Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, has opened an investigation into the alleged activities of a group linked with the Russian intelligence service during the 2017 Catalan breakaway bid, three sources have confirmed to EL PAÍS. The sealed investigation, opened by Judge Manuel García-Castellón, has been assigned to the General Information Office of the National Police, which specializes in counter-terrorism. The case centers on an elite military group called Unit 29155
Nineteen former socialist leaders convicted in Spain in a macro case of corruption - court
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Spain: Banks lose almost 6 billions in the stock market after the government agreement between PSOE and United Podemos
Venezuela ex-intel chief goes missing in Spain ahead of US extradition: police
3 month agoThe @tsunami_dem considers the three-day protest focused on blocking the northern border with France to be fulfilled. The cut in the AP7 in Girona continues and for now nobody moves. This is another of the barricades, the largest, with tires
3 month agoProtesters cut the AP-7 with several barricades. They also throw glass bottles on the asphalt to hinder the access of the Mossos d'Esquadra
3 month agoAerial view of the AP7 protest in Salt. Hundreds of demonstrators have set up a concert in the middle of the two giant barricades. The @guardiacivil is located beyond the bridge
The Mossos detain a truck driver who has tried to run over a group of protesters who participated in the cutting of the N-II road in the town of La Jonquera
Sánchez and Iglesias sign a pre-agreement for a coalition government
3 month agoThis is the small group that is cutting the AP7. They are surrounded by @mossos and @guardiacivil that take them towards a way out to Pertús
The Parliament of Catalonia approves a motion in which it expresses its "will to exercise in a concrete way the right to self-determination", with the votes in favor of JxCat, ERC and the CUP, and the abstention of the commons
The Mossos arrest a Democratic Tsunami protester at the border
The Constitutional Court warns Torrent again and annuls the agreements on Catalonia self-determination
The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a demonstrator from Tsunami Democràtic on the border with La Jonquera (Girona) for an attack on an agent of the authority, according to Europa Press sources have informed the Catalan police
3 month agoIndependence protesters protest the eviction of French police in La Jonquera
3 month agoThe Tsunamis say French riot police have used tear gas at the border and are dragging separatist protestors off.
The French police begin the eviction of the protesters that block La Jonquera. On the Spanish side of the border, the Mossos negotiate for #TsunamiDemocràtic to lift the camp
The French police warns the protesters: either they clear the road or they will use force to reopen the traffic after seven hours of blockade
Catalan independence campaign group Democratic Tsunami calls on supporters to block France-Spain border crossing
First poll of elections in Spain: The PSOE and Podemos fall, strong rise of PP and Vox and Ciudadanos sinks, according to the Rtve poll
Spain elections exit poll: the PSOE falls (119), the PP grows (90), Vox doubles (59) and countryside sinks (15), according to the Gad 3 poll
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3 month agoSánchez: "Today's vote will choose tomorrow's Spain"
3 month agoThree ships burned in a fire at a shipyard in Pontevedra
A source in the Spanish Foreign Ministry denies the presence of Spanish casualties in the stabbing incident in Jordan
3 month agoSpain allows refueling a VIP Russian air Force aircraft in Tenerife (possible en route to Venezuela)
Jordanian police say they arrested a man after stabbing several tourists, a tour guide and a security man in Jerash
3 month agoThousands in Barcelona protest KingFelipeVI's visit
3 month agoFirefighters put out the bonfire in which the protesters had burned, among other things, photos of King Felipe VI, in the middle of Avinguda Diagonal de Barcelona.
