The Sindicat Professional of Municipal Policies of the Guardia Urbana de Barcelona has spread through social networks a statement in which it warns tourists that Barcelona is not “a safe city”. “Thefts and violence are increasing, there are not enough police officers to prevent crime,” the document reads. They also…
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Colau refuses to prohibit prostitution in Barcelona
Ada Colau City Council has no intention of prohibiting prostitution in Barcelona. This is how the Council of Feminisms, Laura Pérez, has made clear that she has opted to improve the conditions in which sex workers have to practice this profession, and has defended that prostitution, without sexual exploitation, is…
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Blow to the illegal red tuna: roundup in the markets of Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga
The elite unit of the Seprona registers central markets of at least seven cities and also the companies Rafael Fuentes (Murcia) and Petaca Chico (Cádiz). The operation is still open
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Ikea will indemnify the client that an Odensvik basin amputated a finger
The Provincial Court of Barcelona agrees with the Ikea customer who lost a toe shortly before Christmas 2013.
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Four arrested for multiple sexual assault in Barcelona
It happened on May 19 at 6 in the morning when the victim left the disco Be Disco in the industrial estate El Pla de Molins de Rei. Half a dozen guys boarded her and took her to a vehicle. They put her in the trunk and sexually assaulted her.…
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Thank you very much for everything, “Frames”
The fact is that the future of Fotogramas is, now, an unknown. Last Friday, the 22nd, he closed his editorial office in Barcelona. Start a new journey with a new team in Madrid. Nobody escapes that the soul of Fotogramas dies in the move. What I hope will be a…
More InfoControllers of Barcelona pose a strike in July and August
The controllers of the Control Center of Gavà (Barcelona) have opened the door to call a strike during the months of July and August – on Wednesdays in some slots and on Sundays throughout the day – if throughout the morning of this Friday they do not get any response…
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Facebook will occupy 8 floors of the Torre Agbar in Barcelona
The Internet giant Facebook will install an operational center in Barcelona’s Torre Glòries to fight against false news, after closing an agreement with Competence Call Center (CCC), which has just rented eight floors in this building previously known as Torre Agbar
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They investigate the death of a placid homeless in the Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona
A court in Barcelona has opened proceedings to investigate the death of a homeless person after receiving a beating in the Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona. The Mossos d’Esquadra have not yet been able to determine the causes or who were the perpetrators of the attack and the results of…
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Barcelona has become a “city of spies”, says The Financial Times
The independence crisis has divided the Catalan capital and turned the great tourist destination into a center of espionage because in the procés, “information, rather than violence has become the main weapon.” This is what a report by the prestigious British economic newspaper, signed by correspondent Michael Stothard, states.
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The CNMC approves that the private AVE Madrid-Barcelona will be launched in October
Competition has given the green light to the private AVE project that will unite Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona. With this measure, the CNMC will break with Renfe’s monopoly in these connections.
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Battle between street vendors on a beach in Barcelona
More than a dozen street vendors were involved in a pitched battle on a beach in Barcelona last Thursday. In the images that a Twitter user has uploaded to the social network, we see how two groups of people hit and throw objects. It can also be seen that, while…
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Six months in jail for two Mossos for beating a protester in Can Vies
The Audiencia de Barcelona has sentenced two Mossos d’Esquadra to six months in prison for a crime of injuries for beating a helpless youth with a baton in a portal in the Sants neighborhood in May 2014. The magistrates have acquitted the others three agents accused as it has not…
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A man dies stabbed in a narco-pipe in the Gothic quarter
A man has died from stab wounds on Tuesday afternoon in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, according to the Mossos D’Esquadra. At around 5:30 p.m. the Catalan police received a notice informing that there was a wounded man in this Barcelona neighborhood.
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The Viaró School in Barcelona, condemned for sexist discrimination
Viaró School, concerted and Opus Dei, must pay two penalties totaling 50,002 euros issued by the Labor Inspectorate for sexist discrimination against women for hiring only male teachers for their center and for preventing the internal professional promotion of women.
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The DGT bet seamlessly for autonomous driving: Barcelona will be a laboratory for its development
For the DGT, it is foreseeable that autonomous vehicles begin their journey on Spanish roads in different phases, before even in urban areas, which will need to be mapped almost millimetrically so that autonomous cars can circulate through them. And in this laborious process of development, the DGT has promoted…
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The DGT bet seamlessly for autonomous driving: Barcelona will be a laboratory for its development
For the DGT, it is foreseeable that autonomous vehicles begin their journey on Spanish roads in different phases, before even in urban areas, which will need to be mapped almost millimetrically so that autonomous cars can circulate through them. And in this laborious process of development, the DGT has promoted…
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The minor who denounced a group rape in Barcelona had filed 5 false accusations for similar acts
A 17-year-old girl reported being the victim of a multiple rape in the early hours of Friday morning in a well-known concert hall in Barcelona.
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The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested two people in the framework of the investigation of the alleged rape of a minor in the Razzmatazz room in Barcelona. According to police sources, these two people were arrested because they had been summoned to testify at the police station in relation to the…
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The DGT bet seamlessly for autonomous driving: Barcelona will be a laboratory for its development
For the DGT, it is foreseeable that autonomous vehicles begin their journey on Spanish roads in different phases, before even in urban areas, which will need to be mapped almost millimetrically so that autonomous cars can circulate through them. And in this laborious process of development, the DGT has promoted…
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