Club Guide 2014. We're just weeks away and it's time to round up the line ups and the opening parties. Diaries at the ready P8-9 Ibiza Cric ket plus F1, Jezza and all the sport. Bac k page.
Koningsdag Special. We've gone double Dutch to celebrate Holland's Kings Day. P4-5
Robin Hood Merry Den in his
Enric Duran is known as the Robin Hood of the banks. He took out loans of half a million euros with no intention of ever paying them back. Instead, he gave the money to projects that created and promoted alternatives to capitalism. After 14 months in hiding, Duran is unapologetic even though his activities could land him in jail. Speaking to the Guardian this week via Skype from he secret location, he remained unrepentant. "I'm proud of this action. It generated a movement that allowed us to push forward with the construction of alternatives. And it allowed us to
build a powerful network that groups together these initiatives." From 2006 to 2008, Duran took out 68 commercial and personal loans from 39 banks in Spain. "I saw that on one side, these social movements were building alternatives but that they lacked resources and communication capacities," he said. "Meanwhile, our reliance on perpetual growth was creating a system that created money out of nothing." The loans he swindled from banks were his way of regulating and denouncing this situation. He started
slowly. "I filled out a few credit applications with my real details. They denied me, but I just wanted to get a feel for what they were asking for." From there, the former table tennis coach began to weave an intricate web of accounts, payments and transfers. "I was learning constantly." By the summer of 2007, he had discovered how to make the system work, applying for loans under the name of a false television production company. "Then I managed to get a lot." €492,000 to be ex(Continúa en la página 2)