On December 14, 2021, a former employee of the company Securitas in Tarragona entered his former workplace armed and wounded three former colleagues. During his escape, he also shot and wounded a Mossos d'Esquadra officer and finally barricaded himself in a farmhouse in Riudoms (Baix Camp), where the police force's elite unit shot him down. The shooting left Marin Eugen Sabau with serious injuries, which after several judicial appeals ended up receiving euthanasia that he/she was asking for. With his death, the case against him was closed, but another one was still underway in which the eleven officers who neutralized the gunman were being investigated for injuries. Now the instructor of this case has prosecuted two agents of the Special Intervention Group (GEI) who shot him in an action he describes as "uncontrolled, disproportionate and with a purpose that could go beyond neutralizing Sabau, which was to riddle his physical integrity".

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the discovery of a dead baby inside a plastic bag, in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelonès), as reported by Metròpoli and confirmed by ARA. The events took place this Wednesday at noon when a person alerted to the presence of a plastic bag with blood on the landing of a stairwell in an apartment block on Llevant street, in the La Mina neighborhood. After 5 PM, the Catalan police continue to ask from apartment to apartment and in nearby shops to try to clarify the events.

The judge ordered this Wednesday evening the internment in a closed regime for the two minors arrested for the violent death of a man in Manresa. For one of the adolescents, in addition, therapeutic treatment has been decreed. Both are charged with a crime of homicide. The juvenile prosecutor had already requested this afternoon as a precautionary measure the admission of the two arrested individuals.

The formula was always the same: simulate an emergency to ask for financial help, assuring he would return it with a transfer. In reality, it was always a lie disguised as a theft of documentation or money and a fake bank transfer document. In less than a year, a 20-year-old man obtained 13,000 euros from good-faith pedestrians who wanted to lend him a hand. The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested him last week, accusing him of eight scams and robbery with force.

"When I leave there, my political career has been scorched," comments Manel Prat about his time as director general of the police. From 2011 to 2014, he held this position, at a time he admits was "socially turbulent," but "not as much" as that of his successors with the arrival of the Catalan independence process (Procés). Prat arrived young at the Generalitat, as head of institutional relations for the Department of Health in 2002 and later as chief of staff for Felip Puig, who, when he was Minister of the Interior, trusted him with one of the Government's most delicate portfolios, that of directing the Mossos (Catalan police). "You know where you're putting yourself and you do it with the utmost dignity," he explains.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating a brutal group assault suffered on August 12 by a 21-year-old Italian national in the Fòrum park area, between Barcelona and Sant Adrià de Besòs. As reported by La Vanguardia, the events took place at the exit of a nightclub. The Catalan police received notification of the events around 10:25 PM and the Badalona investigation unit has taken charge of the case.

A refrigerated van was circulating on the AP-7, at the height of Girona. The Mossos decided to stop it and, inside, they found 14 puppies of various breeds, such as cavapoo, cavalier, maltipoo or teckel. Where did the dogs come from? From Slovakia. And where were they going? To a zoo in Empordà that, surprisingly, no longer exists. Furthermore, the puppies were about 10 weeks old — below the minimum legal age permitted for import, set at 15 weeks — and also did not meet the sanitary requirements. The animals were transferred to a shelter and the driver ended up arrested.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a 33-year-old man accused of assaulting a 13-year-old minor with a bladed weapon in Puigcerdà. According to police sources, the assault occurred around 9 PM this Wednesday next to a stream, in the area of the Cucurú fountain, a natural space near the town, as reported by "The Case and ARA has confirmed it.

A resident of the Lloret Residencial urbanization opened the dumpster and saw a human arm sticking out. It was Friday and within minutes this spot in La Selva was swarming with police. Inside the dumpster was the body of a man with clear signs of violence. In fact, he had been shot.

Austria's Minister of Labour, Christine Aschbacher, had not planned to resign from her post until 48 hours earlier, when accusations of plagiarism surfaced on a blog by a professor commenting on her final thesis in 2021. Nor did French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux, who in 2017 had hired his daughters as parliamentary assistants during the summer, even though French law still allowed the hiring of relatives. Nor Peter Magnus Nilsson, who in 2023 resigned as chief of staff to the Swedish prime minister for fishing eels without a license and denying it to the authorities when discovered. The culture of resignation is widespread in Nordic and Central European countries and contrasts with the attitude taken by politicians in Southern Europe.A clear example of this resistance are the presidents of the Spanish government in a context where the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, remains in office despite the judicial cases surrounding his party and the constant demands for resignation from opposition parties, some of them until now parliamentary partners. Sánchez, however, is not the exception. While the United Kingdom, in ten years, has seen six prime ministers pass through number ten of Downing Street, in 51 years of Spanish democracy only the first Spanish president, Adolfo Suárez, resigned from his post.This same inertia is transferred to Catalan politicians. Precisely in recent months, the word "resignationin the mouths of the opposition parties and also from the teachers' collectives who are demonstrating against the Government: they have pointed out the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, and the director general of the Mossos, Josep Lluís Trapero, as well as the head of Education, Esther Niubó, from whom the opposition has demanded that she step down.now for the error in the PISA tests.

The Rome Prosecutor's Office is investigating the circumstances of the death of a young Italian in Barcelona after his family filed a complaint, as reported by various Italian media outlets such as la Repubblica. According to police sources consulted by ARA, the events date back to the afternoon of May 29 in the city center, at Portal de l'Àngel.

One of the most complicated moments of this year's fire season was last July 6, when the Generalitat Firefighters had to face a difficult scenario of simultaneity with two worrying fires in Carme, in Anoia, and in Sentmenat while they were still fighting the flames in La Bisbal d'Empordà. The Anoia fire burned more than 450 hectares of forest and agricultural land, affected businesses and homes, and required the confinement of seven nearby municipalities and the evacuation of a housing development. Help was even requested from the Military Emergencies Unit (UME). This Thursday it has become known how the first spark of this fire was lit, and it was not an accident.

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.