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A man in the Andalusian province Granada is requesting to voluntarily go to prison because he is afraid of being on his own revealed on his social media accounts that he wants to go to Albolote prison despite not committing any criminal offence The Motril resident is suffering from cancer and heart problems and said he is lonely and has been abandoned by his family "I volunteer to go to prison," he said from the living room of his house while holding a sign that relayed the same message "I am 60 years old and have suffered from heart problems for 15 years sometimes I would go into cardiac arrest and I would be practically dead She called the emergency services and managed to revive me before they arrived Now she is no longer here and I'm afraid it will happen to me alone Nobody can help me," Justo Márquez told the local Granada newspaper Justo got married in 1999 to "the shop assistant of a grocery store he ran" After nearly 24 years of love and five children Last June he had no choice but to move out of his family home I try not to lose contact with my children I have recently become a grandfather and my daughter has not introduced me to my grandson I have suffered from depression and anxiety That's why prison doesn't seem such a bad fate for me," he said He cannot go behind bars without committing a crime I just want to live with someone and be able to talk Rather than being on the street without a family and isolated I've already been to social services and they haven't helped me," he said Justo spends his days living on a small pension in his house in Motril He is currently on sick leave due to his cancer and cardiovascular complications but I didn't want to have surgery because my brother got very worn out and died shortly afterwards when he had it," Justo added He plans to rally in October in front of the doors of the Motril courthouse to make his case known "Through TikTok I am receiving a lot of support The messages cheer me up and encourage me to continue," he said This is not the first time that Justo Márquez has appeared in the media he went on pilgrimage to the villages of the Costa Tropical the Alpujarra and even outside Andalucía asking for justice for various causes But it was how he did it that sparked headlines carrying a large wooden cross on his back along the way and a lawsuit against the use of water from a farmhouse were some of his crusades Comentar es una ventaja exclusiva para registrados AcademyResounding triumphs for UDA U16 'A' and UDA U14 'A' The Under-19s youth players achieved two draws in injury time of their respective matches Group 'A' in Huelva and Group 'B' at home against current pacesetters Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas died in Granada at the age of 52 A graduate of the Sevilla School of Architecture Jiménez Torrecillas began his career in 1987 with Juan Domingo Santos and together they built works of great aesthetic refinement that were a foretaste of what would be the first of important interventions on historical contexts This period was when he started his acclaimed explorations with materials and light effects which he implemented in splendid works that showed an at once attentive and unbiased reading of historical preexistences as in Carlos V’s palace within the Umayyad wall in Granada or the granary and Homage Tower in Huéscar When the man sometimes billed as Spain's most dangerous leftwing politician led his utopian army of marchers through the baking southern heat into the small town of Albolote the biggest fuss was among those jostling for photographs beside the charismatic revolutionary sweaty marchers simply dropped their banners flopped under the cool trees of the town's Guaynabo Park and reached for their water bottles Gordillo's reputation as a modern-day Robin Hood has grown this summer after a series of "workers' marches" across southern Andalucía saw followers raid food from two supermarkets and hand it to the poor Flash occupations of bank branches and an empty luxury country hotel have kept his small Andalucian Workers' Union in the headlines as debate rages about a style of direct action that attracts those seeking radical change to Spain's current diet of soaring unemployment "The right likes to make out that we are a dangerous bunch of criminals a sort of modern Pancho Villa," bearded Gordillo said his trademark Palestinian-style keffiyeh scarf hanging in immaculate folds "But that is the same strategy as always First they criminalise you and then they try to get rid of you." After more than half a dozen arrests over three decades spent fighting for the rights of landless Andalucian labourers 60-year-old Gordillo will not be easily put off his latest crusade staff at the Mercadona supermarket just around the corner were clearly nervous A guard armed with a baton admitted that security had been beefed up Armed police were parked across the street Ever since Gordillo' s marchers took a dozen trolleys of food from a Mercadona in Ecija on 7 August their presence has provoked concern that – even though they are avowedly peaceful – trouble might break out "If they are taking to give to the poor then I think that is great," said Antonio Martínez an Albolote pensioner who applauded the marchers as they reached the midpoint of a two-day who has been mayor of the country town of Marinaleda for the past 33 years and is a deputy in the regional Andalucian parliament but they say I encouraged them," he said He and seven others reportedly face prison sentences of up to five years Gordillo and his lieutenant Diego Cañamero insist that the supermarket raids at Ecija and in nearby Arcos were symbolic "This is the biggest rip-off in the history of capitalism," said Gordillo "The banks created huge amounts of private debt which went toxic That is what the cuts to health and education are about "We want to show that this crisis has a human face and some don't even have enough to eat." The marchers' ranks have now been swollen by Spaniards arriving from outside Andalucía "We've spent a few days in Marinaleda seeing how things can be done differently," explained Yanira Bratos from the northern city of Aranda del Duero "And now we wanted to join the march." Gordillo's protest movement chimes with the peaceful indignado protesters who filled city squares last year along with Republican flags and a banner bearing the face of Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The situation is critical and I think there is now a chance of change The system cannot resolve people's problems," said Gordillo Gordillo has both a track record and a shop window for the movement's achievements in Marinaleda His election in 1979 appalled conservatives and former Francoists in a country which had been ruled by the dictator General Francisco Franco At a local level he has led landless labourers into occupying estates owned by absent aristocrats and has also overseen a system of self-built homes Now Gordillo is back on the national stage He is invited on to mainstream television debate shows and the conservative press is but in Andalucía it is 35%," he explained "And in some places we have visited it is close to 50%." "I have seen old women weep when we arrive," explained Bratos "I don't understand why other working people have been so rude or why some shops close," complained Eva Bermúdez As Spain's recession deepens the Andalucian Workers' Union "These people are peaceful," said Martínez "But if things get worse I can see others turning to violence." This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page An Albanian citizen and a Spanish one have been arrested by police with nearly 200 kg of drugs in Albolote Foreign local media reported that the drugs was ready to be sold while police also seized 5800 cannabis plants and two guns as further collaborators are being investigated The police agents made controls in 10 houses and discovered that 7 of them were used as cannabis centers Plenary Session Terminated after Tensions in Assembly Hall Opposition MPs Climbed through Windows to Enter Assembly Offices Tirana-Besiktas Match Suspended Due to Incidents Strong Security Measures for Bill Clinton's Visit in Tirana DP Accuses PM of Ignoring Albanians Living in Survival Conditions the young studio TEd’A arquitectes – headed by Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez recent recipient of the FAD Award for Interiors – has finished a school in the small Swiss locality of Orsonnens The design is a reinterpretation of the region’s traditional farmhouses compact volume and a clear structural order The educational program is accommodated within a block that opens on to a central void and the envelope is a rigorous fretwork of metallic shingles Against the external neutrality of the building with a multiplicity of visual relationships A weekend well spent brings a week of content The UD Almería Academy youth ranks have completed another weekend of exciting matches and the results were really positive in general although we have to regret the defeat of UD Almería U19 'A' against Granada and the 2-2 draw the under-12s  'A' with UDC Pavia UD Almería U19 'A' did not score outside of the Francisco Pomedio stadium against Granada and was narrowly defeated Zeus Carmona's lads battled hard until full-time but the Nazarí team kept the young Rojiblancos from the top positions in the table they achieved a 2-1 victory over the same rivals Both UD Almería U16s 'A' and 'B' scored goals in their respective fixtures the first ones tore UD Maracena apart (0-4) while the U16s 'B' blew CD Español Albolote away (5-1) the under-14s 'A' won 2-0 over Séneca at home while the U14s 'B' ran out 1-11 winners against La Mojonera away from their own turf Sharing the points with UDC Pavía following a 2-2 draw the two youngest outfits of the UDA Academy under-10s 'A' and 'B' thrashed their respective opponents against CD Vera (10-0) and CD Viator 'B' (0-10) The project ‘Pool with a House’ is situated on a hillside in Altos de la Zubia a suburban development with views of the city of Granada Juan Antonio Serrano and Paloma Baquero break away from the typical relationship between a house and its swimming pool inverting the traditional order: the pool becomes the center and core and embraces the actual dwelling within it Constant interaction between architecture and water generates two complementary experiences: emerging from and submerging into the water The experience of emerging starts below the water level leading to an ascent that traverses the house The rooms relate differently with the pool level by means of submerged windows Platforms at various heights – amid which is the living room sunken 90 centimeters – culminate in a lookout point the pool is a space for direct interaction with water or an underwater seat are invitations to enjoy water in multiple ways beach-like entry allows for gradual immersion into the deeper parts while the underwater windows give a view of goings-on inside the house in accordance with the light and the motion of the water Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.