Posted In: Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla lies on the arena after being gored in the face by a bull during a bullfight in the northeastern city of Zaragoza
In this photo taken Oct. 7, 2011, Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla lies on the arena after being gored in the face by a bull during a bullfight in the northeastern city of Zaragoza, Spain. (AP) A Spanish bullfighter is likely to suffer facial paralysis and lose the sight in one eye after a terrifying goring, the hospital treating him said Saturday. Television images showed the moment when the bull's left horn ripped into Juan Jose Padilla's lower jaw to emerge beside his protruding eyeball as spectators in the northeastern city of Zaragoza screamed in horror. Padilla is in a stable condition and recovering from a five-hour operation to repair his face, the statement from the Miguel Servet Hospital said. It said Padilla, 39, suffered eye, bone, muscle and skin damage when the bull pinned him to the ground and gored him. Surgeons had not been able to repair a severed facial nerve.
Posted In: Spain may exhume Franco
Spain may exhume the remains of dictator Francisco Franco from his huge mausoleum near Madrid and move them to a cemetery, the daily Periodico de Catalunya reported on Monday. The proposal is being considered by a commission of experts which the government has tasked with proposing how to deal with the Valley of the Fallen, Franco's monumental burial place in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. The mausoleum is seen as being contrary to the 2007 Law of Historic Memory on the 1939-75 Franco era. Franco took power following the 1936-39 civil war in which his troops defeated those of the leftist republican government. The law stipulated recognition of the wrongs suffered by Franco's victims, including measures such as removing Francoist monuments and assistance to associations reopening mass graves. One of the last issues to be dealt with is the Valley of the Fallen, which was built by republican prisoners. The mausoleum holds the remains of more than 30 000 people, including those of hundreds of republicans, whose bones were brought there to increase the number of people buried at the site. The commission comprising historians and legal experts is mulling ways to turn the mausoleum into “a monument of reconciliation.” The commission is now considering the possibility of removing Franco's remains from the basilica of the Valley of the Fallen and transferring them to El Pardo cemetery in Madrid, Periodico de Catalunya reported. This might be accepted by the Franco family, because he would then lie next to his wife Carmen Polo, according to the report. The basilica also houses the remains of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Franco's Falangist party. They would not be removed from the Valley of the Fallen, because he was executed by the republicans during the war and is therefore considered a war victim.
Posted In: NEW dad died after being beaten up during a holiday in Spain.
chris lindsay A NEW dad died after being beaten up during a holiday in Spain. Chris Lindsay was found unconscious in the street following a night out with work pals. He died five days later - on his girlfriend's 30th birthday. Chris's dad Harry, 63, said: "It's hard to take. We keep thinking he is going to walk back through the door at any minute." Chris's family raced to the Costa del Sol after doctors rang to say he was fighting for his life. They are now trying to piece together what happened on the night he was attacked. Chris, 34, who leaves a three-month-old son Jude, had flown to Spain with colleagues from The Marketing Company, based in Glasgow's Hope Street. A group of around 10 of them were staying at a villa in Calahonda, between Marbella and Fuengirola. On the night he was attacked, marketing officer Chris, of Edinburgh, and his pals had been out for a meal. Most of them went to bed later but Chris and a senior colleague decided to keep the party going and went back out. The pair got separated in a bar and Chris was found unconscious in the early hours of the morning. It is not known how he sustained his injuries or how he got to hospital. But relatives who rushed to his bedside in Carlos Haya hospital in Malaga say it was obvious he had been attacked. His brother Tony, 38, of Edinburgh, said: "We don't know who found him but he had been unconscious in the street on the Sunday morning and his passport was missing. "When we saw him, his face was OK but there was bad bruising down his right-hand side, and cuts on his knees and elbows. "We have no idea if he was jumped or if it was a one-on-one, but he had certainly been in a fight." Chris was taken to hospital in Marbella before being transferred to Malaga. He died on Friday after suffering liver and kidney failure. His family and his girlfriend Vikky Soloman hope a postmortem examination will shed more light on what happened. Tony added: "Something has happened after he went back out. But all we can say for sure is that he has ended up dead." Chris's dad Harry, 63, a care worker of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, said: "We're going about in a trance at the moment. Chris was a hard worker and a good lad." Tony added: "I am absolutely devastated. "Chris was absolutely thrilled to have become a dad again. "There are still too many question marks about what happened." Police on the Costa del Sol are investigating. Chris's body will stay in Spain until officers decide whether to launch a criminal inquiry. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Spain. We are providing consular assistance to the family."
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