Spanish teenager investigated over AI naked images of classmates
Sixteen young women at an educational institute in Valencia, in southeastern Spain, complained about the AI-generated images of them which were circulating on social media and online.
In December, a teenage girl complained to police that AI-generated video and faked photos resembling her "completely naked" were posted on a social media account started under her name.
'Photos of various people, all of them minors, appeared on this account. All these photos had been modified from the originals, which had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked,' the Spanish Civil Guard said in a statement on Sunday.
A 17-year-old boy is under investigation for alleged corruption of minors.
The Spanish government said in March said it would put forward a law to treat such deepfaked sexual imagery created by AI without consent as a crime but the bill has so far not been passed by parliament.
In September 2023, Spain was shocked when 15 minors in Extremadura, in southwest Spain, were investigated for using AI to produce fake naked images of their female schoolmates. They were later sentenced to a year's probation.
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Gjert Ingebrigtsen interview: ‘Of course there is a winner when it comes to the verdict'
Gjert Ingebrigtsen wants to talk. The track coach was accused of abusing his double Olympic champion son Jakob and daughter Ingrid physically and psychologically over several years, claims he strenuously denied. During a high-profile trial in Norway, Jakob testified he had 'become a machine that performs when asked; an athlete who performs really well under pressure and in inhuman conditions'. Ingrid, now 18, said she 'felt trapped' in her own home and 'completely bullied' by her father. Advertisement On June 16, Gjert was convicted on one count of assault against Ingrid, but acquitted of all other abuse charges against her and Jakob, now 24. The 59-year-old was given a suspended prison sentence of 15 days and ordered to pay 10,000 NOK (£730; $970) in compensation for hitting Ingrid with a towel three years ago. 'In the big picture, for our family, we lost a lot,' says Gjert, 'each other, all the good things we had together — the family as a stronghold for both our daily lives, and also for the sport. I just want to move forward. If they want my respect, they also have to respect me.' Gjert coached three of his six sons — Jakob, Filip and Henrik — to European 1500-metre titles, a remarkable period of success that peaked with Jakob winning the biggest prize of all over the distance just before his 21st birthday in 2021: Olympic gold in Tokyo. Another Olympic title followed for Jakob over 5,000m in Paris last summer. The sons split with their father as a coach in 2022 and Ingrid gave up the sport but Gjert has continued to coach other athletes, including Jakob's rival Narve Gilje Nordas, who won the Norwegian 5,000m title on Saturday and took silver in the 1500m on Sunday. The Norwegian Athletics Association has, however, refused to accredit Gjert for competitions. A month to the day after the two-week window for either side to appeal the verdict closed, Gjert speaks for an hour over a video call. He requested to talk with The Athletic following our extensive coverage of the trial. The standout points from the conversation include Gjert saying: Gjert speaks slowly and softly, often looking around the room rather than directly at the camera, sometimes starting and restarting sentences before he finds the right words. It is a contrast to the figure often seen on the reality television series Team Ingebrigtsen, which featured Gjert, wife Tone and their seven children and first aired on Norwegian broadcaster NRK in 2016. Advertisement The legal sensitivities are complex and Gjert is speaking in English, a second language, but it is hard not to feel like his focus on semantics is slightly misplaced. He repeats the word 'clarify' in explaining why he is talking now, having pushed unsuccessfully for the trial to be behind closed doors. 'It's been a while since the trial was over and the conclusion was there,' he says. But there is also another reason for talking now. Nordas, 26, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK in March that he would leave Gjert 'if it is proven that he had been violent', but has continued to train under a man who has coached him since his teens. 'In the main, he is acquitted,' Nordas said to NRK after the trial. Gjert's desire to 'clarify' the situation has also grown because Canadian Kieran Lumb has recently joined the training group. 'I want to take some of the responsibility away from my athletes,' says Gjert. 'They get questions — 'What's my situation? What does it mean, the conclusion of the trial? How can you be a part of this when Gjert is like…?'.' He tails off. Gjert has not, however, spoken to Jakob, Filip and Henrik, although he says they all live in the same neighbourhood. 'I can almost touch my children's houses, we are all within 300 metres,' says the father. 'We see each other all the time, we meet in the grocery shop nearby, the children go to the same schools. 'I still won't contact them. I'm waiting for them to contact me if they want to (talk). It's still very tense. It's still so fresh. I will not try to normalise anything. This is going to take time.' 'I was really, really relieved, because I was acquitted,' Gjert says, before speaking, unprompted, about hitting Ingrid with a towel in January 2022. 'It was an unfortunate incident. We had a tough discussion about something domestic. Sometimes you do things that are not representative (of yourself), it's very unfortunate and I'm really sorry that happened. Advertisement 'But it's a minor thing compared to the charges that were presented to me (brought on me). Normally, I wouldn't accept the outcome.' What does 'normally' mean in this context, though? 'When you see the long list of really serious charges, ending up with this 'thing', it's not worth dragging the family through another round by appealing,' he responds. Abuse in close relationships is punishable by a maximum six-year sentence in Norway, and the prosecution had pushed for two and a half years in prison. On the day of the verdict, Heidi Reisvang, one of Gjert's defence lawyers, told The Athletic that they were 'very happy for the result' because he had only been convicted of 'the lowest form of physical violence in Norwegian criminal law'. Gjert argues the scale of his offence has been 'misinterpreted'. But John Christian Elden, another of Gjert's defence lawyers, said there were 'no winners' after the trial. Gjert does not share that view. 'Of course, there is a winner when it comes to the verdict and the outcome of the case,' he says. 'I'm partly responsible. I will never talk about this in a victorious way — 'I beat you and I won the case'. For me, this is over, finished. I'm really sorry for having to have this trial.' Gjert was brought to tears more than once during the testimonies, so his particularly unemotional tone warrants a direct question. Does the conviction bother him? 'Of course it bothers me,' he says. 'The incident bothers me, but not enough to do this over again (and appeal). I can live with it, I have apologised many times, both to my daughter and to the court. What's done is done. In the big picture, it's a small thing compared to the charges.' His phrasing is interesting. He uses a pattern of vague terms, such as describing the conviction as a 'thing' and repeating the phrase, 'blah, blah, blah,' in place of giving specific details. Advertisement When recounting the events of late 2023, when Jakob, Filip and Henrik first alleged abuse by Gjert in a statement in Norwegian newspaper VG, he says: 'The police started an investigation and blah, blah, blah, it became this big, big, big thing. 'They stuck to their story and I stuck to mine. The conclusion: there's no proof. Both stories were plausible and then you end up with nothing. What can I say? 'When you decide to tell an incredible story, you either say, 'Oh, OK, I made a mistake', or you stick with the story. 'When you stick to the story, you paint this terrible picture of family life, your father and everything. That's what they did. I don't think they thought it would go this far. I think they thought it would be more of an inside-sports thing.' Does he believe what Jakob and Ingrid have said, though? Jakob said in court that he has lost the joy of competing, and Ingrid said she experiences night terrors and has to take sleeping tablets. It was not permitted to take photographs of Ingrid arriving at court — which is why no images of her appear in this story — and there was a reporting ban on certain sections of her testimony. 'I have to believe that when they look at their lives, that's what they remember, what they feel about it now,' Gjert says. 'Even though I'm not sure they felt the same when…' he tails off. 'I'm not sure how to interpret the things that were said. 'Maybe I didn't have or didn't take the time to be more observant, especially about Ingrid and her needs and feelings. Maybe these are only reflections I do after being through this. '(I was) not enough of a father for her — the only girl — in the right sense because the coach took over. That's the reflection I did a long time ago. I apologised to her that I was too focused on other things, especially for Jakob and the boys.' Until last week, Gjert chose not to speak publicly on the charges. His denial of the October 2023 statement from his sons came as a statement from his lawyers, and he testified in court that he 'did not want to contribute to turning this into a bigger circus than necessary'. 'It's been really difficult to keep quiet,' he adds now. Advertisement Yet for five years, he was a central figure in the Team Ingebrigtsen series, which first put Jakob in front of the cameras at age 11. Ingrid was even younger. Gjert says that seeing extracts of the show played in court was 'the most emotional for me' — harder than listening to his children's testimonies. 'I hadn't seen the television show,' he says. 'That was so close and so real. The testimonies were what I expected — I read the statements from the police, I knew what was coming — but it was very difficult to see the television series. It's the emotions that come back to you. 'When you are parents, and especially when it comes to championships and results and everything you worked for, when you see your children reaching their goals and their dreams, that's very emotional. The television series, that was real. Reality and real things are more emotional and tense than fiction or stories.' He says he does not regret Team Ingebrigtsen, but would he do it all the same again? 'It's difficult to say because we didn't know what we said 'yes' to. It was not a commercial thing. Exposing the children in that way — I don't feel it. I don't feel that they were very exposed because it's not commercial. It's like normal life, normal things: training, eating, sleeping, travelling, competing. 'Also, the interviews are not very personal. We did what we did to document how tough it was for a family to try to work together for these common goals, the dreams.' Late in the trial, Tone, Gjert's wife of nearly 40 years and mother to the seven Ingebrigtsen siblings, demanded a closed court to testify. She was granted those 'special circumstances', the court explained, because her testimony was considered pivotal. Gjert says he did not know she wanted to 'empty the courthouse, or what she was going to say'. 'She took charge and did it her way,' he adds. 'That makes me really proud. I would maybe suggest her being in an open court, so everybody could listen to her testimony, but I never told her my opinion.' In court, Jakob said his mother was in an 'impossible situation and has no control over her own life', claiming she had seen alleged incidents of abuse and was a 'victim' herself. 'I really don't have any expectations of her,' Ingrid told the court of her mother, who did not give a statement to the police. 'But if she doesn't choose to tell the truth or support me and believe me, I won't have people like that in my life.' Advertisement Gjert accepts that 'it's difficult to understand that I didn't inflict on her in any way'. He says he advised Tone to seek external advice. But was he ever concerned that Tone's closed-court demands might damage her relationships with their children? 'I was never afraid of that, because I was sure she wouldn't say anything negative about the children,' he says. 'She didn't want to end up in conflict. She was very clear and objective, case-oriented.' After the trial, the Norwegian Athletics Association wanted to suspend Gjert from coaching, but the Norwegian Sports Federation, a higher governing body, rejected this. 'It's difficult to understand why this has anything to do with any federation,' Gjert says. 'They (the federation) never talked to me about this.' But while he is permitted to coach, the Norwegian Athletics Association will continue to deny him accreditation for national and global championships. 'That's a problem for my athletes. Not for me. It's not my accreditation,' he says. 'They are not punishing me. It's Narve getting punished, it's his accreditation for having a coach. Narve is a top-10 1500m athlete. 'I've been a part of major championships since 2010. I have more than 30 medals internationally. I have no use for this accreditation. I'm there for him, not for me.' Nordas ranks 18th on the global 1500m list for 2025 but is the ninth-quickest miler this year. What does Gjert think would happen, hypothetically, if Nordas trained elsewhere? 'If he changed coaches, he would have his coach with him at all times. OK, so they punish him for having me as a coach,' he says. With Jakob and Nordas now Norway's top two middle-distance runners, does Gjert feel conflicted watching his son compete against his athlete? 'The results reflect on your job as a coach, but still, family is family,' he says. 'I will always want the best for my family, but the last few years I've found some balance between my professional and private life. Advertisement 'I will love my children for other qualities than their ability to run fast. If they run or not, it doesn't matter to me. When they are there running, I have a professional attitude towards it — but still, I'm a father. 'I look forward to when we are not in this arena anymore, when we don't have this (competition). As long as we keep doing this, it will always be difficult.' Having called the past three years a 'lesson', one wonders what Gjert has learned. In 2019, he took pride in Filip calling him a 'dictator', and said in an interview with The Telegraph that 'a dictatorship is much better than the opposite'. Has he changed that approach? 'I'm still the same. It will always be like that. But maybe I'm a little bit more round around the edges. I'm getting older, more experienced. I would like to think so. 'As a coach, I will have it my way. That's the only way I know how to coach. If I cannot have it my way, there's no point being in it, because I'm not in it for me, I'm in it for the athletes. I expect the athletes to follow my guidance.' (Top image: Illustration by Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photography by Fredrik Hagen / AP Photo)
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Italy's fast fashion hub becomes Chinese mafia battlefield
When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy's storied textile hub of Prato. But a "hanger war" is raging in the city near Florence -- turning Europe's largest apparel manufacturing centre and a pillar of Made in Italy production into a battleground for warring Chinese mafia groups. The situation has become so urgent that Prato's prosecutor, Luca Tescaroli, has appealed to Rome for help, calling for an anti-mafia division and reinforcements for judges and police. Tescaroli has warned that the escalation in crime has become a huge business operation and moved beyond Italy, particularly to France and Spain. The gangs are battling to control the production of hundreds of millions of clothes hangers each year -- the market is estimated to be worth 100 million euros ($115 million) -- and the bigger prize of transporting apparel. The Chinese mafia also "promotes the illegal immigration of workers of various nationalities" for Prato, Tescaroli told AFP. The veteran anti-mafia prosecutor said the "phenomenon has been underestimated", allowing the mafia to expand its reach. With one of Europe's largest Chinese communities, the city of nearly 200,000 people has seen Chinese business owners and factory workers beaten or threatened in recent months, with cars and warehouses burned. The ex-head of Prato's police investigative unit, Francesco Nannucci, said the Chinese mafia run betting dens, prostitution and drugs -- and provide their Italian counterparts with under-the-radar money transfers. For mafia leaders, "to be able to command in Prato means being able to lead in much of Europe," Nannucci told AFP. - 'Well-oiled system' - Chinese groups in the district thrive on the so-called "Prato system", long rife with corruption and irregularities, particularly in the fast-fashion sector, such as labour and safety violations plus tax and customs fraud. Prato's 5,000-odd apparel and knitwear businesses, mostly small, Chinese-run subcontractors, churn out low-priced items that end up in shops across Europe. They pop up quickly and shut down just as fast, playing a cat-and-mouse game with authorities to avoid taxes or fines. Fabric is smuggled from China, evading customs duties and taxes, while profits are returned to China via illegal money transfers. To stay competitive, the sector relies on cheap, around-the-clock labour, mostly from China and Pakistan, which Tescaroli told a Senate committee in January was "essential for its proper functioning". "It's not just one or two bad apples, but a well-oiled system they use, and do very well -- closing, reopening, not paying taxes," said Riccardo Tamborrino, a Sudd Cobas union organiser leading strikes on behalf of immigrants. Investigators say the immigrants work seven days a week, 13 hours a day for about three euros ($3.40) an hour. Tamborrino said Prato's apparel industry was "free from laws, from contracts". "It's no secret," he said. "All this is well known." - 'Miss Fashion' - Trucks lumber day and night through the streets of Prato's industrial zone, an endless sprawl of asphalt lined with warehouses and apparel showrooms with names like "Miss Fashion" and "Ohlala Pronto Moda". Open metal doors reveal loaded garment racks, rolls of fabric and stacks of boxes awaiting shipment -- the final step controlled by Zhang Naizhong, whom prosecutors dub the "boss of bosses" within Italy's Chinese mafia. A 2017 court document described Zhang as the "leading figure in the unscrupulous circles of the Chinese community" in Europe, with a monopoly on the transport sector and operations in France, Spain, Portugal and Germany. Zhang Dayong, the man killed in Rome alongside his girlfriend in April, was Zhang Naizhong's deputy. The shootings followed three massive fires set at his warehouses outside Paris and Madrid in previous months. Nannucci believes Naizhong could be in China, after his 2022 acquittal for usury in a huge ongoing Chinese mafia trial plagued by problems -- including a lack of translators and missing files. On a recent weekday, a handful of Pakistani men picketed outside the company that had employed them, after it shut down overnight having just agreed to give workers a contract under Italian law. Muhammed Akram, 44, saw his boss quietly emptying the factory of sewing machines, irons and other equipment. "Sneaky boss," he said, in broken Italian. Chinese garment workers, who are in the majority in Prato and often brought to Italy by the mafia, never picket, union activists say -- they are too frightened to protest. - Trading favours - Changes in apparel manufacturing, globalisation and migration have all contributed to the so-called "Prato system". So has corruption. In May 2024, the second-in-command within Prato's Carabinieri police was accused of giving Italian and Chinese entrepreneurs -- among them a chamber of commerce businessman -- access to the police database for information, including on workers. Police complaints from attacked workers "ended up in a drawer, never reaching the court", Sudd Cobas organiser Francesca Ciuffi told AFP. Prato's mayor resigned in June in a corruption investigation, accused of trading favours with the businessman for votes. In recent months, the union has secured regular contracts under national law for workers at over 70 companies. That will not help those caught in Prato's mafia war, however, where "bombs have exploded and warehouses have been burned down", said Ciuffi. "People who wake up in the morning, quietly going to work, risk getting seriously injured, if not worse, because of a war that doesn't concern them." ams/oc/rlp/tc
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7 hours ago
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Fact Check: Yes, Trump was called a 'convicted US felon' by Scottish newspaper
Claim: In advance of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, Scottish newspaper The National's front page read "Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland." Rating: In late July 2025, claims about how a Scottish newspaper characterized U.S. President Donald Trump in advance of his visit to Scotland gained attention across social media platforms. For instance, a July 27 Facebook post (archived) featured an alleged image of the newspaper's front page reading: "This is how one of Scotland's largest publications welcomed Donald Trump!" (Occupy Democrats/Facebook) The post accumulated more than 34,000 reactions as of this writing. Similar claims have appeared across Facebook (archived), as well as on Reddit (archived) and Bluesky (archived). We found this claim to be true. The National, a Scottish newspaper, published (archived) a front page with the headline "Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland" on July 25 as Trump arrived in Scotland. The newspaper's front-page story included the subheading "Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses." The National's official X account posted (archived) the front page with the caption: "Tomorrow's front page. Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland." The X account also posted (archived) a video that showed one of the paper's journalists, Laura Pollock, holding the print version, stating: "Supporters of Donald Trump are very angry at our front page this morning but we have a challenge for them. Which part is factually inaccurate?" The description "convicted US felon" is factually accurate. Trump was convicted (archived) on May 30, 2024, by a Manhattan jury on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, related to hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Although he received an "unconditional discharge" sentence on Jan. 10, 2025 — meaning no prison time, probation or fines — the conviction remains on his record. The National is a Scottish daily newspaper owned by Newsquest Media Group, which has been a subsidiary of the American media company Gannett — publisher of USA Today — since 1999. It began publication (archived) on Nov. 24, 2014, and was the first daily newspaper in Scotland to support Scottish independence. Media Bias/Fact Check, a tool that provides transparency to a source's biases and objectivity, rated (archived) The National as "Left-Center biased based on editorial positions that moderately favor the left" while giving it a "High" rating for factual reporting due to "the use of credible sources and a clean fact-check record." Shalal, Andrea and Andrew Macaskill. "Trump travels to Scotland for golf and bilateral talks amid Epstein furor." Reuters, 25 July 2025, Accessed 25 July 2025. Jackson, Lucky. "The National newspaper front page as Donald Trump visits Scotland." The National, 25 July 2025, Accessed 25 July 2025. Herb, Jeremy, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell. "Trump found guilty in hush money trial." CNN, 30 May 2024, Accessed 25 July 2025. Bustillo, Ximena. "Trump is sentenced in hush money case — but gets no penalty or fine." NPR, 10 Jan. 2025, Accessed 25 July 2025. Press Association. "The National launches in Scotland 'to fly flag for independence'." The Guardian, 24 Nov. 2014, Accessed 25 July 2025. "The National – Scotland – Bias and Credibility." Media Bias/Fact Check, Accessed 25 July 2025.
