Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Wednesday July 9 2008
By h.b. - Jul 9, 2008 - 9:55 AM
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El Mundo leads with the Boric Acid case verdict where four police technicians have been found not guilty of a crime when they allegedly changed reports on the Madrid train bombings which attempted to link the explosions to ETA.
The paper headlines that the Forensic Police were ‘untruthful’ by not linking ETA to the March 11th case. It’s another attempt to resurrect the conspiracy theory.
El Mundo says the sentence in the case establishes that a report was altered in an irregular way – an inadequate way and improper of any official body – but it was not a crime.
Rubalcaba says that the sentence ends the ‘nightmare for four honest policemen’.
El País headlines the judges destroy the latest conspiracy theory over March 11th 2004. The paper says that court has ruled that to name ETA in relation to the Boric Acid was ‘mere speculation without foundation’. The four accused policemen have been found not guilty.
Público says its another blow to the conspiracy theorists.
The Spanish press has caught up with the headlines in the British press yesterday regarding the number of dishes – 19 – served at the G8 summit on world hunger. El Mundo shows George Bush perusing the menu.
El País shows the G8 bigwigs planting trees against climate change.
Público leads with the story and says hunger is no problem for the G-8. The paper prints a copy of the menu
El Mundo says that eight PSOE councillors in Vélez-Málaga are among those to have signed up to their manifesto for the defence of a common language in Spain. The total runs at 116,000.
ABC says that the employers organisation in Spain has supported the criticism from the tourist industry over the attacks on the Castellano language. The paper says that three thousand families have denounced the lack of Spanish in Basque classrooms to the European Parliament.
El País has an interview with the 19 year old gypsy girl, Dolores Ortiz, who was held hostage and raped at knifepoint for 45 days by her ex boyfriend. She has kept in inhuman conditions in an old transformer building.
El Mundo reports that Red Eléctrica and Endesa have been fined 21 million for the powercut which plunged Barcelona into Darkness in July last year.
As you might expect, La Vanguardia in Barcelona leads with the story, and also notes that another summit between the regional and central governments has been cancelled because of a lack of an agreement.
El Periodico says that fines imposed on the power companies are far short of what could have been possible.
El País says that three military chiefs are to be charged in the Yak42 case, for falsifying the identity of 30 of the 62 bodies resulting from the military transport plane crash.
El Mundo tells us that José Blanco has handed over total control of the PSOE Socialist party apparatus to Leire Pajín.
ABC has a photo of people queuing outside an unemployment office in Madrid. The paper says the times of long queues are back.
El Mundo takes note that the Government is to approve the destruction of its cluster bombs this month, and also ban their production.
ABC says that Minister for Industry, Miguel Sebastián, has ‘improvised’ a plan to reduce petrol consumption by 10%.
And finally,
El País notes that the 55 year old businessman, Juan Villalonga, ex president of Telefónica, will take control of the Valencia football club after reaching a deal with the shareholder Juan Soler.
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