Sabotage
Police have arrested six people in Murcia for sabotage attacks on new works for the AVE high- speed train network.
The first attacks were launched in December last year and the following month the police arrested the alleged leaders a 55-year-old man and youths aged 17 and 14.
However, another wave of attacks happened in February when explosive cartridges packed with shrapnel were thrown at security staff.
The National Police say those now detained have links with extreme left wing groups.
They are charged with the possession and use of explosives that were used to sabotage construction machinery.
None of the attacks caused injuries but are reckoned to have added around €1.15 million in additional costs.
Arson
A POLICE officer received first degree burns after several containers were deliberately set alight in Palma, Mallorca in the early hours yesterday.
seven vehicles parked nearby, were severely damaged in the arson attacks in two streets.
Palma Fire Service and the Local Police confirmed they were called to the area at around 2.30am.
So far this year, dozens of rubbish containers have been vandalised, and police sources say no arrests have yet been made.
Murder Trial
A Brazilian youth who dismembered his uncle and aunt and killed their two young sons in a crime that shocked Spain told a court yesterday .. on the first day of his trial .. that is not able to control his emotions.
Francois Gouveia .. who’s 21 took the stand at a court in Guadalajara.
Gouveia, then aged 19, fled to his native Brazil shortly after killing his uncle and aunt, and their two young boys at their home in the village of Pioz near Guadalajara in August 2016.
Prosecutors have asked that he be handed a life sentence.
The defence argues he suffered a “temporary mental disorder” and hopes his confession will mitigate the sentence.
The court is expected to hand down its verdict and sentence in about a week.
Unemployment
Spain’s unemployment rate fell to 14.6 percent in the third quarter, its lowest level since the last quarter of 2008.
That beat a forecast from economists who expected the European Union’s second-highest unemployment rate after Greece’s would drop to 14.9 percent, compared with a euro zone average of 8.1.
Spanish unemployment has fallen steadily from its high in early 2013, when it reached nearly 27 percent.
In the third quarter, employment rose mostly in services and construction. It dropped in agriculture.