Overview
- Argentina’s fiscal general Eduardo Villalba appealed the May dismissal of truck driver Héctor Romero in the María Cash disappearance, seeking to annul the ruling and continue the probe under a different federal court in Salta based on witness accounts, phone interceptions and alleged inconsistencies.
- A 30-year-old motorcyclist, Guillermo Sebastián Pérez, died after a collision with a Jeep driven by a 17-year-old in La Banda; by order of on‑duty prosecutor Celia Mussi, the teenager was apprehended and both vehicles were seized pending forensic tests.
- Madrid’s municipal funerary services recorded 34 incidents in the past year, 68% tied to theft of ornaments, as a PSOE-M councillor proposed Municipal Police drones and an updated inventory of tomb adornments to detect missing items more quickly.
- City officials expanded holiday security at cemeteries with 1,650 Municipal Police deployed, more than 900 assigned to the main burial grounds and drones monitoring access and flows, alongside extended opening hours and extra buses for visitors.
- Real Madrid beat Valencia 4–0 in LaLiga with two goals from Kylian Mbappé, including a penalty, and another from Jude Bellingham in a dominant first half, strengthening the league leaders’ position at the Santiago Bernabéu.