A Barcelona judge has sentenced the owner of the Librería Europa, Pedro Varela, to two years and nine months in prison for spreading genocidal ideas through the works he edited and sold (read the article in Castilian here, La Vanguardia). The bookshop owner, a supposed neo-Nazi, was convicted for the dissemination of ideas against genocide and other fundamental rights, and for showing "a contempt for the Jewish people and other minorities and for the recommendation of racial segregation". Varela was also sentenced in 1998 to five years in prison, following a similar charge but in 2008, the Court of Barcelona lowered his sentence to seven months in prison after the Tribunal Constitucional (Constitutional Court) ruled that the denial of genocide is not a crime. The recent conviction also condemns Pedro Varela to pay a fine of nearly €3,000 and ordered the destruction of all books and items seized at the bookstore, including a bust of Hitler, a swastika and metal helmets.

Also in the news: Barcelona council asks for more time to implement and perfect new rubbish collection system (read the article here in Castilian, El Periodico); Barcelona Fotogràfic Arxiu is to exhibit hundreds of previously unpublished photographs depicting everyday life on the Rambla from 1907 and 1908 (read article in full in Castilian here, El Periodico).