Spain:Expect Violence - Taking Away People's Food And Homes.

Published on 20 Jul 2012 by RussiaToday

Police have used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse angry protesters thronging the streets of Spain. Dozens of people were injured and a number of activists detained during the latest nationwide anti-austerity demonstrations. In a major show of strength, hundreds of thousands have been taking part in the protests. People marched in 80 cities across the country to protest against more suffocating austerity which is to come. That's after the German Parliament gave the green light to the 100-billion Euro bailout for the country's battered banks. The EU's finance ministers are now expected to approve the conditions for the financial lifeline to Madrid. Carlos Delclos, a sociologist at Pompeu Fabra University, believes the situation in Spain is only going to go from bad to worse.

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#Spain #Cinera:Demonstrators attacked police with stones, firecrackers and rockets fired from homemade bazookas.

Police fired rubber bullets at some 200 miners protesting austerity cuts in the northern Spanish village of Cinera. ­Havoc erupted after police tried to remove one of several barricades set ablaze by protesting masked miners on a highway near the village.

Several men then attacked the police by launching rockets from homemade bazookas, hurling firecrackers and flinging stones with slingshots.

 Police clad in bulletproof vests and wielding shields responded by firing rubber bullets and smoke bombs at the protesters. Officers eventually withdrew from Cinera, reportedly under pressure from the miners, who continued to pelt stones and firecrackers, chanting “We will not stop. They will get tired before we do.”

It is unclear how many miners and policemen were injured in the clashes.

 Several mining towns and villages have been protesting the Spanish government’s plans to slash subsidies to the coal sector by over 60 per cent, from 301 million euro last year down to 111 million this year. A sector-wide strike has been declared, and rail and road transit was paralyzed in the northern Asturias and Leon provinces as miners set up makeshift barricades composed of burning tires, garbage containers and railroad ties.

 Union officials say the austerity measures could jeopardize the jobs of around 8,000 coal miners, and up to 30,000 people indirectly employed by the sector.

The Spanish government has implemented a number of unpopular cost-slashing measures to reduce its swollen budget deficit since Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took office last year.

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Ruth And Joseph Breton : Ruth Ortiz Spent For The First Time Mother's Day Without Her Two Children.

Two days after declaring for the first time before the judge, Ruth Ortiz, the mother of two missing children from Cordoba, last seen seven months ago, spent her first Mother's Day alone without her two children Joseph 2 and 6 year old Ruth . Ruth Ortiz is now convinced  that her ex-husband, Joseph Breton, killed the toddlers for revenge: "He is a murderer and while they were away, killed them and hid them," she said during a ceremony at the gates of the prison Alcolea (Córdoba), where the children's father has been incarcerated since last October.

Ruth Ortiz accompanied by one hundred cyclists marched from the bridge of El Arenal of Cordoba to the provincial prison to demand the release of her two children. "I am very grateful for all who come. Thanks for helping us remember that my children are still missing," said Ortiz.

During the march Ruth Ortiz made ​​a stop at the estate of the Quemadillas owned by the family of Joseph Breton and where the search for the missing children has been concentrated on by the police.  After hanging up some posters with photos of  her children, their mother said she  feels "powerless".

Ortiz said she did not feel anything special for it being the Mother's Day: "Any day is the same without my children. I have no hopes of finding them."

The ceremony ended with the release of doves at the door of of the prisons gate. An hour and fifteen minutes before the march reached the vicinity of the prison, the parents of Joseph Breton were seen leaving in a taxi after visiting with their son.

#Mallorca :Spanish doctor ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after a failed abortion

An expectant mother having an ultrasound scan. The mother of the child born in Palma de Mallorca had a scan which she was wrongly told showed the abortion had been a success. Photograph: Chad Ehlers/Getty Images

 

A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after a failed abortion operation meant the boy's mother was obliged to see her pregnancy through to the end.

In a unique case, a court in Palma de Mallorca ordered the unnamed doctor to pay almost €1,000 (£800) a month in maintenance for the child until he reaches his 25th birthday.

"There has never been a case like this before in Spain," said Eva Munar, lawyer for the 24-year-old mother. "We don't know if it has ever happened anywhere else in the world."

The boy was born in October 2010, six months after his mother had gone for an abortion at the city's Emece clinic. The operation had been performed when the mother was almost seven weeks pregnant. The doctor told her two weeks later that a scan proved she was no longer pregnant.

In his sentence, Judge Francisco Pérez said the doctor had paid virtually no attention to the scan, though Munar said the clinic had not produced a copy.

"The scan lasted three minutes and I was out again," the mother told journalists on Thursday. "It was: 'You are fine, off you go and carry on with your life as normal.' " She did not return to the clinic for three months, and only after becoming convinced she must have become pregnant by mistake once more.

A fresh scan revealed, however, that this was the same pregnancy. She was already into her sixth month and past the 22-week limit for abortions in Spain. "I sought advice and was told that it would be a crime to abort at that stage," she said.

The woman, who had hidden her pregnancy from her family out of fear at their reaction, was forced to confront her parents with the news. She and the child now live with them. Despite the fact that a suction technique had been used to try to remove the embryo, the boy was born healthy.

The mother sued the doctor for damages, with the court awarding her €150,000 (£120,000). It also decided the doctor and his insurer should pay maintenance of €978 a month for 25 years, or a further €293,000.

"I am living off my parents now, and it shouldn't be like that," the mother said.

Among other things, Pérez pointed out that the mother had suffered huge stress because she did not know whether her child would be born healthy after the failed abortion attempt.

The consequences of the doctor's error, Perez said, would be with the mother forever.

"I am OK now, because I have had to accept things. There is no other option. I'm happy with my son," she said. "When I have to explain all this to him, I'll try to make sure that he feels OK about it. It was back then that he was not wanted, not now."

Munar said: "Obviously this has changed her life. This is not what she was planning and she certainly didn't expect it to happen after visiting the clinic.

"I am just glad the child was born healthy and we didn't have to bring a different kind of negligence case."

The doctor's lawyers are reportedly set to appeal against the decision.

Source : The Guardian

#Bedindorm:Andrew Dmytruk Held In A Spanish Jail For 17 Months Without Trial.

A mentally disabled British man, held in a Spanish jail for 17 months without trial, has become suicidal and should be released, his elderly mother said yesterday.

Andrew Dmytruk, 51, who was brain damaged after contracting meningitis as a baby, has been on remand since being accused of arson when a fire broke out in his Benidorm hotel in December 2010. His widowed mother, Doris O'Brien, who insists he is innocent, said he recently became so desperate that he slashed his wrists and throat.

"He couldn't stand it any more. This chap found him lying in his own blood, convulsing. He so nearly died," said Mrs O'Brien, 77. "It is disgusting. He was 13 stone when he went into prison. Now he is about eight stone, his bones are sticking out and he has lost teeth. He can't eat the food so he is refusing it.

"He is like a 10-year-old, quite jovial but when he gets mad he has childish tantrums. He can't understand why he is in jail and nor can I. He has never harmed anybody, never been in trouble with anybody," said the retired factory supervisor from Nottinghamshire, who has been borrowing money from family to fly to Spain monthly.

Mr Dmytruk's case has now been taken up by the charity Fair Trials International, which is calling for him to be either tried swiftly or released on bail. Its chief executive, Jago Russell, said yesterday: "Andrew has been held in prison for nearly 18 months with no trial date in sight. We are very concerned for his well-being so far away from home, in a world he struggles to understand, and hope the Spanish authorities deal with the case as quickly as possible and reconsider the decision to keep him in prison."

Mr Dmytruk was holidaying with his mother when a fire broke out in the early hours of the morning in a fourth floor room of the Ambassador Playa Hotel. The guests, who were mostly British, had to be evacuated and several were treated for smoke inhalation.
Despite his mother's assertions that he was asleep in their room on the second floor at the time, the hotel claimed he had been spotted on CCTV near the site of the fire. Mrs O'Brien said her son was terrified when he was arrested and taken away by Spanish police: "He just screamed, 'Mum what are they taking me for? What have I done?' It was terrible. I was in that much shock that I didn't know what to do."

Mrs O'Brien, who has been Mr Dmytruk's sole carer for many years, said that on 21 December 2010, he returned from a night out with friends and mistakenly got out of the lift on the 4th floor but was "fast asleep" in his room when the alarm was raised.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/disabled-briton-held-without-trial-in-spain-for-17-months-7737987.html

#SanJavier #Murcia :TRAINER AND CADET KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

A military C-101 jet, on a training flight that left Murcia San Javier on Thursday, crashed into a field in the town of Meco, near Madrid, before it was scheduled to return to San Javier as part of a routine training flight.

Two military officers, a Captain and Lieutenant Instructor, who have not yet been named until their families have been notified, were killed in the crash.

Update: The pilots are named as Captain Julio Castellón, born in Madrid in 1977, and officer Eduardo Castillo, from Tenerife, serving his fourth year at San Javier.

The 112 emergency centre received a call at around 11:00am and officers from the Guardia Civil were quick to attend, along with emergency ambulances and the fire service. Human remains were all that were found at the wreckage, located in a field near the Alcalá-Meco prison, around 40 kilometres from Madrid. 

Investigators state that the saw the two occupants tried to eject from the aircraft as their parachutes were deployed. The wreckage was spread over a wide area and forensic teams were meticulously collecting the evidence to allow investigators to ascertain the cause of the tragedy. It was thought that one of the pilots survived the initial impact, but both were confirmed as dead.

The C-101 training aircraft is the most popular choice for trainee pilots, having been operational for around 30 years and seen around 2,000 pilots successfully make the transition to become air force pilots. It has a top speed of 770 kilometres per hour at 8,535 meters and can accommodate a pilot and a student.

Similar to the Hawk in build and design, it is built entirely in Spain by CASA and its reliability, ease of use, low cost of operations and comprehensive instrumentation make it a very suitable aircraft for flight school and acrobatic flights, according to the Air Force. The aircraft is used in display by the Patrulla Águila, the Spanish equivalent to the British Red Arrows.


http://www.theleader.info/article/34023/spain/national/san-javier-trainer-and-cadet-killed-in-plane-crash/

#Spain: Ex - Pats #NHS Crackdown - Health Minister announces crackdown on foreigners using the Spanish Health Service

Fri, 20 Apr 2012

The cabinet on Friday decided to crack down on foreigners using the Spanish Health Service as part of an additional 7 billion € of cuts. They intend to toughen the conditions for inclusion on the Padrón census. Minister for Health, Ana Mato, said ‘We are going to end the abuses committed by some foreigners’. She is going to change the Ley de Extranjería which intends to put a limit to the so-called ‘health tourism’, which has seen family members of foreign residents to come to Spain ‘exclusively’ to receive health attention. Ana Mato insisted that from now it will not be so easy to come to Spain, sign the Padrón census, and obtain a health card, as it has been. ‘Just getting on the Padrón they all had the right to the health card’, said the Minister. ‘Now there will be a series of additional requirements when the Padrón is issued’. She said to guarantee the universality of the Health Service ‘for all the Spaniards’ it was necessary to stop the illegal and undue use which some foreigners have been making of this service. On Thursday the Minister met with the regions and they agreed on a new article which will ‘explicitly prohibit a person moving regions in search of health attention'. The Minister considers these measures will do away with health tourism and save 1 billion €. Ana Mato also said that she was going to revise some international conventions on the matter, given that ‘many’ countries do not repay the money they owe Spain for the health attention given here to their citizens. Among the other measures approved, the end of paying for some medicaments ‘with little therapeutic value’. A list of included medicines accepted nationally is to be prepared. The Minister said ‘We all have to collaborate with those who having a worse time’.