NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ROALD HOFFMANN IN ORIHUELA

Roald Hoffmann, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981, and professor at Cornell University in New York, visited Orihuela on Friday where he met the mayor and many of the city’s councillors.

Hoffmann also visited the Miguel Hernández Museum and the Santo Domingo school after which he went to the Marqués de Arneva Palace, the seat of the City Council, where he signed the Book of Honours.

The Nobel Prize winner came to Orihuela to present the translation of his collection of poems "Los hombres y las moleculas", with which the Department of Education collaborated.

Hoffmann was also able to visit the Jesús Carnicer

Science Didactic Museum and the campus of the Higher Polytechnic School of Orihuela (EPSO).

The mayor said that she has obtained 100 copies of Hoffmann's collection of poems that will be distributed by local schools.

Roald Hoffman received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981 for his work applying quantum mechanical theories to predict the course of chemical reactions. In the text that he wrote in the Book of Honors, he has thanked "the people for their hospitality, in a city so full of history."

He also thanked the Council for it’s support with the publication of the translation of his collection of poems.

SYSTEM CHANGED

The system used by the Local Police to process and track fines has now been changed as, at the time of the offence, there were no security measures in place to monitor traceability

Anow retired former inspector of the Torrevieja Local Police force has been sentenced to eight and a half months in prison after he cancelled a traffic ticket from a friend.

The acquaintance who was fined, and who never received his 200 euro penalty, has also been sentenced to seven and a half months in prison in addition to the 200 euro fine and all legal costs.

During the more than nine years that has elapsed since the complaint was registered, in April 2013, the agent who reported the offence has had to leave the Local Police staff due to the alleged pressures that he received from the accused officer and from other agents.

In the last six months the courts have sentenced four officers from Torrevieja Local Police for improper actions in the exercise of their duties.

Last June one agent was sentenced for document falsification to a 90 day period of suspension of employment and salary, for issuing fines to a hotelier with whom he had a personal dispute, whilst using the identification of another agent.

In July 2022, the Court sentenced two other local police officers from Torrevieja to five years and three years and six months in prison for taking money from commercial establishments to avoid being penalised with administrative fines.

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