He operated from the Quatre Camins prison cell. Through various clandestine mobile phones, he communicated with his family. From home, his eldest daughter made videos loading and handling shotguns and revolvers. The man, from prison, distributed these videos to potential arms buyers, linked to organized crime and drug trafficking, and managed the sales.

Between January and June of this year, Barcelona has been the scene of 74,350 crimes and 17,359 arrests. This is 11.2% fewer crimes and a 6.7% reduction in arrests compared to the same dates last year. Therefore, crimes are generally decreasing and are sinking to the level of a decade ago, but nevertheless, the data from the latest barometer place crime as the second concern for Barcelona residents, only behind housing. This is the main conclusion of the latest Barcelona Security Board, which this morning made public the data on conflict in the Catalan capital.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the violent death of a 75-year-old woman found last night in Soses, in Segrià.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have found the bodies of two eleven-year-old children lifeless in the Ter river, in Manlleu. As reported by El Caso and confirmed by police sources to ARA, this Monday a family alerted the police that their two eleven-year-old twin sons had gone to play football and by one in the morning they had not yet returned home. The same sources detail that the twins used to always go to play football on a sports court near home and returned around nine in the evening, but yesterday morning they had not yet returned and the local police were alerted.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating a new crime in Catalonia. A young man died stabbed this Thursday morning in Cubelles, in the Garraf region. The events took place around 11 a.m. near the town's cemetery. According to police sources, the Mossos have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of the crime. The body was found lying on the sidewalk next to the cemetery car park.

A month ago, on June 3rd, the body of a woman appeared floating in the Segre River near Lleida. According to sources consulted by this newspaper, her death is being investigated as a criminal death. That is, as a homicide. After weeks trying to identify the victim, the Mossos d'Esquadra finally decided this Thursday morning to make public an image of the woman generated with artificial intelligence and to ask for citizen collaboration.

It was early morning, around five o'clock, and the truck of the German heavy metal band Accept was returning from performing at Santa Coloma de Gramenet, as part of the Barcelona Rock Fest festival, and was heading towards Germany. The driver stopped at a rest area on the AP-7, near Llinars del Vallès, to handle some bureaucratic matters. According to the festival, four men armed with iron bars tried to steal everything they could. One of them even tried to enter the driver's cabin, which he did not succeed in doing. According to police sources, the Mossos d'Esquadra have already opened an investigation.

They called themselves Los 300, but there were many fewer. They posted videos singing songs about the strength of their group, lyrics that also sought to attract new members. They also published images of fights, assaults, weapons, and the symbolism that united them. They met in the squares and parks of Sant Martí, Sant Andreu, or Nou Barris, first to commit anti-social acts, but, over time, the level of violence increased, to the point of committing assaults with machetes or swords. They also dealt drugs to finance themselves as a group, imposing rules and tests to become one of them and recruiting minors to turn them into their executioners. Over the months, they became a youth gang, one of the most active in Barcelona.

It was a few minutes before six in the morning when some residents of Ferran Puig street, in the Putxet neighborhood of Barcelona, heard at least three detonations. At 5:52 a.m., the first call came into the 112 emergency number reporting a possible shooting at this point in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, next to Parc del Turó del Putxet.

Plot twist in the case of the August 2024 events, after the dismissal was ordered. The Barcelona Court has now brought the three Mossos d'Esquadra investigated for collaborating in the escape of the former President of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, to the verge of trial, following his brief return to Barcelona on August 8, 2024, for Salvador Illa's investiture as president. Specifically, the court has opted for this path given indications that, in its opinion, corroborate that they omitted their duty to pursue crimes.

The death of Isak Andic is not a usual police and judicial investigation. And it is not so because the account of the Mossos, the prosecutor, and the judge of Martorell is built on circumstantial evidence. These indications range from the behavior of his son and sole investigated person, Jonathan Andic, in the days before the events, to the messages between father and son, the contradictions in the investigated person's statements, the analysis of the deceased's autopsy, and also the study of how the fall of the Mango founder occurred and the marks it left on the ground.

They were months of total secrecy. Only a few people within the Mossos d'Esquadra knew that the death of the owner of Mango, Isak Andic, on December 14, 2024, was not being investigated as an accident; that they believed it could be a homicide, and that they suspected his son Jonathan. In fact, they even tapped the phone of the eldest son of the Andics for a season, but the measure did not yield results and the police opted to confiscate his phone. After a few months, on May 19, Jonathan Andic was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of his father's death; an action that only a few in Mossos also knew about in advance.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a 41-year-old woman in Sant Salvador de Guardiola (Bages) as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of her partner, a 46-year-old man. The events occurred in February in Manresa. A man was admitted to the hospital and ended up dying. Initially, no obvious signs of criminality were found on his body, but the investigation has taken a turn.

Dentists without a degree, rusty metal instruments that they later inserted into the mouth and expired or non-approved medications. Clients with oral infections. All this happened in two fraudulent dental clinics in Olesa de Montserrat and Esplugues de Llobregat, which have already been sealed by the police and closed by the judicial authority. On June 17, the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested five people between 32 and 60 years old as alleged perpetrators of crimes of identity theft, fraud, professional intrusion, and assault. These would be four fake dentists and a clinic owner.

Which city would top a ranking of the world's major cities with the fewest homicides? And in what position would Barcelona appear? The fact that nine murders have occurred in six months has generated insecurity – especially for residents living near the scenes of the crimes – and criticism from the opposition, both in the Generalitat and the municipal government. As this newspaper has learned, the same number of crimes have been committed in Barcelona in six months as in the whole of last year, and the vast majority are linked to organized crime – such as the execution on Carrer Balmes – and clan disputes.

Up to 78 burglaries in houses and, in addition, five set on fire. This is what is attributed to two young men who in the autumn of 2024 alerted the Horta de Lleida, an area separate from the city. Finally, after arresting the first person involved in July 2025, the Mossos d'Esquadra have managed to arrest the alleged second perpetrator of the acts, a 24-year-old man with a dozen police records. The arrest, however, was not easy.

He was a white-skinned man, bald, with several tattoos all over his body and dressed in sportswear, with a Barça jersey and bermuda shorts. He was dead, lying on the ground on Balmes street, in front of a police station. He had been shot in the head. The police station cameras showed the whole scene: another white-skinned man, dressed in a beige t-shirt and bermuda shorts, with a helmet in one hand and a pistol in the other, had approached him and shot him in the back. Who was the victim? This is one of the first questions the investigators from the Mossos d'Esquadra asked themselves as they searched for the perpetrator, who left the weapon, the helmet, and a mobile phone at a bus stop in Gal·la Placídia and fled.

Jonathan Andic has been defending himself since the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested him as the alleged perpetrator of his father's death. Judicially, by filing a technical and extensive appeal that denies the evidence incriminating him to try to have the restrictive measures currently against him lifted, such as the passport withdrawal or the one million euro bail with which he has managed to avoid going to prison. But also, in the media, trying to reverse the "social condemnation" that his defense claims he suffered when he was arrested. Nevertheless, the judge, the Mossos, and the prosecutor in the case are all heading in the same direction: they believe there are sufficient grounds to indict him.

Barcelona has experienced a tense afternoon due to a clash between two opposing demonstrations. The Mossos d'Esquadra have dispersed with baton blows several anti-fascist demonstrators who wanted to overcome a police cordon separating them from another concentration of the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional, in front of the Spanish government's delegation in Catalonia.

Three people have died this Saturday in a few minutes and in different parts of Catalonia while doing outdoor activities, as reported by the security forces of the Generalitat in a statement. It is an eighteen-year-old boy who drowned while bathing in the Llobregat river, in Berguedà; an elderly man who had done a scuba dive in Cadaqués, and a third person who died after falling down a mountain ravine in the port of Medacorba, in Pallars Sobirà.