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Alicante man given a two-year suspended sentence for abusing his 7-month-old baby

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison by an Alicante court for beating and injuring his seven-month-old child. However, the accused, who was placed in preventive detention following his arrest in 2021, will not be sent to prison because the sentence suspends its execution provided he refrains from committing any crimes for the next two years.

The defendant, who was represented by attorneys Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella and Alicia Grau Córdoba, was found guilty of a crime of injury after first being probed for a homicide attempt.

After being admitted with a perforated intestine, the 4-year-old baby spent 18 days in the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) of Alicante General Hospital, where his survival was questioned. Thankfully, he recovered from his injuries. After his parents, who were 22 at the time, were arrested, the Generalitat took care of the kid. Although the mother’s complaint was ultimately dismissed, the mother was also the subject of a court investigation.

Following a plea agreement struck during the trial between the prosecution and defence, which had sought a five-year prison sentence for serious injuries, Criminal Court No. 10 of Alicante imposed the punishment.

Given that he paid 4,477 euros in civil liability claims to compensate the minor prior to the trial, the verdict finds the minor’s father guilty of assault with the aggravating circumstances of treachery and kinship and the mitigating circumstances of confession and reparation of damages. The 6,000 euros the offender paid as bail to be freed from prison was used to pay the reparation.

The offender is sentenced to two years in prison, three years of special disqualification from exercising parental control over his young son, and a three-year prohibition from approaching his son within 300 meters or communicating with him in any way. He would only have three months remaining in the sentence’s three-year term, though, because his parental power has been revoked since the incidents. After serving this time, he may attempt to reclaim parental power by starting a new administrative procedure.

He reported a household mishap

At the hearing, the defendant entered a guilty plea and acknowledged the facts the prosecutor’s office had brought against him. Up until this point, the defendant had maintained that his kid had been involved in a domestic mishap at home in Alicante and had hit himself with a toy after falling off a sofa.

The sentence’s declared proven facts took place in Alicante on the afternoon of May 27, 2021. At the house where he lived with his girlfriend and the minor’s mother, the accused was by himself caring for his seven-month-old baby. He was with the youngster in the marriage room at an unspecified time that day when he “hit him several times with such force that the minor had to undergo emergency surgery for a jejunal perforation and mesointestinal haematoma.” The kid spent 18 days in the paediatric intensive care unit at Doctor Balmis General Hospital in Alicante and four days in the hospital ward during his 22-day recovery from the intestinal perforation.

The child was left with a “slight scar from the central abdominal laparotomy” as a cosmetic harm, but the verdict claims that he does not have “anatomical functional sequelae” as a result of these injuries.

After the hospital was informed that a newborn had been admitted with injuries incompatible with the domestic accident his parents had recounted, the police arrested the parents. When the mother got home and started throwing up, the boy was brought to the hospital when he was alone himself with his father.

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A two car collision in Almoradí left three hurt

At 2:10 p.m. on Thursday 27th March, three men, ages 36, 54, and 67, were hurt in a collision involving two vehicles on the AP7 close to Almoradí.

A SAMU unit and two Basic Life Support units have been sent to the location.

The 67-year-old and 35-year-old males, who each had many injuries and bruises, were taken to the Vega Baja Hospital in Orihuela, while the 54-year-old man, who had multiple injuries, was sent to the General Hospital of Elche.

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Elche is completing the new pavilion in the vicinity of L’Aljub

The new sports pavilion in the L’Aljub neighbourhood is now being built by the municipality of Elche. Along with Francisco Soler, the Deputy Mayor, José Antonio Román, the councillor for sports; and municipal experts, Elche Mayor Pablo Ruz visited the construction site of the new inclusive sports pavilion in the L’Aljub neighbourhood yesterday, Thursday 27th March.

Ruz stated that the project will be finished over the summer, in July or August, assuming all goes as planned, and that it represents an investment of €12.6 million. “Work on this area, which will be able to accommodate important athletic events, training sessions, and cultural gatherings, is moving along nicely. The mayor underlined that the area’s architectural significance required this kind of infrastructure.

“Delays in the works during previous legislative periods have led to the loss of the subsidy for this project, which has now been financed with municipal funds,” the governing team said of the project, which was first included in the Edusi European Funds.

The pavilion can accommodate 3,000 people and has a built-up area of more than 6,600 square meters. There will be 1,500 permanent seats in total, with the remaining seats being moveable and detachable. In addition to a centre court for all sports, the sports complex will feature a service ring with locker rooms, a gym, and weight rooms that are open to everyone.

“We are in the process of putting out to tender the draughting of the reorganisation and traffic access project for this entire area, which is essential for regulating vehicle flow,” Pablo Ruz said in reference to parking and access. Additionally, he suggested making a portion of the municipal parking lot of the L’Aljub Shopping Centre accessible to patrons of this pavilion.

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The Ukrainian House will open “soon” in Torrevieja

Soon, the Ukrainian House in Spain will open in a government-donated property in Torrevieja, Alicante. It will help and counsel individuals who want to return when safety conditions allow, as well as preserve connections between those who have been displaced by the war and their homeland.

After touring the facilities provided by the government in the Care, Reception and Referral Centre building, one of four in Spain along with Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity Oleksiy Chernyshov made this statement yesterday, Thursday 27th March, in Torrevieja. Elma Saiz, the Minister of Migration, Social Security and Inclusion, and Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of the city, also shared this viewpoint.

In Torrevieja, a city with over 10,000 registered residents and one of the major hubs of the diaspora in Spain, the Deputy Prime Minister’s presence—bolstered by a robust Guardia Civil presence—was followed by a meeting with leaders of compatriot associations.

Chernyshov clarified that the Ukrainian House will open “very soon” and is anticipated to coincide with the inauguration of the Ukrainian Houses in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and, most likely, Italy, despite the fact that no opening dates have been set.

Within the Ukrainian ‘Unity Hub Space’ in the EU is the Ukrainian House

The ambitious ‘Unity Hub Space’ initiative, which includes all of these Ukrainian Houses throughout European nations, aims to offer a wide range of services to the Old Continent, including banking, employment, education, healthcare, business assistance, and consular services.

In order to help citizens who had to flee the war feel “connected” to their homeland, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister underlined the significance of this centre. It also facilitated, under safe conditions, return procedures, such as work permits, the location of schools for minors, and various documents.

Chernyshov said his nation is grateful to Spain for sheltering the people who have been displaced by Russian aggression over the last three years and for making it possible for this Ukrainian House to open.

“A place of encounter and hope,” Minister Saiz said

The Ukrainian House was established as “a space of hope and meeting” to serve Ukrainians, of whom there are thought to be over 230,000 in Spain under temporary protection, according to Elma Saiz, Minister of Migration, Social Security, and Immigration.

According to the data he presented, there are approximately 30,000 youngsters enrolled in the national education system, and he said that over 40,000 Ukrainians have gone through the foster care institutions that the central government has put in place.

About half of the 30,000 diaspora members with temporary protection who are registered with Spanish Social Security are women, demonstrating the “example of integration and inclusion” that has occurred.

Saiz added that the Ukrainian House’s first floor is entirely open-plan, and that the transfer to Ukraine entails that Ukraine will be in charge of assigning particular personnel and overseeing the activities offered.