Iglesias, have received death threat letters containing bullets, Iglesias has said....
Sánchez: violence ‘unacceptable’ – political fallout over protests for jailed rapper
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said that his government will confront all forms of violence and that it is ‘an attack on democracy’, following...
After Filomena, snow and ice still causing havoc across Spain
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (18 Jan) ALSO READ: Details of curfews & restrictions for all regions of Spain during ‘State of Alarm’ Madrid and other...
