Today in Spain: A roundup of the latest news on Friday

Stepson of Marbella’s mayor faces 18 years for drug trafficking

A Spanish prosecutor has upheld her request for an 18-year prison sentence and a €30 million fine for Swedish national Joakim Peter Broberg, the stepson of the mayor of Marbella Ángeles Muñoz, for drug trafficking and money laundering.

Joakim Peter Broberg is the son of the late Swedish businessman Lars Gunnar Broberg, who was the husband of Ángeles Muñoz and was also investigated for allegedly helping him launder profits from illicit activities.

The prosecutor believes Broberg acted as the head of a criminal gang made of up Swedes, Poles, Spaniards, Germans and other foreigners nationalities which specialised in trafficking hashish and marijuana from Morocco.

Pamplona remembers those who’ve lost their lives in San Fermín bull run

Authorities in the northern Spanish city have engraved in the city’s bull run monument the names of the runners who have lost their lives in the dangerous encierros over the past decades.

Sixteen people have lost their lives during the bull run, the last in 2009, but every year there are bull gorings and other injuries sustained by the runners.

San Fermín is due to start in Pamplona on Sunday July 6th.

Spain to hand out sentences to sexual conversion therapy organisers

Spain’s Congress has approved a bill to punish conversion therapies based on sexual orientation, sexual identity, or gender expression with prison sentences.

The Lower House will begin working on this regulation after all parliamentary groups, with the exception of Vox, have voted in favour of its processing .

The bill seeks to introduce these practices into the Penal Code and consider them a crime punishable by six months to two years in prison.

Socialist MP Víctor Gutiérrez has denounced these therapies as " one of the worst forms of violence a person can suffer , which is being forced to hate themselves, being physically or psychologically tortured to have their orientation or identity ripped away."

The bill received the support of all parties except Vox.

Spain to restrict fear-based advertising

Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs will regulate what is known as "fear advertising," which is used, for example, by security companies to create fear in situations such as robberies or occupations.

It will do so through its Sustainable Consumption Law, which according to Ministry sources will be approved very soon.

"This is a type of advertising that uses manipulative messages and exploits emotions such as anxiety and fear," they indicate.