Teachers Murder
Statements provided by the self-confessed killer of a schoolteacher do not match the evidence found by investigators. The police have found “many traces of blood” inside Bernardo Montoya’s home in El Campillo, in Huelva.
An autopsy on Tuesday showed Laura Luelmo was sexually assaulted before her death, contrary to what Montoya has been claiming since his arrest.
Montoya said he killed the young woman but was unable to rape her.
Investigators believe that Montoya is trying to avoid being tried and sentenced to “permanent reviewable imprisonment,”. Only five people are serving this kind of sentence in Spain.
Migrant Deaths
Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says it found 11 dead migrants in a boat off the southern coast and rescued 33 others.
Rescuers had been looking for the boat about 11 miles south of the coast in Almeria for two days.
A Spanish navy scientific research vessel found the drifting boat east of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the early hours of this morning.
Journalists Protest
Reporters Without Borders had condemned the seizure of phones and computers of two journalists by police in Palma on the Balearic Islands.
The seizure from a Diario de Mallorca reporter Kiko Mestre and Europa Press reporter Blanca Pou was ordered on 11 December by a Palma judge who is investigating the leak of a police report. Both journalists specialize in covering court cases and crime.
The leaked report was about a high-profile corruption case on the Islands involving a discotheque chain owner who is reportedly protected by local police and politicians. The two journalists revealed details from the report in their media outlets in July.
In his order, the judge said the police should examine the journalists’ emails and messages on WhatsApp and other social network services.
The two media outlets have filed complaints against the judge who ordered the seizures, which have been condemned not only by journalists’ associations but also by many politicians of all parties. Around 50 journalists demonstrated outside the supreme court in defense of the confidentiality of sources.
Fishing Boat Lost
Three crew-members died yesterday when a fishing boat capsized off the coast Finisterre.
Another person is missing.
Six members of the crew of the Sin Querer Dos were pulled from the water alive.
The Maritime Rescue station in Finisterre dispatched a helicopter and a vessel, while other craft in the vicinity collected the survivors from lifeboats and brought them ashore.
Graffiti
LEADING members of leftist parties have spoken out after local branch offices were found plastered with far-right and fascist graffiti.
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias shared pictures on Twitter of his party’s Alicante City headquarters sprayed with slogans.
“Graffiti on party buildings doesn’t help. The ones who do it almost never come out in the media,” Iglesias said.
Antonio Maillo, of IU in Andalucia, replied to Iglesias with a picture of his party’s offices in the Malaga Province also covered in spray paint.