Overview

• The Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea began hearings on July 13 to assess whether Spain’s 2024 Catalan amnesty law conflicts with EU anti-fraud and anti-terrorism directives, with a decision due by year-end.
• In Torre Pacheco, nine people have been detained and several injured after far-right groups incited xenophobic unrest, and two facilitators were arrested for aiding the assailant in the July 9 attack on a 68-year-old resident.
• The proscribed Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla resurfaced under a new name on the 23rd anniversary of the Perejil Island incident, escalating tensions over Spain’s North African enclaves without an official Rabat response.
• Former Tabasco security chief Hernán Bermúdez Requena remains at large under an international warrant issued in February over alleged cartel ties, prompting Interpol to pursue leads across Panama, Spain and Brazil.
• In Ciudad del Milagro, Salta, two suspects have been formally charged with homicide during a robbery and placed in preventive detention as provincial investigators continue their forensic and testimonial inquiries.