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The rise in the number of research on nursing homes continues. The criminal investigations opened by the Prosecutor's Office for the management of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic now total 143, with 36 new proceedings having been opened in the last week. This was reported this Wednesday by the State Attorney General's Office, when accounting for updated data from the elderly centers as of May 5.

At the moment, the Community of Madrid and Catalonia continue to be the autonomous regions where the Public Ministry has initiated a greater number of proceedings.

In addition, there are about twenty criminal cases opened by different courts in Spain. Specifically, in the Community of Madrid there are six judicial proceedings; in Catalonia, two; in Castilla-La Mancha, a total of five; in Castilla y León they amount to four criminal cases initiated while in Extremadura and Galicia there is one case open in each autonomy, respectively.

For its part, 176 civil proceedings are also being processed at this time, mainly as government files and pre-trial proceedings, on the protection of the elderly. In this case, the information is being collected by the public prosecutor delegated for the protection and defense of the rights of people and the network of prosecutors specialized in the matter in the different provincial prosecutors' offices.

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