The situation of the cruise ship held in Cape Verde, the closure of the trial in the mask case and current sports events mark a day full of informational tension. This is how Carlos Alsina summarizes the main news of the day.
The cruise in Cape Verde and the hantavirus alert
The first thing is the situation of the one hundred and forty-seven people aboard the Dutch cruise ship anchored off the coast of Cape Verde. Among them fourteen Spaniards. It is known that there are at least five Catalans, three from Madrid, one from Valencia and one from Galicia. And they are all asymptomatic for now.
Of the seven people suspected of being infected by hantavirus There are three who have been allowed to disembark to go directly to the airport by ambulance and from there fly to the Netherlands, Germany and also the Canary Islands. Because Health has accepted that the doctor from the cruise ship who was in a serious condition be hospitalized here instead of traveling to the Netherlands with another of the sick.
With these three people off the cruise, the shipping company reported that its objective was still to head to the Canary Islands. A journey that he estimates would take three days. This plan, which coincides with what the World Health Organization has been maintaining, clashed head-on with what the Ministry of Health had defended, which no longer saw it as necessary as it saw no risk of contagion.
Neither did the government of the Canary Islands, which understood that without infected people inside they could go directly to the Netherlands. Fernando Clavijo asked for a convenient justification if the decision, as it ended up happening, was to go to the Canary Islands. What the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria Antonio Morales has complained about is lack of transparency and lack of coordination.
Final phase of the mask case trial
Final hours already in the trial for the case masks. Today we will listen to Aldama, Koldo and Ábalos again if they so deem, making use of their right to the last word. Beforehand, the parties will defend their conclusions. The acquittal, which is what the defenses ask for; the sentence with the reduction for the businessman, which is what the private accusations ask for; and the conviction without changing anything, which is what anti-corruption prosecutor Alejandro Luzón has presented.
Which is who we pay the most attention to today in some areas for what they say, or rather, for how to say it. After maintaining the request for 24 years in prison for Ábalos, nineteen and a half for Koldo and seven for Aldama. With this controversy published about whether he wanted to lower it even more than he had already lowered it and he did not do so after speaking with the State Attorney General Teresa Peramato.
This situation, and the fact that the private accusations of which the Popular Party is a part have asked to apply a qualified mitigating circumstance to Aldama and therefore an even greater reduction in sentence, has served the Minister of Justice Félix Bolaños to denounce an alleged pact between Ábalos and Koldo’s partner and the PP.
Well, it is assumed that you will also want to thank Mr. Aldama and the Prosecutor’s Office for collaborating in this and the rest of the cases. It is because of this collaboration that, despite the fact that the UCO considers the businessman number one in the plot, whoever pays is in charge, Anti-Corruption requests a third part of sentence than for Ábalos.
Atlético falls and Europe is still at stake
Day of mourning for red-and-white fans like Amón. He couldn’t score a single goal Atlético de Madrid in London and Spanish Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal did. A solitary goal from Saka stops Simeone’s team from playing in their third Champions League final. The headlines in the press today say it all: Dies on the shore says El Confidencial; El País points out that it is at the gates of the final; he says goodbye to his dream titled El Mundo; “It’s just one step away,” says As; Damn Champions Marca sentence.
Today Arsenal will meet their rival in Budapest. PSG and Bayernwith a one-goal advantage for the Parisians, are playing for a place in the final today in Germany. Tomorrow is the Rayo Vallecanoalso from Madrid, the one who has the possibility of getting into a European final. He defends in France against Strasbourg the goal advantage achieved in Vallecas.
