Teens arrested for murder of social worker
Three minors have been arrested as the alleged perpetrators of the violent death of a 35-year-old female social worker in their supportive housing unit in Badajoz, western Spain.
Two boys aged 14 and 15 and a 17-year-old girl, all of them Spanish, are suspected of having strangled the victim with a belt before fleeing the scene in the woman's vehicle.
One of the other caregivers who worked with the teens has told the Spanish press they "worked in fear".
First Comic-Con outside of US to be held in Málaga
The world famous Comic-Con comic book convention, the world's most famous 'geek' and cosplay event, will this year not be held in the Californian city of San Diego as is customary, but in Málaga on the Costa del Sol.
Scheduled to take place between September 25th and 28th, around 60,000 people are expected to attend the fair at the Palacio de Ferias de Málaga (Fycma).
The huge pop culture convention will feature movie premieres, exhibits, panels, immersive experiences, and costume contests for games, role-playing games, and TV shows. It's expected that Málaga will continue hosting Comic-Con until 2027.
BBVA to offer crypto and ether trading to customers
Spain's second biggest bank has been given the green light by the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV) to provide bitcoin and ether trading to its clients.
BBVA has been looking for approval for several years to provide its clients with exposure to digital assets, and the decision comes as the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation takes full effect across the EU.
It's expected that Caixabank, Openbank and Kutxabank will be the next Spanish banks approved to provide crypto.
Spain targets senior ex-officials in flood deaths probe
A Spanish judge investigating alleged homicide over the handling of last year's devastating floods in Valencia summoned two former senior officials on Monday but spared the region's under-fire leader Carlos Mazón.
Popular fury has targeted officials in the eastern region that suffered 225 deaths and widespread destruction in the October 29 floods, Spain's deadliest such disaster in decades.
A criminal investigation into alleged homicide and injuries due to negligence led by a judge in the flood-hit town of Catarroja has also focused on them because regions are responsible for emergency management in the country's decentralised political system.
The judge ordered Valencia's ex-interior minister Salomé Pradas and former emergencies official Emilio Argueso to testify on a date to be confirmed, the Spanish judiciary said in a statement.
A mass telephone alert to warn residents on October 29th was sent well after floodwater was already gushing through towns and claiming victims.
The alert "was late and mistaken" and the storm that triggered the floods "was not an unforeseen weather event" because national weather agency AEMET had already warned about it, the judge wrote in her ruling.
"The problem does not lie in the absence of information... rather in the fact that faced with this information, it was either ignored, its scope was not understood, or relevant decisions were not taken by those with decision-making power," she added.
In a statement after the announcement, Pradas said she would "always be willing" to help disclose the truth about the management of the floods.
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