LONDON — Months after publicly available Jeffrey Epstein court documents were unsealed earlier this year, United Kingdom law enforcement has opened two formal probes into long-unresolved allegations of child sexual abuse tied to the disgraced financier’s network. Surrey Police, the force responsible for the county bordering southwest London, confirmed the new investigations in an official statement issued to reporters Tuesday, outlining the separate geographic and timelines for each claim. The first allegation centers on incidents that are alleged to have occurred across locations in both Surrey and the neighboring county of Berkshire between the middle of the 1990s and the turn of the millennium. The second claim dates back even further, referencing reported abuse that took place in the western part of Surrey during the mid-to-late 1980s. As of the latest update from law enforcement, no suspects have been taken into custody, and no charges have been filed in connection with either investigation. In its public statement, Surrey Police emphasized its commitment to thorough, impartial work on all cases of sexual violence. “We take all reports of sexual offending seriously and will work to identify any reasonable lines of enquiry to verify information or establish corroborating evidence,” the statement read. These new probes follow a public appeal for witnesses that UK police issued in late 2023, shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice released a heavily redacted court document detailing widespread claims of human trafficking and sexual assault. Among the allegations laid out in that unsealed record were claims that abuse occurred between 1994 and 1996 in Virginia Water, a wealthy commuter community located within Surrey. The unsealing of the Epstein files, which contained hundreds of pages of court testimony and witness statements from the late 2010s civil case against the financier, reignited global calls for law enforcement to revisit unresolved claims tied to Epstein’s international connections, more than five years after the disgraced financier died by suicide in a New York jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
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Watch: Can a Republican win an election while at war with Trump?
A high-stakes Republican primary race in Kentucky has emerged as a critical test case for a question roiling the U.S. conservative movement: can a GOP candidate win elected office while openly clashing with former President Donald Trump? At the center of this fight is Thomas Massie, the incumbent congressman who gained national attention earlier this year for spearheading efforts to force the release of previously sealed court documents connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Now, Massie faces a fierce challenge from a political opponent who has secured the full endorsement and active support of Trump, a move that has amplified national attention on this down-ballot contest. The race is being closely watched by political strategists across the ideological spectrum, as it will offer key insights into the depth of Trump’s hold over the modern Republican Party. For years, intra-GOP challengers backed by Trump have ousted incumbent lawmakers who broke with the former president on key issues, from policy to personal loyalty. Massie’s high-profile push to unseal the Epstein files, a move that has put pressure on political figures from both major parties, has made him a test case for whether GOP voters will still back an incumbent who has not aligned fully with Trump’s agenda and political preferences. The outcome of the primary will have ripple effects for future GOP contests, as incumbent lawmakers weigh the political risks of breaking with the party’s dominant figure ahead of the 2024 election cycle.
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Israeli settler filmed throwing concrete block at cats days after dog beating
In the occupied West Bank, two disturbing incidents of animal cruelty perpetrated by Israeli settlers have sparked renewed attention to the escalating pattern of settler violence targeting Palestinian communities and their property, just weeks after a broader regional escalation that began last year. The most recent incident, captured on camera on Monday, unfolded during an active Israeli military raid in the town of Atara, located north of the Palestinian administrative center Ramallah. Viral footage shared widely across social media platforms shows a settler lifting a heavy concrete block and throwing it directly at two stray cats in the area. This attack came only days after another widely circulated video documented a far more brutal assault on a domestic dog owned by a local Palestinian family in the same town.
In that earlier incident, the settler approached the 18-month-old dog, named Lucy, who was chained securely to a fixed location as a guard animal and posed no imminent threat to anyone. The video footage captures the attacker repeatedly striking the restrained animal with thick wooden sticks, as a second chained dog watches and barks frantically nearby. By the time the assault ended, Lucy had sustained life-threatening catastrophic injuries and required urgent emergency veterinary care. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which first reported on the details of the case, Lucy has since been stabilized after treatment. Still, the veterinarian who treated her described the animal’s condition immediately after the attack as devastating. “There was severe bleeding from her eyes and her head was literally crushed,” the vet told the outlet. “She was almost unconscious. She couldn’t stand or move at all.”
The Palestinian owner of Lucy, who chose to remain anonymous out of well-founded fear of retaliatory violence from settlers, emphasized that the dog never presented any danger to the attacker. “She wasn’t loose, she didn’t attack him or bite him,” he said. “He attacked a tied-up dog.”
Both of these recent attacks took place in close proximity to an unauthorized Israeli settler outpost, constructed last year on privately owned Palestinian land in Area B of the occupied West Bank. The Oslo Accords, signed in the 1990s to framework Palestinian-Israeli relations, divided the West Bank into three administrative zones: Area A, covering 21 percent of the territory, falls under full Palestinian civil and security control; Area B, which makes up approximately 18 percent of the land, is managed by Palestinian civil authorities with Israel retaining exclusive security jurisdiction; and Area C, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the West Bank, remains under full Israeli civil and security control. Unauthorized outposts such as the one near Atara are considered illegal even under Israeli domestic law, unlike fully authorized Israeli settlements, which are deemed illegal under international law for occupying Palestinian land.
Settler violence against Palestinian people and property has been a persistent reality in the occupied West Bank for decades, but human rights organizations and local residents confirm that this aggression has intensified dramatically since the start of the Israel-Gaza war in 2023. Alongside attacks on Palestinian people and property, abuse and violence against Palestinian-owned animals has surged, with numerous recorded testimonies and video footages documenting routine beatings, intentional killings, and poisonings of domestic and working animals. Rights groups have also documented widespread theft of entire herds of livestock by settlers, a tactic that experts and local residents frame as part of a deliberate campaign of intimidation designed to force Palestinian families off their ancestral land, farms, and homes.
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Projected economic growth in NSW slashed by 1.5 per cent as Treasurer blames inflation, war in Iran
Australia’s most populous and economically active state, New South Wales (NSW), has issued a sharp downward revision to its upcoming financial year economic growth projections, citing cascading risks from the escalating conflict in the Middle East as a key destabilizing factor, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey confirmed Wednesday during an address to the Sydney-based McKell Institute.
Previously projected to expand by 2.5% in the 2026-2027 financial year in forecasts published last December, the state’s economy is now expected to grow by just 1%, Mookhey revealed. The unexpected downgrade, released four weeks ahead of the official June state budget as an extraordinary pre-budget transparency measure, marks one of the clearest indicators of how Middle East tensions between the US, Israel and Iran are rippling through to the Australian economy.
Mookhey emphasized that the impact of the conflict on global energy markets will be persistent, even if hostilities de-escalate immediately. “Even if the war in the Middle East ended today, petrol prices are not falling tomorrow. Oil markets will take time to normalise – if they ever do,” he told the audience.
The slowdown is projected to hit NSW harder than any other Australian state, Mookhey explained, a gap driven largely by the state’s higher average mortgage sizes that leave households more exposed to elevated Reserve Bank of Australia interest rates. Higher inflation has forced central bank rate hikes to cool demand, which in turn has dragged down household consumption across the country. But in NSW, the burden is far heavier: the average working family taking out a new mortgage in the state borrows roughly $873,000, compared to just $677,000 for comparable households in Victoria, Australia’s second-largest state – a 28% difference. “That is why NSW fares better when interest rates fall. And fares worse when they rise,” Mookhey said.
Beyond economic headwinds, the treasurer waded into growing state political tensions around climate policy, as the incumbent Labor government prepares for upcoming state elections early next year, where right-wing populist party One Nation is gaining traction. One Nation, led by Pauline Hanson, recently claimed the federal NSW seat of Farrer earlier this month and turned in strong results in the South Australian state election, signaling growing electoral support for the party in the region.
Mookhey attacked the opposition for shifting alignment on net-zero policy, arguing that the federal Liberal Party has aligned with One Nation to oppose NSW’s legally binding net-zero emissions targets. The state Liberal-National coalition already faced a bitter internal split on the issue late last year, when then-opposition leader Mark Speakman reaffirmed the party’s commitment to net-zero, prompting a rupture with the rural NSW Nationals. Current opposition leader Kellie Sloane, who took over the role late last year, has faced mounting pressure from the increasingly right-leaning federal branch of the party to reverse the net-zero commitment.
“I have no idea if the NSW Liberal Party agrees with the Federal Liberal Party, which agrees with the One Nation Party,” Mookhey said. “The Member for Vaucluse (Ms Sloane) could end this uncertainty by declaring whether she is for or against the state’s legislated net zero targets. To campaign against NSW’s net-zero targets is to campaign for a NSW recession.”
Despite the sharp growth downgrade, Mookhey stressed that the state is well-positioned to avoid a full recession, pointing to the ongoing renewable energy investment boom driven by NSW’s early adoption of net-zero as an economic development strategy. The state is currently host to a large pipeline of renewable energy construction projects, paired with extensive upgrades to transmission infrastructure and grid connections that will drive sustained activity and investment through the slowdown. “NSW is home to this investment boom because NSW is (and was) the first state to truly have grasped that reaching net zero is a sound economic strategy,” he added.
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Two new California wildfires seen from space
Two massive, entirely uncontained wildfires are tearing across Southern California, with satellite imagery from NASA laying bare the alarming scope of the blazes that have forced tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes. The first, named the Sandy Fire, sparked early Monday morning near Simi Valley, a city located just northwest of Los Angeles, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Local satellite captures taken shortly after noon on Monday show a thick, towering plume of dark smoke billowing thousands of feet into the atmosphere just south of the city limits. As of Tuesday morning, firefighting operations are in full swing: 750 frontline firefighters are backed by specialized night-flying water-dropping helicopters, which allow crews to target dangerous hotspots even after the sun sets, a critical capability that slows the fire’s spread when ground crews can no longer operate.
Initial investigation into the cause of the Sandy Fire points to a mechanical accident, local law enforcement confirmed. The Simi Valley Police Department received reports that a person operating a tractor struck a rock, creating a spark that ignited dry vegetation and quickly grew into the raging inferno now sprawling across 1,364 acres (550 hectares) of land. As of Tuesday, no portion of the fire has been brought under containment, and data from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) shows active burn hotspots shifted steadily southward overnight into Tuesday.
The mass evacuation order issued for the region covers more than 10,000 homes across Simi Valley and its adjacent communities, with an additional 3,500 homes placed under mandatory evacuation warning that extends into neighboring Los Angeles County. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stressed that city officials do not currently forecast the blaze will reach Los Angeles proper, but warnings were issued as a proactive precaution “out of an abundance of caution.” A spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection noted that unseasonably strong high winds on Monday morning fanned the fire’s rapid spread, though wind speeds dropped significantly later in the day, giving crews a small window of opportunity to gain ground.
In response to the ongoing emergency, the Simi Valley Unified School District canceled all classes across every campus in the district for Tuesday, as multiple schools were being used as emergency evacuation shelters for displaced residents. This outbreak of wildfire comes just 16 months after a devastating series of fast-moving blazes ripped through the Los Angeles area in January 2025, killing roughly 30 people and destroying more than 10,000 structures, a disaster that left a lasting mark on the region’s emergency preparedness frameworks.
A second, far larger wildfire is also burning uncontained dozens of miles off the Southern California coast on Santa Rosa Island, part of the protected Channel Islands National Park. US National Park Service officials confirmed the fire has already charred 14,600 acres (6,000 hectares) of the island, with satellite imagery confirming the blaze has pushed northeast over the weekend and is now spreading deeper into the island’s interior.
First reported to authorities on Friday, the Santa Rosa Island fire remained 0% contained as of Monday evening. At least 70 firefighters alongside trained park rangers have been deployed to battle the remote blaze, working under challenging conditions with limited access to the island’s rugged terrain. In a separate operation linked to the fire, the US Coast Guard confirmed it successfully rescued a 67-year-old man who was stranded along the island’s shoreline, though details on the man’s condition have not yet been released.
Santa Rosa Island is the second-largest of the five Channel Islands located off Southern California’s coast. It is almost entirely uninhabited by permanent human residents, but it hosts one of the most unique and biodiverse ecosystems in the continental United States, home to dozens of rare and endemic plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth. Conservation experts are already sounding alarms about the potential long-term impact of the massive burn on the island’s fragile native habitats.
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Kyiv holds a funeral for 2 young sisters killed by a Russian missile strike
In the shadow of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, a sacred space long used by Kyiv residents to honor fallen soldiers and prominent lives lost to Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion, an unusual and devastating scene unfolded Tuesday. Where coffins of grown military personnel usually lie, two small white caskets stood side by side, holding the bodies of 12-year-old Liubava Yakovlieva and 17-year-old Vira Yakovlieva. The sisters were among 24 civilians killed when a Russian missile slammed into their Kyiv apartment building on May 14, trapping them under collapsed concrete. Their mother Tetiana is now the only surviving member of her family: her husband Yevhen, a Ukrainian soldier, died in combat on the front line three years prior.
Dozens of children, the two girls’ classmates from local schools, filed through the monastery dressed in all black, leaning on one another for support as they said their final goodbyes. Buckets placed at the foot of the coffins quickly overflowed with bouquets, with more floral tributes spread across the stone floor. Photos propped on the caskets showed the blond sisters, Liubava full of childlike energy and Vira wearing her signature glasses. Grown mourners and children alike wept openly through the service; standing among the crowd were several of Yevhen’s former brothers-in-arms, who came to pay their respects to the entire fallen family.
Before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Yevhen was known across his community as a gifted home cook, an enthusiastic fisherman, and a handyman who could fix almost anything for neighbors and friends. When Russian forces crossed Ukraine’s border, he immediately enlisted in the Ukrainian military, and was killed in action near the village of Dibrova in the Luhansk region in April 2023. Now, the war that took his life has reached the rest of his family, leaving his wife with no surviving kin.
Footage captured by Current Time, a project operated by Radio Liberty, shows Tetiana speaking to rescuers in the immediate aftermath of the May 14 strike, as workers sifted through the rubble of her home searching for any sign of her daughters. “I already lost their father, my husband, a defender of Ukraine,” she told reporters at the scene. “I don’t know if they are alive or if they have already gone to be with their father. To say this is very painful tells you nothing. You cannot understand the weight unless you have felt it yourself.”
Dmytro Koval, who taught Vira painting and drawing at a Kyiv art college, remembered the teen as an exceptional student: strong-willed, unafraid to share her unique perspective, and deeply kind to her peers. When news of her death reached the campus, the entire community was left reeling from shock. “When death comes for people you saw and talked to just yesterday, it is always very hard, unspeakably hard,” Koval said at the funeral. “We must not live on illusions, on empty dreams, on hopes for some negotiations that will fix everything, because our neighbors are not oriented toward peace.”
Family friend Tetiana Osipova, who served alongside Yevhen in the military and accompanied his body home after his death, said 12-year-old Liubava defied expectations: she appeared small and delicate on the outside, but carried an inner strength that matched her older sister’s. Osipova added that the two girls struggled for years to process the loss of their father, and that on the day of the strike, she stood by Tetiana’s side as rescuers searched the rubble.
Today, Osipova said, Tetiana carries a grief no parent should ever know: she is no longer a wife, and no longer a mother. But despite the unthinkable loss, her friend remains determined to find the strength to honor the memories of her husband and daughters, and to carry on their legacy. “This is an unnatural order of things, when parents bury their children,” Efrem Khomiak, the priest leading the funeral service, told the gathered crowd of mourners. “This funeral, this grief, this tragedy, it is not only your family’s. It belongs to all of Ukraine. Because we are all bound together in this war.”
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Police say dozens of people and organizations could be charged over deadly 2017 London fire
LONDON – Nearly 10 years after the deadliest residential fire in modern British history claimed 72 lives at London’s Grenfell Tower, Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday that investigators will submit cases against 57 individuals and 20 organizations to public prosecutors, to review potential criminal charges over the disaster.
According to police, all compiled evidence files will be delivered to the Crown Prosecution Service by the end of September this year, with a final charging decision scheduled for June 14, 2027 – exactly 10 years after the 2017 blaze that ripped through the 24-storey west London public housing block. For bereaved families and survivors who have waited years for accountability, any additional delay to justice would be impossible to accept.
The 2017 disaster began when a small fourth-floor apartment kitchen fire broke out in the early hours of June 14. Instead of being contained, the fire spread rapidly up the building’s exterior, fueled by highly combustible cladding panels that had been installed during a recent renovation. The blaze tore through the entire tower in just minutes, trapping residents inside and killing 72 people – among them 18 children and multiple elderly retirees. It remains the worst fire disaster the United Kingdom has experienced since World War II.
A damning multi-year public inquiry released its final findings in 2024, concluding that all 72 deaths were entirely preventable. The report laid out a devastating chain of failure: private manufacturing and construction companies cut corners to use cheap, non-fire-resistant cladding materials and engaged in widespread, systematic dishonesty to hide safety risks. These corporate failures were compounded by incompetent industry regulators and systemic government negligence that failed to enforce basic building safety rules, allowing the lethal cladding to be wrapped around the 25-story building full of working-class residents.
Grenfell United, the advocacy group representing many bereaved families and survivors, said frustration has mounted after years of waiting. “We have waited almost a decade for accountability,” the group said. “No family should have to wait over 10 years for justice for their loved ones, if it comes at all.”
Investigators confirmed that potential criminal charges under consideration include corporate gross negligence manslaughter, fraud, and breaches of UK health and safety legislation. The probe into the disaster stands as the largest and most complex criminal investigation in the Metropolitan Police’s history: officers have collected more than 165 million electronic documents, and reviewed the potential roles of 15,000 individuals and 700 different organizations connected to the tower’s design, construction and renovation.
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Ukraine war widow buries her daughters killed by Russia
Five days after a devastating Russian missile strike reduced her Kyiv apartment block to rubble, Tetiana Yakovlieva laid her two daughters to rest on Tuesday, adding another devastating chapter to the human cost of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022.
Yakovlieva already knew the pain of war: her husband had volunteered to fight for Ukraine shortly after the 2022 invasion and died in combat three years prior. When the Kh-101 cruise missile struck her family’s nine-story building in a leafy Kyiv neighborhood last week, she waited for hours alongside rescue teams, clinging to the faint hope that her 12-year-old daughter Vira and 17-year-old daughter Liubava would be pulled alive from the debris. When the dust settled, that hope faded, and the grim work of recovering the girls’ bodies began.
“It’s so painful — these words won’t mean anything to you until you feel it yourself,” Yakovlieva told local reporters at the strike site, still reeling from shock amid the rubble of her home.
By Tuesday, the mother, ashen-faced and hunched in grief, stood before two closed coffins inside Kyiv’s gold-domed Saint Michael’s Orthodox Cathedral, where a priest led a funeral mass for the girls. Surrounded by mourners dressed in black, many weeping, clutching flowers, and leaning on one another for support, the priest acknowledged that no words could ease the weight of losing children so young.
“No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people,” he told the gathered crowd. “This is a tragedy not only for your family, it is a tragedy for our entire Ukrainian state today.”
As the service unfolded, air raid sirens warning of new Russian attacks echoed across Kyiv, a constant reminder of the ongoing violence that claimed the sisters’ lives. The girls are among 24 civilians killed in the early Thursday strike, which marked the deadliest Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital so far this year, part of a massive barrage that included 56 missiles and 675 combat drones launched at targets across Ukraine.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko confirmed the strike that killed the sisters was almost certainly carried out by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, which detonated on the building’s ground floor. The blast buckled the apartment block’s foundations, causing a progressive collapse that crushed multiple floors above. Ukrainian defense analysts estimate each of these missiles costs the Russian government approximately $1.2 million.
Reporters from Agence France-Presse who visited the strike site in the immediate aftermath saw emergency workers pulling dead and wounded survivors from the rubble on stretchers, while bystanders — including classmates of the two sisters — waited anxiously for word of missing loved ones.
At the funeral, mourners who knew the girls spoke of the senseless cruelty of their deaths. “It’s hard to say anything when children are killed. Especially children when they were sleeping. It’s barbarity,” Natalia, a woman whose own son was killed alongside Yakovlieva’s husband, told AFP. Olga, an art teacher who taught 12-year-old Vira to draw, remembered both sisters as talented, outgoing young women, describing their deaths as “an inexpressible pain.”
In the hours after the mass strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to social media to condemn the attack, saying Russia “deliberately destroys lives” and calling on Kyiv’s international allies to increase pressure on Moscow to bring an end to the full-scale invasion. “It is Ukraine that is defending Europe and the world so that such strikes, in which children are killed, do not spread further,” he added.
The Kremlin has repeatedly claimed that its forces only target military infrastructure in Ukraine and denies intentionally striking civilian targets. But the deaths of Vira and Liubava bring the official confirmed number of Ukrainian children killed since the 2022 invasion to at least 704, according to Ukrainian police data. Thousands more children have been wounded or remain missing in the three years of war.
Before the procession carried the girls’ coffins to the cemetery for burial, the priest reminded mourners that the sisters’ names, Vira and Liubava, translate to “faith” and “love” in Ukrainian. He told the gathered crowd the girls were now in a place beyond the reach of conflict. “In a place where there is no war, no pain, no grief, no suffering, no sighing, but eternal blessed life,” he said.
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Slovenia set for a right-wing government and a comeback for former Prime Minister Jansa
Nearly two months after Slovenia held its closely contested parliamentary election, a path to a new government has finally emerged, with veteran right-wing politician Janez Jansa on track to retake the post of prime minister following his official nomination to the national parliament on Tuesday.
A 67-year-old political figure who has already held the prime minister’s office three times previously, Jansa received his formal nomination from legislators of his own Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS). If confirmed by parliament, he will helm a new right-leaning coalition government that brings together multiple conservative-aligned groups, with extra backing provided by a first-term anti-establishment party that entered the legislature in the latest vote.
As of Tuesday, parliamentary authorities had not yet announced a firm date for the final confirmation vote on Jansa’s premiership and his proposed cabinet. Slovenia’s public broadcaster RTV Slovenia has confirmed that Jansa already commands the support of 48 of the 90 total lawmakers in the country’s national assembly, putting him within reach of the backing needed to form a government.
A successful confirmation would shift the small European Union member state sharply to the right politically, ending four years of liberal governance under outgoing Prime Minister Robert Golob. Jansa, a known admirer of former U.S. President Donald Trump and a long-time close ally of populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, most recently held the prime ministership from 2020 to 2022. It was in that year’s election that Golob’s liberal Freedom Movement party unseated Jansa’s government.
Jansa has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Golob’s outgoing administration, taking particular aim at the liberal government’s 2024 decision to formally recognize Palestinian statehood.
The April 22 parliamentary election left Slovenia’s two major political blocs deadlocked: Jansa’s SDS and Golob’s Freedom Movement finished with nearly identical seat shares in the assembly. After weeks of negotiations, Golob ultimately failed to cobble together a viable liberal-led coalition, clearing the way for Jansa to step in and build his own right-wing government.
The latest electoral process has been mired in controversy from the start, with widespread allegations of foreign interference and corrupt campaign practices. The Alpine nation, which has a total voting population of just 1.7 million, remains deeply politically split between liberal and conservative factions, a divide that is expected to shape the new government’s term in office.
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Son of Mango boss arrested over father’s fatal fall from cliff
Catalan law enforcement officials have taken 43-year-old Jonathan Andic, son of deceased Mango founder Isak Andic, into custody as part of a reinvestigation into the 2024 death of the global fashion industry icon. The detainment, which took place at Andic’s residence shortly after 11 a.m. local time on Tuesday, marks a major new development in a case that was originally ruled an accidental death before being reopened amid inconsistencies in testimony.
Isak Andic, a 71-year-old Turkish-born business magnate who built Mango into one of the world’s largest fast fashion chains, lost his life in December 2024 after falling into a ravine during a hiking trip in the Montserrat mountain range outside Barcelona. Conflicting public reports have emerged over the years about who was present during the outing, with initial accounts placing only Isak and Jonathan together on the trail, while other claims note additional family members were in the area.
Shortly after the incident, Catalan investigators closed the case in early 2025, concluding their initial review found no evidence of criminal conduct connected to Isak’s death. But per reporting from Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia, authorities made the decision to reopen the probe later that year after identifying unresolved discrepancies in statements Jonathan Andic provided to investigators.
Jonathan Andic, who joined the Mango executive team in 2005, went on to lead the brand’s popular Mango Men menswear line before ascending to the position of vice-chairman of the company’s board of directors following his father’s death. He has repeatedly maintained that he bears no responsibility for the tycoon’s death. A representative for the Andic family confirmed to Reuters that Jonathan was undergoing formal police questioning following his detainment, and emphasized the family holds unwavering confidence that he will be cleared of any wrongdoing. Following his questioning, local reports indicate Andic was scheduled to appear before a judge in a Catalan court later the same day.
Isak Andic co-founded Mango in 1984 alongside his brother Nahman, launching the brand from its first Barcelona storefront into a global retail powerhouse. Today, the fashion chain operates nearly 3,000 retail locations across 120 countries around the world. At the time of his passing, Forbes calculated Isak Andic’s personal net worth at approximately $4.5 billion (equal to around £3.6 billion).
Following Isak’s death in 2024, Mango Chief Executive Officer Toni Ruiz released a statement honoring the brand’s founder, noting that his passing would leave an enormous gap across the company. “All of us are, in some way, his legacy and the testimony of his achievements,” Ruiz said at the time. “It is up to us, and this is the best tribute we can make to Isak and which we will fulfil, to ensure that Mango continues to be the project that Isak aspired to and of which he would feel proud.”