The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a woman for killing her partner in Salt, in the region of Gironès. The arrest took place this afternoon, around 4 p.m., when the woman, 31, presented herself at the police station to confess that she had killed the man with whom she had a romantic relationship. Immediately after, the police went to the home and found the man's body in the garage.

A police officer at school to complete the staff. It's just an experiment, they say. When I read it, I couldn't believe it. It seems a contradiction in terms: school as the main place for education and socialization should have basic shared values: what is happening that in an open and democratic society those in power can have a joke like this? At school you go to learn, to socialize, to enter the relational logic of society, to acquire skills to find your place in the world, to build relationships naturally, to grow up. And this requires a space of trust, recognition, and the construction of a framework for coexistence based on the development of each person's personality, which allows us to learn from the contradictions and complexity of human societies.

What is the difference between a teacher and a police officer? The delinquent that the police officer has arrested to bring before a judge is already relatively late in life. The teacher still has time to welcome the minor to school and teach them how to live differently. Between the police officer and the teacher, there is a very diverse imaginary: the police officer protects citizens from other citizens who break the law. Imagine what can be done to prevent the crime from happening again. Order and safety depend on him. On the other hand, the teacher does not see crimes but errors, mistreatment, problems at home. He must love the child to defend him beyond mere survival and show him another path. For the police officer, it is about applying the full weight of the law, penalizing conduct that breaks it. The paths of the police officer and the teacher to protect the child are radically different. The first protects others from their behavior; the second protects them from themselves.

The family of a minor child has filed a second complaint for sexual violence against a janitor at the Doctor Fortià i Solà school in Torelló. On April 21, another family had already filed a complaint against the same school worker for sexual assault. After this, the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested the janitor, who was brought before the court in Vic and is currently released on bail.

I admit that when I first heard the rumor that someone wanted to introduce plainclothes police officers into classrooms, I immediately thought it was some bizarre far-right proposal. One of those that offer easy remedies to complicated problems and that inevitably become false solutions. Those so tempting and noisy ones, which last as long as a lollipop in the playground, but which in reality are gaining ground and making a national priority. I suppose that's what I wanted – what I needed – to believe. But no. With a lump in my throat, it turns out to be a governmental proposal with official backing that supposedly started Monday in thirteen educational centers. Plainclothes police officers inside our schools with a supposed preventive character: that's where we are. The unease is preventively infinite – like a solemn failure, like an undeniable defeat, like a complete renunciation–. The mere imagined image of a plainclothes officer rummaging through students' lives completely unsettles, destroys the foundations of democratic schooling, and recreates a degrading imaginary of an education subjected to police criteria of safety, surveillance, and control. Looked at from any angle, a sacrilegious absurdity. These are not times for naivety, but one believed, after a resounding general strike by teachers, as democratic as it was historical, that the response would be different, in line with the accumulated demands of the sector and following the broad social support shown in the streets by teachers from all over the country. Fewer class sizes; more pedagogical resources; better conditions; more counselors and more professionals in all areas – from integration assistants to intercultural mediators, from support staff to psychopedagogues, from speech therapists to psychologists–. Nowhere was any police presence requested – and if you pass by any public school you will see a thousand protest banners of all colors, but not a single one demanding police presence–. What is still demanded is more time dedicated to each student in training, to each life under construction, through greater community, social, and neighborhood involvement, and socially addressing the enormous difficulties in centers of high complexity. Resolving in a completely opposite direction and choosing to put police first to explain to young people how adult life works out there is, simultaneously, infantilizing adults and adulterating children. And it is discrediting the teacher, to whom we entrust the education of our daughters and sons, by exchanging moral authority for disciplinary authority. And it is also stigmatizing, center by center, social inequalities where poverty and social segregation hit hardest. And it is banishing inwards, when the war rumbles so loudly outside, the indispensable promotion of a culture of peace, disregarding the immense efforts and enormous accumulated experience in mediation, management, and transformative resolution of all conflict.At this impossible crossroads is when we must ask ourselves how on earth we have arrived here –and why and why now– and try to find out if it is all a weather balloon, a smokescreen, or a ceremony of confusion. And we don't know –it still escapes us–. It is known –form and substance– how it has been promoted: with opaque stealth and without any debate with the educational community. And we also know how we have known it: through journalistic information. Two more reasons to immediately suspend –radical defect in form– the application of the pilot plan. Unfortunately, this way of doing things fits too well with how the wet paper agreement has been signed with two majority unions that in education have been left in absolute minority and have received, in a democratic consultation, the unanimous rejection of general amendment from those they claim to represent.

Esmeralda has been taking her children to the Eugeni d'Ors institute in Hospitalet de Llobregat for 25 years, one of the centers that will integrate an undercover police officer as part of the pilot plan that the Government wants to test in 13 schools and institutes to "improve coexistence". Through her children, she has seen how the atmosphere of the center has changed over the last two decades. It is Monday, a few minutes before half past one, and she waits while waiting for Aliana, the youngest, to come out in La Sènia square, which at this hour is almost deserted. In a few minutes, the hustle and bustle invades the street: hundreds of teenagers leave – in a rather disorderly manner – through a single door.

Wednesday was the Day of the Squads, the coming-out day for the Catalan police and an occasion when the heads of the Mossos d'Esquadra take stock and share future security challenges in a packed auditorium of officers. Chief Commissioner Miquel Esquius mentioned drug trafficking and extremism as the main challenges for the country. But he also highlighted a third element that has been the focus of the leadership for months: youth violence.

A man has been critically injured in a shooting in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. The firearms incident took place this Friday night, shortly before 9:45 PM. According to police sources, one man approached another and shot him several times. The victim was very seriously injured and was taken to a hospital. The Mossos d'Esquadra have opened an investigation and are searching for the gunman. Given how the incident unfolded, everything points to an attempted execution in broad daylight.

A man has been critically injured in a shooting in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. The firearm incident took place this Friday night, shortly before 9:45 PM. According to police sources, one man approached another and shot him several times. The victim was seriously injured and has been taken to a hospital. The Mossos d'Esquadra have opened an investigation and are searching for the gunman.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating a case of sexual violence in a school in Torelló, in the Osona region. The child's parents filed the complaint this Tuesday, April 21. Specifically, according to sources consulted by ARA, the person being investigated is a worker at the center who is not part of the teaching staff. The complaint would be for a sexual assault on a minor.

The pilot plan to place an undercover police officer in thirteen educational centers in Catalonia continues to generate controversy. While awaiting an official presentation of the plan, teachers –both those who will experience this trial in their center and those who will not– are receiving information piecemeal, despite the measure set to be implemented this very Monday.

The pilot plan of the Mossos d'Esquadra to introduce plainclothes officers in schools has a distant precedent. Beyond the data highlighted by the OECD – one in every two developed countries has similar cooperation programs between schools and authority agents "for preventive and community purposes" –, the United Kingdom began to do so shortly after the post-war period (1949, in Liverpool) with contact sessions with young people. But the most recognizable figure of agents in schools —school liaison officers— consolidated from the sixties. And the massive deployment arrived, especially, in the 2000s, under the governments of Tony Blair, with the safer school partnerships. As part of this initiative, officers —safer school officers— were assigned to specific schools, especially in vulnerable or considered problematic urban areas. In many cases, they worked physically within the schools, with an office, regular presence, and participation in the school's daily life, and also, occasionally, in the weekly and traditional assembly, the meeting of all students and staff, as a moment of reflection to strengthen the community. Usually, the officers were in uniform, as their role combined prevention and visibility.

Catalonia will test a new strategy to address coexistence problems in some schools and institutes: Mossos d'Esquadra officers will be deployed undercover in various educational centers. The move is part of a pilot plan that will be activated this April in thirteen centers to test a new collaboration model between the departments of Education and Interior, as reported by El País and confirmed by ARA.

35% of Mossos d'Esquadra agents suffer from depressive symptomatology, 39% from stress, and 36% from anxiety. This is one of the main conclusions of a study conducted by the Universitat Ramon Llull, which has been published by the scientific journal Frontiers in psychiatry. Apparently, it might seem that the critical situations that agents must face on the street could be a significant trigger for mental health issues, but the study reveals that internal factors such as lack of institutional support or bureaucracy have an even greater impact.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the discovery of a body floating in the La Baells reservoir, in the Berguedà region. This Wednesday morning, a witness thought they saw a wrapped body floating in the water and called the emergency number 112. The Catalan police went to the reservoir and confirmed it was a lifeless body, as reported by Regió 7 and confirmed by ARA.

The contact is quick and you have to be attentive not to miss anything. One guy approaches another and they exchange a few words. Sitting on a terrace to disguise himself and at a prudent distance, it's impossible to know what they're saying, but it can be interpreted. One gives some coins to the other. At that moment, the seller takes something out of his pocket and hands over, one by one, small things, as if they were coins, to the buyer's hands. The customer has already paid and after this exchange they separate with the satisfaction of having done it quickly, without anyone having seen them. But some plainclothes police officers appear and arrest them. The buyer is carrying several Lyrica pills in his pocket. The seller ends up arrested for a crime against public health.

The objective was to kill him. Three people walked up to a man who was on a terrace with his wife and his son, who was resting in a stroller. Suddenly, they opened fire with a pistol. Neighbors heard five shots. One of the bullets hit him in the neck. A ricocheting bullet grazed a pedestrian passing on the other side of the street, although it did not cause serious injuries. The woman and the child were unharmed. Afterward, when the target of the attack was already lying on the ground, badly wounded, they also attacked him with a bladed weapon. Once they finished the attempted execution, they fled, also on foot, in the direction of the sea.

The Bon Pastor neighborhood of Barcelona is still in shock over a crime that shook the community five days ago. En Pepe, a man with mobility and respiratory problems, allegedly stabbed a young man who had stolen a chain from him, and the thief ended up dying. The man has already been taken into provisional prison, a judicial decision that has outraged part of the neighborhood, which justifies it as self-defense and denounces that En Pepe is in a delicate state of health.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) are investigating the violent death of a 37-year-old man last night in Badalona. According to sources consulted by ARA, the man died in a shooting inside a music bar in the city. Around 1:00 a.m., the Catalan police received a call reporting a person seriously injured in a bar. Officers went to the scene along with an ambulance, and although paramedics attempted to resuscitate the man, they were unable to save his life. The confrontation took place inside the A8 nightclub, located at number 89 on Sant Lluc Street, in the Badalona Sud industrial park. The establishment is run by Chinese nationals with a history of involvement in fights and drug trafficking.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are practically convinced that the death of James Gracey, The 20-year-old American man who disappeared on Wednesday in BarcelonaIt was accidental. Catalan police found his lifeless body submerged in the sea on Thursday afternoon after a day of searching. Now, police have found security camera footage that recorded the young man walking erratically at the end of Somorrostro beach, on a concrete surface marking the beginning of the Olympic Port, next to the sea. The cameras show that the young man was alone and accidentally fell into the sea.