Free Republic

The Torrevieja Carnival in Alicante (Spain) was embroiled in heated controversy after the parade, which provoked strong criticism and reactions on social networks. The proposal of the Osadía troupe, made up of a group of participants in provocative costumes, The focus was on the criticism of various political and social ideologies, particularly in the context of feminism and LGBT+ groups. The participants, minors, wore costumes that simulated barely covered bodies, with open colored jackets, ties, nipple shields, lingerie, fishnet stockings and heels. In addition, they carried flags on their backs with allusions to right-wing and left-wing parties. and political opinions...

A 17-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly daubing 666 on a holy reliquary and inverting seven crucifixes inside a church in Alicante. A priest discovered the vandalism on Sunday morning at the Santa Faz Church and monastery in Alicante, which is home to a relic that, according to tradition, is a veil with which Veronica wiped the bleeding face of Jesus. The relic is reputed to have been transferred from the Vatican to the Alicante church in the 15th century, which became a place of pilgrimage ever since. The teenager, who has not been named, was arrested on Monday,...

01 September 2010 "MOM, I'M IN JAIL." SNIPPET: "The administrator of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (Arabic), Faical Errai, has been arrested in Spain."

ARIS, May 29 — Italian and German investigators have disclosed fresh information suggesting that hints of an attack involving aircraft and the United States were more widespread among European law enforcement agencies before Sept. 11 than previously suspected.The disclosures come after weeks in which the Bush administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which announced a shake-up today, have come under sharp criticism that they did not pay sufficient heed to signs of Al Qaeda plots in the United States that may have alerted them to the Sept. 11 attacks.A Central Intelligence Agency spokesman said today that before Sept....