Daniel Verdú

The Interior Minister will meet with figures from the sector to improve security after the latest daylight kidnapping attempt in Paris

The group of transgender women who met the late pontiff on a number of occasions mourn his loss and hope that the Church will continue to welcome them as he did

The prelate and deputy secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the highest authority in the pursuit of pedophiles within the Church, believes that the next pope will not be able to ignore victims’ cry for justice

For a long time, a sector of the Church directed and financed from the US attempted to depose the Vatican leader in order to impose its own identity-based ideology

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine pontiff who initiated a historic process of reforms in the Church in 2013, also unleashed an unprecedented war with the ultraconservative sector of the Catholic world

Well known for his role as the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, the veteran politician urges Europe not to panic and to stand firm against threats from a US president who is ‘surrounded by billionaires and speculators’

The 29-year-old president of the RN has no links to the party’s dark past or to the Le Pen surname other than being Marine’s protégé

The leader of the National Rally, banned for running from office for five years for embezzlement of EU funds, denounces a ‘political decision’

A European diplomatic communication indicates that London and Paris are pushing for a military deployment to test their strength as the US progressively steps back

Joël Le Scouarnec described the 299 rapes or sexual assaults he committed over 24 years in detail and stored his notes away as if they were patient files. Given what appears to be a culture of silence in the family around his abuse, the horror of his accounts provides the indisputable evidence to put him behind bars for a very long time

The discomfort shown by Giorgia Meloni, who made explicit her closeness to the US, reflects the difficulty of the community partners in finding a common strategy

EL PAÍS spoke with the daughter of the man who drugged his wife for years and handed her over to dozens of men to be raped. In the book ‘I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again’ she describes the horror of the discovery. And, in this interview, she regrets that the trial did not allow her to find out if she was also one of his victims

For some, a secular state is the foundation of an open society, which allows both faith and blasphemy. For others, secularism is an excuse to justify Islamophobia. The Islamist attacks of 2015 left a wound in French society that has opened up a debate on the idea of laïcité

Lawyer Beatrice Zavarro defended the man at the center of a case that has shaken France and beyond, despite the ensuing isolation: ‘I did not hesitate for a second’

The leader of France’s far-right National Rally, facing a court sentence that could ban her from seeking public office, warns in an interview with EL PAÍS that she will seek a no-confidence vote against the government again if the newly appointed prime minister ignores her party’s demands

The head of La France Insoumise says they will keep using no-confidence votes against the French president, whom he accuses of ignoring the result of the election and of sinking the country into crisis

The veteran politician overestimated his own ability to reach deals in a devilishly complicated political situation. Both the left and the far right were on a mission to hunt him down in order to punish President Macron

In Marseille, the epicenter of drug trafficking gangs, the Ministers of Justice and Interior presented a project to prevent the ‘Mexicanization’ of the country, which includes the appointment of a liaison magistrate in Bogotá

Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, Juan Roig, Giorgio Armani and Bernard Arnault are facing one of the most critical moments for any family business: generational change. And in some cases, it is far from clear who will be their successor

The French thinker points out that confinement has given rise to a new generation of lazy people who are afraid to leave home and do not want to expose themselves to life

The man who drugged his wife for years so that dozens of men could rape her lived in a quiet village in Provence, a perfectly ordinary setting for scenes of horror. A conviction is a foregone conclusion, but the trial will serve as a laboratory for reflection in France

The man who spent a decade drugging his wife and offering her to dozens of men so he could watch them rape her has been described by psychologists as ‘a man with two faces’

A French rape victim who was drugged by her husband for 10 years and raped by 51 men decided that the trial should be public, turning it into an iconic fight against sexual assault and chemical submission

The movement on campuses is currently very limited in Europe, where authorities are torn between showing firmness and allowing dialogue

The Sicilian ‘instrument of God’ gathers hundreds of devoted Catholics at the top of a hill in Rome every third day of the month. She assures the public that her statue of the Virgin Mary cries blood and can multiply pizzas and gnocchi. The Church has prohibited her from hosting the monthly ceremony

A man trusted by the Pope, who is head of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, calls for a ceasefire in order to lay the foundation for reconciliation