« Stop mafia » : des dizaines de milliers de manifestants à Madrid exigent le départ du premier ministre

LE FIGARO : Pedro Sánchez, arrivé au pouvoir en 2018 après avoir utilisé une motion de censure pour faire tomber le gouvernement du PP englué dans des affaires de corruption, a promis d’y rester malgré la multiplication des accusations de malversations visant son entourage.

Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont défilé dans les rues de Madrid samedi pour exiger la démission du premier ministre socialiste Pedro Sánchez, accusé de corruption. Les manifestants (120.000 selon les organisateurs, 40.000 selon les autorités locales) brandissaient des drapeaux espagnols rouges et jaunes, massés derrière une grande banderole : « La corruption a un prix. Plus d'impunité. Démission et élections maintenant. »

Organisée par « Sociedad Civil Española », fédérant plus de 150 associations civiques, elle était soutenue par le Parti populaire (PP) conservateur traditionnel et le parti d'extrême droite Vox, pour se terminer sur la Plaza Moncloa, près de la résidence officielle du premier ministre. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | samedi 23 mai 2026

What’s behind the Police Targeting of Gay Men in Madrid? | The Take

Feb 18, 2025 | In Madrid, gay men say targeted police raids and humiliating strip searches are on the rise, defying Spain’s image as a leader in LGBTQ rights. Authorities claim it is part of a drug crackdown, but activists insist deep-rooted homophobia is driving the arrests. What is behind these allegations, and what does it mean for queer communities across Europe?

In this episode:

Christo Casas, Journalist and Anthropologist

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And that’s the Take. This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé and Chloe K. Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich, Hanah Shokeir and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.


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Spain: Gang Violence on the Rise | Focus on Europe

Oct 26, 2022 | Violent youth gangs are a major problem in Spain's capital. Two former members talk about how they managed to get out.

Luxembourg PM’s Same-sex Husband Seated Next to Viktor Orbán at Summit

THE GUARDIAN: Hungarian leader was criticised by Xavier Bettel in 2021 for introducing homophobic law

Nato leaders’ spouses including Gauthier Destenay (centre), husband of Luxembourg’s PM, in Madrid. Photograph: Ballesteros/EPA
The dozens of invitees were carefully seated along the lengthy table, flanked by columns fashioned out of Bagnères marble and surrounded by paintings from Spain’s Francisco de Goya.

As photos of the Nato dinner at Spain’s royal palace filtered out, many were swift to spot what one Spanish news site described as the image of the summit: the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, seated next to Gauthier Destenay, the first same-sex spouse of a leader of an EU member state.

Amid speculation as to whether the seating arrangement was intentional – perhaps a nod to this month’s Pride celebrations – or whether it was simply the mysterious hand of protocol working its magic, Spain’s royal palace did not respond to a request for comment.

The eye-catching seating arrangement came one year after Destenay’s husband, Luxembourg’s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, blasted Orbán over a Hungarian law banning any portrayal of LGBT people in materials meant for children.

“To be nationally blamed, to be considered as not normal, to be considered a danger for young people – it’s not realising that being gay is not a choice,” said Bettel, who in 2015 became the first EU leader to marry someone of the same sex.

“But being intolerant is a choice,” Bettel continued. » | Ashifa Kassam in Madrid | Thursday, June 30, 2022

Cartier Beautés du Monde: The Exhibition

Jun 30, 2022 From 13th June 2022 in Madrid, Cartier revealed the Beautés du Monde High Jewelry collection - in a setting that lives up to its shining light: the brutalist Embassy design by two architects, English WS Bryant and Madrid native Luis Blanco-Soler. Cartier entrusted the scenography of the event to the Madrid artist and design Jaime Hayon. In this succession built around a well of light, color is omnipresent, the design pure, which rounded arches that break up the space. A singular experience that invites exploration, and the discovery of the Beautés du Monde collection.

Spain: Anti-Covid Restrictions Rally Descends into Chaos in Madrid

In Spain, protesters have clashed with police in the capital city of Madrid, vandalizing ATMs, as well as breaking and burning trash cans in the city center.

Madrid Stuck in the Past with Idea of Unity above All Else – Catalan MEP

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Barcelona, protesting the apparent desire of the Catalan government to create an independent state. Days before, hundreds of thousands had marched in support of the push for secession. An unrelenting Madrid, unwilling to let any of this happen, is ready to prevent Catalonia from becoming independent. Will it come to the use of military force? Is the drive for independence strong enough to overcome all the obstacles? We ask Josep-Maria Terricabras, member of the European Parliament for the Republican Left party of Catalonia.

Can Spain Keep It Together? Madrid Ponders Direct Rule in Catalonia

Defying Madrid: Catalonia's Independence Referendum

Spain: "Spaniards Yes, Refugees No" - Hundreds of Far-right Protesters Hit Madrid

Around 600 far-right protesters marched through Madrid on Saturday, demanding "social aid" for Spaniards and holding banners and placards reading "Spaniards Welcome," a play on the "Refugees Welcome" movement currently organising across Europe.

État islamique : Rabat et Madrid démantèlent un réseau de recruteurs

LE POINT: Quatorze personnes ont été interpellées au Maroc et en Espagne, soupçonnées de recuter et d'envoyer des combattants en Syrie et en Irak.

Quatorze personnes ont été interpellées au Maroc et en Espagne lors d'une "opération antiterroriste conjointe" des deux pays, visant à démanteler un réseau de recrutement pour le groupe État islamique (EI, Daesh en arabe), ont annoncé les ministères de l'Intérieur des deux pays. Des agents des services de renseignement - du Commissariat général d'information de la police espagnole et de la Direction générale de la surveillance du territoire marocaine - "ont démantelé une cellule terroriste composée de 14 personnes", a expliqué mardi le ministère espagnol de l'Intérieur. » | Source AFP | mardi 25 août 2015

Spain's Felipe VI, Righteous Son, Inherits a Shaken Monarchy

König Felipe VI. will seinem Land dienen

KRONEN ZEITUNG: Generations-wechsel in der spanischen Monarchie: König Felipe VI. ist als neues Staatsoberhaupt des Landes vereidigt worden. Der 46- jährige Monarch schwor am Donnerstag, die in der Verfassung festgelegten Aufgaben zu erfüllen. Er glaube an diese "große Nation", er liebe sie, "sie liegt mir am Herzen", sagte Felipe anschließend bei seiner Antrittsrede im Parlament in Madrid.

Felipe trat als jüngster König Europas die Nachfolge seines Vaters Juan Carlos an, der am Vortag nach fast vier Jahrzehnten auf dem Thron abgedankt hatte. "Ich werde immer das Allgemeininteresse im Auge haben", betonte Felipe in seiner Rede. Er werde loyal zur Verfassung stehen und bereit sein, zuzuhören, zu verstehen und Ratschläge zu geben, sagte der Monarch am Donnerstag. Als "Bürgerkönig" möchte er außerdem das angekratzte Image der spanischen Monarchie wieder aufbessern. » | AG/red | Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2014

Bedbug Epidemic Spreads Across Spain

Reports of bedbug infestations in Spain have risen by 70 per cent
over the past five years

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Huge rise in the number of infestations of parasitic insects reported across Spain

Housing authorities in Madrid are complaining of “a plague of bedbugs” and called for extra measures to tackle the troublesome parasites.

According to pest control experts, the reports of bedbug infestations across Spain have risen by 70 per cent within five years and is now bordering on an “epidemic”.

A residents’ association in the Lavapies district of central Madrid is demanding city authorities provide temporary housing for those affected while their homes are fumigated.

Residents are blaming the proliferation of the insects, which bury themselves deep inside mattresses, on the rise in the number of buildings being squatted in the neighbourhood.

“We never had bedbugs until the squatters moved in,” one neighbour told Spain’s daily El Mundo newspaper. » | Fiona Govan, Madrid | Friday, May 30, 2014

Buskers, Pimps and Plant-lovers Beware: This Is Madrid's Biggest Crackdown Since General Franco

THE INDEPENDENT: New anti-social behaviour laws ban everything from carelessly perched pot plants to carpet-beating in public

In the biggest crackdown on anti-social behaviour in decades, the city of Madrid is to impose new restrictions and fines on everything from soliciting the services of a prostitute to juggling, dog-feeding and carpet-beating in public.

All manner of human behaviour is being targeted under the new laws, including being careless with pot plants on a balcony or for using a park bench for – perish the thought – “something other than sitting”.

The draft series of regulations, currently being reviewed in all-party discussions, represent the biggest single series of potential changes to the Spanish capital’s civic legislation since the ‘Policing and Good Government law’ of 1948. In equally wide-ranging format, that 1948 law banned everything in Madrid from blasphemy (intriguingly defined in the legislation as ‘particularly forbidden’) to woodchopping in public and keeping poultry. » | Alasdair Fotheringham | Madrid | Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Espagne : des milliers de manifestants demandent une république
LE POINT: Selon un récent sondage, 53 % des Espagnols désapprouvent la façon dont le roi Juan Carlos exerce ses fonctions.


Plus de 8 000 manifestants ont défilé dimanche dans le centre de Madrid pour dénoncer une monarchie à l'image ternie par plus d'un an de scandales dans un pays en crise et réclamer l'avènement d'une IIIe République en Espagne. Agitant des milliers de drapeaux républicains rouge, or et violet, les manifestants, la plupart des républicains convaincus de longue date, criaient "L'Espagne, demain, sera républicaine" et "Le Bourbon, au travail", en direction du roi d'Espagne Juan Carlos.

Comme tous les ans, ils avaient été convoqués, sous le slogan "À bas le régime monarchique, pour la III République", pour marquer la date anniversaire de la IIe République, proclamée le 14 avril 1931 et suivie par près de 40 ans de dictature franquiste après la guerre civile (1936-1939). "Personne n'a élu le roi", lançait Verónica Ruiz, militante du parti écolo-communiste Izquierda Unida (IU). "Nous voulons un référendum : ça serait la manière juste et démocratique de savoir ce que veut le peuple." » | Source AFP | dimanche 14 avril 2013

Spain Anti-austerity Protests: 'There Is a Great Deal of Anger on the Streets'
Fiona Govan, the Telegraph's correspondent in Madrid reports on the escalating tension as Spanish workers join strikes to protest against spending cuts and tax hikes that trade unions say have brought misery and deepened the country's economic crisis.

Read the article here | Contains video from Reuters | Wednesday, November 14, 2012

En Espagne et en Italie, des manifestations dégénèrent
LE FIGARO: EN IMAGES- À Paris, Lisbonne, Bruxelles ou encore Athènes, la mobilisation anti-austérité est importante. Forces de l'ordre et manifestants s'affrontent violemment à Madrid, Turin et Milan.

» | Par Sébastien Thévenet | mercredi 14 novembre 2012

Hundreds Clash with Riot Police in Madrid

Read the article here | Saturday, July 14, 2012

Spain Protesters Challenge Government Ban
Spain's government have ruled that mass protests are illegal on the eve of elections. But many people remain on the streets of a number of cities refusing to leave. Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports.