Its official, curfew from Monday onwards

Day 125 of Spanish News OMG some people still do not get what I am doing! I translate what is in the Spanish newspapers exactly what the Spanish are reading and share it with you all! I do not make this up. The recap bit is my personal comments.

Breaking News of the curfew in Alicante today, Friday, October 23. Ximo Puig activates the process to decree the night confinement in the Valencian Community until December 9. The curfew in Alicante, as well as in the rest of the Valencian Community, leads us today, Friday, October 23, to know that the Consell wants the night confinement, from midnight to 6 in the morning, to start being valid at the beginning of the week and until December 9. For his part, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has made an institutional statement calling for "social discipline" and proposes the "collective challenge" of bending the curve of the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic. Likewise, he has affirmed that the Government is ready to take exceptional measures if the autonomies reach a situation of extreme risk.

CURFEW RULES The data places the Valencian Community in alert level 2. The capacity in bars is reduced to 50% and in terraces to 75%. The restrictions are back. The Valencian Community goes to the new alert level 2 to try to stop the advance of the coronavirus in the territory, according to the new plan drawn up by the Government and the autonomous communities after the alarming growth of cases detected in recent days. Although together with the Canary Islands, the Valencian Community is one of the two autonomies with the lowest accumulated incidence rate in the last two weeks due to new positive cases of coronavirus, the regional government has already announced that it will take measures during the next few hours to try to reach December in the best possible way. The highlight of the new measures will be applied to the catering sector together with the new restrictions to limit the holding of large bottle parties.

New measures for bars and restaurants. Opening to 50% of its interior capacity. Maximum occupancy of 6 people per table or group of tables. Guarantee the distance between tables of at least 2 meters between chairs of different tables. Prohibition of consumption at the bar in bars and restaurants. On the terraces of bars and restaurants, an outdoor capacity is maintained at 75% with separate and seated groups of clients, subject to the conditions of meetings with a maximum of 10 people. As in bars and restaurants, bingo halls and casinos may only open at 50% of their indoor capacity, with a maximum occupancy of 6 people per table or group of tables. Ban on bar consumption. Nightclubs and entertainment venues are closed at night.

Curfew exceptions. Go to work on the night shift. In the case of going to the hospital for a medical emergency. To care for dependent people.

GHOST TOWNS Curfew in Alicante, Valencia and Castellón: the hours when you will not be able to be out on the streets. The measure by the Valencian Community will be in force until December 9 to try to drastically stop the new cases of coronavirus. The Generalitat is going to ask that a curfew be applied throughout Spain to stop the advance of the coronavirus pandemic and applicable until December 9, and if there is no agreement it will request it for the Valencian Community.Objective of the curfew: the bottles and private parties. This was transmitted this Thursday by the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, to the social agents, the Catalan Ombudsmen and to the president of the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, before making the request official at the Interterritorial Health Council this afternoon .Curfew schedule in the Valencian Community. Puig's proposal is that the curfew in the Valencian Community begins at 00.00 and lasts until 6.00. This schedule would not affect the night shift workers since, as happened during the confinement decreed with the state of alarm, one of the exemptions to move freely was having to go to work. The duration of the proposed curfew in the autonomy will be, initially, until December 9, although in reality the continuity or not of this measure will be determined by the evolution of the pandemic. In other words, the measure could be extended in case the reduction in new cases of covid-19 is not as expected. The three parties that support the curfew throughout Spain. Likewise, have defended that "perhaps it is a measure that is not strictly necessary now, but history will show that it will be very useful", while they have indicated that "It will not have a high economic impact", and that it will "safeguard the Christmas campaign."

SANCHEZ SPEAKS Sánchez calls for "social discipline" and proposes the "collective challenge" of bending the curve. It affirms that the Government is ready to take measures if the autonomies reach extreme risk. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has made this Friday an institutional declaration to demand from citizens "social discipline", "team spirit" and "victory morals" so that between administrations and citizens the country can bend the curve, of so that the incidence drops from 348 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 25 cases in the country as a whole. Although there are several autonomies that have requested the Government to decree a state of alarm in order to apply a curfew, the Prime Minister has not referred to this matter, except to mention that it is one of the measures that could be applied according to the response plan approved on Thursday in the Interterritorial Council in the autonomies located in the extreme risk level. In said forum, it was agreed to postpone the implementation of a curfew pending a legal report on the instrument necessary to apply it, given the rejection of some autonomies, such as the Community of Madrid, for the state to be re-decreed alarm. Sánchez has indicated that Spain is ready to adopt any measure that is necessary to stop the pandemic, but always with a balance between health protection, mitigation of economic effects and respect for rights and freedoms.

AIR CORRIDORS The Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol join forces to achieve safe air corridors with Great Britain. The plan includes incorporating both regional governments, airports and airlines. The Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol, (both Provincial Councils), have agreed today to form an alliance with their respective airports to demand the same treatment from the Government as the Canary Islands in their negotiations in the United Kingdom with a view to opening safe air corridors with Alicante and Malaga. Both provinces consider that they are safe this winter in which, in addition, their British tourists are retired, an age profile that even makes the effect of the curfew announced by President Ximo Puig to contain the expansion of the covid is less . The president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mazón, held a telematic meeting this morning with his Malaga counterpart, Francisco Salado, and the director of the Alicante-Elche airport, Laura Navarro and the director of Málaga, Pedro Bendala, also participated. . Airports have lost 75% of their passengers this year. The councils want to include in the alliance the Generalitat and Junta de Andalucía, and, in principle, the airlines Ryanair, Easyjet Jet2.com, the ones that move the most tourists between the peninsula. The objective is for the corridors to become a reality in the first quarter of 2021 but it will be tried to advance the date, although everything will depend on the evolution of the pandemic. The end of the United Kingdom's quarantine for the Canary Islands has opened a slight hope for the Costa Blanca, but only slight as cities like Livepoool and Manchester, tourist providers for the province are confined. Still, the main British wholesaler Jetholidays does not plan to return until February.

TORREVIEJA HOMELESS DEAD BODY They find the lifeless body of a 28-year-old homeless man on the Paseo de Punta Margallo in Torrevieja. A pedestrian has raised the alarm early in the morning when he observed the body lying on a mattress next to one of the accesses to the rocky beach. The lifeless body of a homeless person was found this Thursday first thing in the morning on the Paseo de Punta Margallo in Torrevieja. The alert was made early in the morning by a pedestrian who observed that the 28-year-old was lying motionless on one of the access stairs to the rocky beach of this coastal area of Torrevieja. The health services, Civil Guard and Local Police have arrived at the scene and have only been able to verify that the man had died. In this area of the beach there are several mattresses and blankets that serve as a settlement for homeless people in the open. In fact, this morning next to the place where the lifeless man was found there was another person found in a tent, who has not left the tent at any time while the funeral services moved the body of the deceased young man. In this section of the promenade, next to the fountain, the benches and the trees, a group of homeless people who consume alcohol have been congregating for years and who spend the night on the beach itself or the surroundings of the farm of the houses of the curve of Palangre .

THE KING OF SPAIN SPEAKS OUT The King affirms that employers are a "very important part" of the solution to the crisis. Vice President Calviño explains to businessmen that the reactivation of the economy "has been maintained until now" King Felipe VI assured yesterday that businessmen and managers are "a very relevant part of the solution" to the crisis that we experienced during the closing of the XIX CEDE Directors' Congress under the slogan "The time of transformative leadership" held in Valencia. After pronouncing a few words in Valencian, the monarch commented that the country is experiencing "a transformation of the production model, of the way of working and of relating to each other" that requires "business leaders." "It is about laying the foundations for an economy up to the challenges of the future, which facilitate modernization so that social cohesion and those called by experts the industries of life are the result of the advancement of our society," he said. The king commented that the role of leadership that managers and entrepreneurs can develop "will allow Spain to be able to respond appropriately to make the necessary transformations effective and integrate them into the EU framework." In his speech, the monarch highlighted the need to "focus on sustainability as an axis of action and to bet decisively on digital transformation" that must serve to overcome the crisis. Felipe VI invited to avoid the temptation of protectionism and bet on the access of companies to "third markets under equal conditions." For her part, the Third Vice President and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, stressed that the covid, which places uncertainty as an essential element, has caused a crisis, but that the economy is in the reactivation phase that began in May and “that it remains until now ». During the third quarter, growth has remained strong, adding that the recovery will come in 2021.

ISIS TERRORIST CAPTURED IN ALTEA The Civil Guard detains a Daesh member in Altea. Investigators accuse him of carrying out terrorist activities through the internet to radicalize young people. Agents of the Information Service of the Civil Guard, with the support of several units of the body and Europol, arrested a 50-year-old Moroccan citizen last Wednesday in Altea for his alleged terrorist activities as a radicalizer and recruiter in favour of the terrorist group Daesh. as reported by the Guardia Civil. The joint action has made it possible to detect the activities that this person carried out through the internet to attract young people and radicalize them, according to the Civil Guard. The detainee, a citizen of Moroccan origin born in 1970 and irregularly staying in Spain, is a militant by his own vocation of the terrorist organization Daesh. He spent much of his time searching, editing, commenting, and disseminating propaganda material for the terrorist organization. The activity was carried out under the adoption of continuous security measures so as not to be detected by the security forces, identifying possible users of interest in social networks who were later redirected to private messaging applications in order to deepen the radicalization processes and provide them with digital content of the aforementioned terrorist organization.

IRISH DRUG DEALER POSSIBLE MURDERER Arrested in Torrevieja a well-known Irish narco with a possible connection to the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin. John Gilligan led a disjointed gang that shipped marijuana and hypnotic drugs by mail. A revolver of the same make and model that was used in the murder of the journalist in 1996 has been found buried in a garden. Agents of the National Police in collaboration with the Irish Police and the National Crime Agency –NCA- have dismantled a group of drug traffickers in Alicante and have intercepted four postal items loaded with four kilos of marijuana and 15,000 pills - hypnotic drugs-. Those arrested, led by the well-known Irish criminal John Gilligan, were part of a violent group of drug and arms traffickers and were specialized in sending illegal merchandise from Spain to the United Kingdom and Ireland through parcels. In addition to the package seized, the agents have found in the four registered homes another four kilos more of marijuana buds, already packed, and 11,000 more pills. A revolver has also been found buried in a garden, of the same make and model as the one used in the murder of a journalist that took place in Dublin in 1996 and whose possible relationship is being investigated. The film "Veronica Guerin", starring Cate Blanchett, tells the story of this journalist: The operation was launched last year when it was discovered that in the province of Alicante, specifically in Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa, an organization led by the well-known Irish criminal had settled. This person had been investigated in the past for various crimes and had even served 17 years in prison for importing large quantities of hashish. Alerted by this situation, the agents contacted other police forces and thanks to international police cooperation it was possible to identify the rest of the gang members, among whom Gilligan's son could be found. These arrests come a year after a case against Gilligan was dismissed, who was arrested for more than € 20,000 at Belfast International Airport with € 22,280 in cash as he was about to board a flight to Alicante. Four shipments intercepted. With the first inquiries they discovered that the group had specialized in the shipment of narcotic substances abroad through postal mail. Specifically, they tried to evade controls by hiding the drug inside the packages that were later sent to Ireland and the United Kingdom. In addition, and thanks to the intelligence work carried out in Spain in collaboration with Irish agents, it was learned that an arms delivery was going to be carried out in Ireland by members of the organization settled there. The operation finally allowed the seizure of three 9mm parabellum caliber pistols, loaded and ready for use. Thanks to the hard work of the investigators, four postal items were intercepted in Spain, in which four kilograms of marijuana and 15,000 pills were hidden. The investigation has culminated in the total dismantling of the criminal organization. The six investigated people have been arrested, including the leader of the group and four house searches have been carried out, where another four kilos more of packaged marijuana buds, 11,000 pills, two vehicles, ten mobile telephone devices, various documentation have been seized accounting and postal, useful for vacuum packaging and manipulation of the narcotic substance among other effects. Led by a well known Irish criminal. At the head of the organization was John Gilligan, 68, who was sentenced in 2001 to 28 years in prison - of which he served 17 after appealing the sentence - for importing large quantities of hashish to Ireland. Years later he was shot four times when he was at his brother's house, although he managed to recover. In addition, Irish investigators link his organization to the 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin outside Dublin, where she was shot by two individuals who were following her on a motorcycle. It so happens that in one of the searches carried out in Alicante as part of the investigation carried out now, a COLT PYTHON revolver has been found buried in a garden, a model that matches the one used to end the life of the aforementioned journalist. Spanish agents are working with the Irish police to determine if it is the same gun.

RECAP There is no FAKE NEWS HERE We have all become Cinderella’s. They will not take any excuse for being out after midnight! The new rules are the old rules! If you are going to work carry your papers. If your leaving work leave earlier. “This Town is becoming like a Ghost Town”. I is OUR JOB to go out and make daytime eating and drinking a thing to support the bars and restaurants. Sanchez is a prick! So cant visit your nan overnight but can have a holiday in the canaries! The guy in the tent made me lol, he must be in there going “this is not happening, this is not happening” King of Spain emphasises the need to get back to work while sanchez locks us up! Steve Mc Donald in Corri street is a member of ISIS next time you see his taxi read the phone number. Do you really know who your neighbours are? The film Veronica Guerin was amazing! Have a nice day! Im going shooting now to get some practice