A man was shot dead this Saturday afternoon with a gunshot to the head while he was on Mineria street in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. The victim had a record for public health. A first citizen security police officer from the Mossos d’Esquadra, with the help of several passersby, tried to revive the man without success.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested three Canadian police officers accused of sexually assaulting a woman inside a taxi in Barcelona. According to RAC1, it happened on Wednesday in the Ciutadella area.
The Jury Court of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has found a man guilty of murder who killed his ex-mother-in-law by kicking and beating her in Mallorca, a 74-year-old woman. The Jury has unanimously considered that the defendant is the author of a crime of murder with cruelty and treachery, against a particularly vulnerable victim. The members of the Jury also recognize the aggravating factor of gender.
Within the bad, the best has happened to them. This is the feeling conveyed this morning, after the sentence was announced, by the lawyers of the couple judged in Oviedo for having held their children captive for three and a half years in a remote chalet dubbed “the house of horrors.”
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.