Spanish Congress seeks to restrict minors’ access to social media, police investigate deaths of two teenagers in southern Spain and more news on December 1st.
Spanish Congress seeks to restrict minors’ access to social media
MPs in Spain have submitted amendments to the law on minors in digital environments, which is now entering its final stage of processing in Congress.
Some of the proposals that parliamentary groups have put forward for the law include a time slot during which minors are prohibited from accessing social media, private profiles by default, requiring the consent of teenagers over 12 to post photos of themselves, and prohibiting social media use by minors of a certain age.
The bill’s approval will depend on how negotiations between the parties progress, especially with Catalan right-wing separatist party Junts, which has already declared its complete break with Sánchez’s government, and whose votes (unless the PP votes in favour) will be key to achieving the absolute majority that the law requires due to its organic nature.
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Spanish police investigate deaths of two teenagers in Jaén
Spanish police are investigating the deaths of two teenage girls, aged 15 and 16, in Jaén’s Parque de la Concordia. The bodies were found in the early hours of Saturday morning, shortly after 1:30a.m, according to El Diario de Jaén.
The causes of death are unknown and an investigation has been launched to clarify what happened. Suicide has not been ruled out, reports in the Spanish press note.
Police sources have indicated that an initial visual inspection showed no signs of external violence and that the involvement of third parties appears to have been ruled out.
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Spain’s La Liga signs new €6 billion TV rights deal
Television channels DAZN and Movistar Plus+ have signed a new five-year contract worth €6.135 billion ($7.116 bn) to show live Spanish top flight football, La Liga’s president has announced.
The new contract begins with the 2027/28 season and represents a nine percent increase on the previous deal, which ends in 2027, La Liga chief Javier Tebas wrote on X.
“Telefonica and DAZN have renewed (their deals) for five matches (out of 10) each round, thus consolidating their strategic partnerships,” said Tebas.
Movistar Plus+ is owned by multinational telecommunications giant Telefonica. The deal amounts to an increase from the current €1.125 billion a season to €1.227 billion a season, Tebas revealed. That eclipses the German Bundesliga deal announced in December worth €1.121 billion a season for the four campaigns from 2025/26.
However, it is still some way short of the English Premier League deal announced in 2023 and worth £6.7 billion ($8.87 bn) for the four seasons beginning in 2025/26.That amounts to £1.675 billion a season, or €1.91 billion.
Spain orders psychiatric internment for 2023 church machete attacker
Spain’s top criminal court said Friday it had ordered psychiatric internment for a Moroccan man who murdered a church official in a 2023 machete attack that horrified the country.
Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court dismissed terrorism charges for the attacks at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras on January 25, 2023.
But it said in a statement that Yassin Kanjaa would spend up to 30 years in a penitentiary psychiatric establishment.
Prosecutors had sought 50 years in jail for Kanjaa on terrorism charges for killing a sacristan with machete blows to the head and neck at one church, and wounding a priest during mass at another.
They argued he had “undergone a process of radicalisation, taking on board the most stringent Islamic theories which uphold its incompatibility with the principles and values of other religions and the need to act to eliminate them”.
The court said that, although the defendant had committed murder and attempted murder, expert reports showed the severity of his psychological disorders.
With additional reporting by Alex Dunham and Conor Faulkner.