Second arrest in a few hours for Blocus in Catalonia. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a 17-year-old boy for having organized and coordinated the acts of vandalism that took place in Barcelona last Saturday. Specifically, he is accused of having an active role in an instant messaging channel that was used to organize the disturbances.

"It didn't take us by surprise, the facts deny it." With these words, the Director General of Police, Ferran López, has denied that the Mossos d'Esquadra did not expect the riots on Saturday in Barcelona. The demonstration had a level 2 out of 3 rating and, as this newspaper has already been explaining, they carried out 300 checks on young people before the gathering and also confiscated hammers, pyrotechnics, sprays, stones, and balaclavas. There had already been some 'Blocus'-style demonstrations before, one in Manresa, for example, without incidents. But the police were indeed surprised by the violence of the young people. "We did not correctly gauge the level of violence, we had never seen it before," admitted López before an opposition that criticized the Mossos for not sufficiently anticipating this scenario, to the point that Junts has requested the resignation of Minister Parlon.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the homicide of a woman in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. A man turned himself in this Wednesday to the Municipal Police of Madrid as the alleged perpetrator of this crime. According to sources consulted by ARA, the victim and the detained man were a couple. As reported by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia, there are no prior judicial records between the two.

How to stop the domino effect of Telegram channels and social media accounts calling for new riots of the Blocus style, as seen on Saturday in Barcelona, is currently one of the main concerns of the Mossos d'Esquadra. Doing so by requesting a court order is a process that can be slow, and platforms often have slow rhythms as well. For this reason, as ARA has learned, the Catalan police have requested help from CITCO, the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime, which depends on the Ministry of the Interior.

Adif is struggling to keep up with copper thieves. The state-owned company, which manages the Catalan railway network, is facing serious logistical difficulties in finding the copper cable needed to replace all the material stolen from it in recent months. As ARA has learned, this year's flood of thefts, which exceeds all records to date, has pushed the company's reserve stocks to the limit, and it is now scrambling to cover all the needs required by the network and keep the system running.

Barcelona was one of the major European cities that had not yet been affected by the wave of violent protests that have been taking place in Europe for days, especially in France and Italy. Until this Saturday afternoon. About 500 young people, many of them minors, gathered in Plaça de Catalunya, alerted through social media and following the trail of unrest seen in other cities to express their rejection of the system. Without any clear slogan or banners, their attire—practically all in black or dark clothing and with hoods—already very much resembled the protests seen in other cities. And the riots did not take long to arrive.

They would come to Catalonia, arrive at a wind farm, steal the copper from the turbines, and flee the country quickly. This was the method of a criminal group dismantled by the Mossos d'Esquadra with four arrests of people between 32 and 41 years old who had allegedly committed twelve robberies, eight of which were in the regions of Tarragona and Lleida —the remaining ones were in the Valencian Community and Aragon—. The head of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of Camp de Tarragona, Marc Bayón, expressed surprise because none of the four detainees had a criminal record in the country and added that it had been "very difficult to tackle" this gang coming from Eastern Europe. Three of the four detainees have already been remanded in custody.

"We cannot wait for more things to happen to take action." With these words, the chief commissioner of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Sílvia Catà, summarizes what is happening with youth gangs in Catalonia: they are smaller groups than in the 2000s, much more heterogeneous and flexible, with less presence than back then, but they exist. And, for the first time, the Catalan police are providing figures on the phenomenon. According to the Mossos d'Esquadra's calculations, there are a thousand young people in the orbit of these gangs and approximately half can be directly classified as members. This data is the result of months of research, with more than 600 diverse sources consulted, ranging from a police report of an incident to an informant. All of this has led the Mossos to create the Proa, a specific plan to fight against youth gangs. This Thursday it was presented within the force and it will be launched in November.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested two boys aged 19 and 20 as the alleged perpetrators of the robberies against minors that had put the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district on alert in recent days. The alarm was mainly raised after they held up and assaulted a group of teenagers in the early hours of October 10th at the intersection of Bertrand i Serra and Torras i Pujalt streets with a fake gun. According to police sources, the youths explained that the assailants stole various personal items from them, including mobile phones, clothing, and footwear.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested two young men, aged 25 and 26, as the alleged perpetrators of the rape of a homeless woman in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. According to sources consulted by ARA, they were arrested for entering the tent where the victim was sleeping and forcing her between the two of them. The men were remanded in custody this Monday, accused of sexual assault and robbery in an inhabited house.

The crime scene is the Parc de les Planes, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. On March 28, two groups argued and the confrontation ended in gunfire, with a 28-year-old man dead and another young man wounded. In another case, the crime scene is once again a park, the Pegaso park in Barcelona. On July 4 a 15-year-old boy who was with his little brother at this point in the Sant Andreu district was shot to death. What these two incidents have in common is that all the detainees –three youths in the first case and also three youths in the second– were linked to youth gangs.

One at four in the morning and the other at eight in the morning. The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating two possible cases of men kidnapped by force in the country. As ARA has learned, one occurred in Santa Coloma de Gramenet and the victim has not yet appeared. The other took place in Fontanals de Cerdanya and, in this case, the man has been located injured.

A man was shot dead this Friday afternoon in a tattoo parlor in Badalona, according to sources consulted by ARA. The Mossos d'Esquadra are at the scene and have opened an investigation.

Half a million euros a day, more than 20,000 euros every hour, more than 300 euros every minute. This is the amount of money that cyber scams have taken from Catalans since 2024. It is 490 million euros in two and a half years divided into 80,000 annual reports until August of this year. With these figures, cyber scams are already the second most reported crime in the country, and this is despite the fact that the Mossos d'Esquadra warn that the dark figure – the citizens who suffer these frauds and do not report them to the police – is extremely high. In recent years, cyber scams have affected more than 200,000 people and the victims who lose the most money are the oldest: those over 65 have an average of more than 4,000 euros stolen from them, while in the 18 to 30 age group, the figure does not reach a thousand euros.

The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested three people this Tuesday allegedly involved in the deadly assault on a man early Monday morning in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. However, the investigation is by no means closed yet, as witnesses speak of a group of between six and eight people who attacked a man in the middle of the street. Therefore, the Mossos are still looking for more suspects.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the violent death of a young man early this morning in the Roquetes neighborhood, in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. The first calls from witnesses arrived around two in the morning, warning that a young man was lying on the ground in the middle of Romaní street, approximately at number 12.

Eight tons of hashish are worth approximately 16.2 million euros on the illegal market. And this entire hoard of drugs was hidden in an industrial warehouse in a small municipality in the Alt Empordà, in Cabanes. The Mossos d'Esquadra discovered it on October 1st and it has been an intervention that has quickly become one of the most significant regarding drug trafficking this year: in 2026, 15 tons of this drug have been seized, and more than half come from this operation.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested three young men for their alleged connection to the shooting death of another 28-year-old man on March 28 at the Parc de les Planes in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. The arrests were made this Tuesday in the same city, and the three arrested youths are 18, 19, and 29 years old. One of them was a minor at the time of the events, according to police sources. In this same shooting, another young man was seriously injured.

Just before the burst of gunfire begins, the two agents, who are not in uniform, repeatedly shout "Guardia Civil, Guardia Civil" with their guns in their hands. A few meters away, a man half-hidden behind some cars gesticulates intensely, at one point raising his hands. Suddenly, another one appears on the scene, coming out of a building and firing, without asking and practically at point-blank range, at one of the two agents, who also respond with shots. One police officer is left lying on the ground while the other, after walking a few meters, also falls. There, they beat him with a stick, on his head and body, while the first man, the one who was initially behind the cars, insists: "Show me your badge, show me your badge". The police officer takes something out of his pocket, which cannot be perceived from the angle of view of the neighbor who is recording it all, and the man ends up stopping his companions to prevent them from continuing to assault the agent.

Two Civil Guard agents have been injured during a shooting in Terrassa. Sources consulted by ARA indicate that the agents were involved in a pursuit when the individuals they were following allegedly opened fire on them. At least one of the agents is reported to be in serious condition. Both officers have been taken to the hospital. This same night, the Mossos have arrested three people as the alleged perpetrators of the shots.