Catalan Trial: Day 11 summary
Some pro-independence protests were peaceful, but ‘others were violent, with harassment, and objects thrown,’ Enric Millo, the Spanish government delegate in Catalonia during the 2017 political...
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Catalan Trial: Day 10 summary
‘The force used was the minimum required,’ Spain’s former secretary of state for security said about the Spanish police operation to stop the 1 October...
Catalan Trial: Day 8 summary
Witnesses began giving testimony today, on the 8th day of the trial of Catalan independence leaders in Spain’s Supreme Court, including Spain’s former prime minister,...
Spain detains 66 in drug trafficking hotspot
Spain’s Guardia Civil have detained 66 people in a southern drug trafficking hotspot where authorities have launched a crackdown on narcos whose operations have become...
Two Pussy Riot members kicked off plane drunk
Two members of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were kicked off a plane at Barcelona airport because they were drunk, a police spokesman has...
Police seize over 200 stuffed endangered animals
Spain’s Guardia Civil police have seized more than 200 stuffed endangered animals, including giraffes, rhinos, lions and tigers, from an illegal taxidermy workshop that was...
Italian mafia arrests on Costa del Sol
Spain’s Guardia Civil police have broken up a violent branch of Italy’s Camorra crime group, which they believe stole hashish from rival drug traffickers in...
Catalan trial to start 12 February
The trial of 12 Catalan pro-independence leaders involved in a bid to secede from Spain will start on 7 or 12 February, Supreme Court president...
Jailed Catalan leaders on way to Madrid prisons
The nine Catalan pro-independence jailed leaders have left the prisons in Catalonia where they had been incarcerated for the last seven months. They have started the...
Spain grieves toddler found dead in well
Spain grieved on Saturday after a toddler who fell down a well was found dead in a tragic end to an intense 13-day rescue operation...
