Los Mossos d’Esquadra have been working for some time to address the resurgence of the Latin gang phenomenon in Madrid and Barcelona. Unlike the Latin Kings and Ñetas who dominated youth crime news in the 2000s, we are now talking about the Trinitarios, Barrio 18, and the 300 who fight over public spaces and are now in the news because they recruit minors at the doors of secondary schools.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has no doubt that the parents detained by the Mossos d’Esquadra abused their baby and has requested that both remain in provisional detention. This was made clear during the hearing held before the third section of the Barcelona Court of Appeal to review the appeal filed by the parents against their imprisonment. The prosecutors of the Specialized Service for the Protection of Vulnerable Persons, Félix Martín and Elisabet Jiménez, detailed before the court the evidence gathered during the investigation that points directly to the parents. “The indications are unequivocal,” they stated in a closed session.
Last week, the leadership of the Mossos d’Esquadra requested the heads of the police regions to intensify the actions of the Daga plan, which prioritizes the removal of bladed weapons. After the tragic last weekend, with two stabbing deaths, a 41-year-old woman in Esplugues and a 24-year-old young man hours later in Barcelona, and several clashes with injuries in which machetes were used, the commanders of the Catalan police again requested yesterday to strengthen actions throughout the public space.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra suspect that the perpetrator of the Esplugues crime was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time of committing the acts. This has been confirmed by the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, in an interview on RAC1, in which she also denied that the action had a terrorist motivation. “A priori, the detainee is a person who was in an altered state and probably has some kind of problem that has nothing to do with jihadism,” she stated. The Mossos have not found any neighbor who heard the arrested person utter jihadist slogans. For this reason, for now, the investigation has fallen to the Esplugues Investigation Unit and has not been transferred to the Central Information Unit, which is responsible for matters related to terrorism.
A cargo ship with a massive shipment of cocaine has been intercepted on the high seas and docked at the naval base the Duque de Ahumada ship of the Civil Guard this Sunday. The vessel, according to sources familiar with the investigations cited by El País, could amount to tens of tons of this substance and would reach record figures, although its weighing is still pending.
A 39-year-old man has been arrested in Austria as the alleged perpetrator of extortion against the German baby food manufacturer HiPP, which has kept Central Europe on edge for several weeks, several local media reported this Saturday.
Rosa Peral has been transferred from prison for the sixth time as nine years pass since the crime of the Guardia Urbana in which she killed her boyfriend, Pedro Rodríguez, along with her lover, Albert López. During this time, Peral has been involved in multiple conflicts that have resulted in sanctions, disciplinary proceedings, and the opening of up to three new criminal cases. The penitentiary itinerary of the former urban guard is as follows: Wad-Ras, Brians 1, Mas d’Enric, Wad-Ras, Brians 1, Mas d’Enric and, now, again, Brians 1.
A Louisiana father shot and killed eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family Sunday morning that spanned two homes in a Shreveport neighborhood shocked by one of the country’s deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said. Two women, including the attacker’s wife —the children’s mother—, were also seriously injured, according to Chris Bordelon, a spokesperson for the Shreveport Police Department. Authorities noted that the children —all killed in the same house— were between 3 and 11 years old. The attacker, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, died after a police chase that ended when officers opened fire on him, according to Bordelon.
A gunman killed eight children in Louisiana in several domestic violence-related shootings that occurred in different homes early Sunday morning, Shreveport police reported. The victims were between one and 14 years old, said Shreveport police spokesman Chris Bordelon. A total of ten people were wounded by gunfire. The gunman later died after a pursuit with officers who shot him, Bordelon explained.