In his speech on the day of the Esquadres of the general police judicial commissariat, its head, Commissioner Ramón Chacón, admitted that the widespread improvement in the data on the dismantling of criminal organizations, arrests, and drug seizure operations was accompanied by an intensification of shootout revenge killings. Murders from behind, in broad daylight, which are increasingly frequent on our streets and that, overnight, national gangs adopt as if naturally to eliminate enemies.
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The latest firearm incident fitting that pattern occurred on Saturday at half past seven in the evening on Mineria Street, in the Marina neighborhood, just steps from the Zona Franca promenade. With the sidewalks packed with families enjoying a pleasant spring afternoon, a gunman approached his victim and practically emptied the magazine on the man, a 43-year-old Spaniard with a record for drug trafficking. At least one of the shots hit him in the head and, despite the attempts of a Mossos d’Esquadra citizen security officer to revive him through resuscitation maneuvers, the individual died right there, in the middle of a crowd that said they heard the shots like firecrackers, until they discovered the man lying face down in a large pool of blood.
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In that speech, Chacón warned how our streets have become the scene of confrontations. “These are wars between clans from other countries, where they kill each other, and it reaches us here. It has happened with the Swedes, the French, the Serbs, and the Turks. It is the effect of globalization. We can do nothing.”
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The Serbs are probably the ones taking the conflict the furthest, with more than 60 murders. There was already another war that claimed six deaths between 2016 and 2017 among Dominican gangs rooted in Baix Llobregat that clashed over an initial drug robbery incident that ended in an escalation of revenge, stopped by a complex investigation by the Mossos that allowed the Barcelona Court to sentence one of the instigators of the crimes to a revisable life sentence.
Operation Thrace allowed part of the Turkish mafia to be imprisoned and stopped an arms entry, and the Tek case helped dismantle the Serbian mafia centered in Belgrade with branches in Barcelona, Valencia, and Dubai. Investigations that impact the safety of the entire population.
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