The trigger was a trivial matter. The argument started with a comment like "are you looking at me funny" and one of the involved parties left. But he returned with an electric scooter and shot at the group he had argued with. This happened a week ago in the Raval district of Barcelona. Two people ended up arrested and no one was injured. This is one of the cases that shows, according to police sources, that it is being detected how firearms are appearing more and more often in new contexts, situations that are not linked to organized crime or large drug mafias.

A member of the Military Emergencies Unit (UME) died this Sunday while participating in the operation to extinguish the fire declared on Monday in Las Peñas de Riglos (Huesca). According to the Efe agency, the man died as a result of a traffic accident during the work to put out the fire. The president of the government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, has conveyed his condolences to the lieutenant general of the UME, as reported by the Aragonese government.

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.

Two men from Granollers have been arrested in southern Paraguay accused of the murder of two people and the attempted homicide of a third, with whom they had arranged a supposed sale of gold, according to Efe. Paraguayan police explain that the murder occurred on Thursday, when the Catalans, a father and his son, drove the three Paraguayans to a house within a recreational park in the city of Encarnación, capital of the department of Itapúa, which borders Argentina.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man allegedly linked to the violent death of another person this Thursday in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. As the ARA has learned, around 12:40 PM, agents of the Guàrdia Urbana found a wounded and bloodied man leaving a residence. Despite his critical condition, he tried to grab a motorcycle but fell to the ground. At that moment, the agents alerted the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Emergency Medical System (SEM).

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.

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.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the discovery of a corpse in a container in the Lloret Blau urbanization, in Lloret de Mar. According to police sources, it is currently being investigated as a homicide, as the body shows evident signs of criminality. Although the victim has not yet been identified, it has been confirmed that it is a man. It is also not clear how long he has been dead.

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.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating a new homicide in Catalonia. A man has died from stab wounds this Wednesday evening on Manuel Fernández Márquez street, in the La Mina neighborhood of Sant Adrià de Besòs. For now, no one has been arrested.

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.

The Mossos are investigating the death of a man with a bladed weapon early this morning on the Passeig Marítim in Barceloneta, Barcelona. The individual, as ARA has been able to confirm, had broken a restraining order against his ex-partner.

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

New firearms confrontation in Catalonia. This afternoon in Badalona there was a fight that ended with four injured. Specifically, for reasons that are still being investigated, there was a confrontation that left two men injured by firearm, another injured with a bladed weapon, and a fourth who was injured by a blow to the head. At the moment, as confirmed by the Mossos d'Esquadra to ARA, none of the injured are critical and their lives are not in danger. According to the Catalan police, the events took place on Marquès de Montroig street.

It was the late 18th century and the English chemist Joseph Priestley made a discovery that revolutionized medicine. Specifically, he thought of a way to feel it less: he discovered a new gas, nitrous oxide, which had analgesic properties and could relieve pain. It was one of the first gases used to anesthetize a patient before surgery. In fact, it is still used in childbirth today. However, without knowing it, Priestley also revolutionized the parties of the time: the elites began to try nitrous oxide and discovered that, besides being a good analgesic, in small quantities it produced a feeling of euphoria. It became a fashion at high society parties. The laughing gas had just been born.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) suggests that impact with a flock of birds is the most probable cause of the helicopter accident in which a Catalan family and the pilot died on April 10, 2025, in the Hudson River, New York. The report, published this Thursday, concludes that there is evidence compatible with a bird strike before the aircraft lost control and plunged into the river. The report, published this Thursday, concludes that there is evidence compatible with a bird strike before the aircraft lost control and plunged into the river.

Eight in the evening. Sepulchral silence in Plaça Fra Bernadí in Manlleu. In front of the town hall, an emotional atmosphere marked by consternation filled the space to overflowing. More than five hundred people gathered there as a sign of mourning for the death of the two eleven-year-old twin brothers who were found dead this Tuesday in the Ter river. Words of affection, hugs, and gestures of support marked the minute of silence, which concluded with an emotional applause for the minors.

At least thirteen people have been injured by the fall of a tree in Batet de la Serra, in the municipality of Olot. According to the Mossos d'Esquadra, the tree fell on the porch of a kind of barn on a farmhouse where a group of six monitors and sixteen children between 9 and 11 years old had asked for permission to stop for lunch while on a route.

Last week was critical, one of the most complicated the Bombers de la Generalitat have experienced, and it has confirmed that it will be a complex summer of fires in Catalonia. All fires start with a spark that can ignite in many ways. By lightning, wiring, a plowing machine, a cigarette butt, or an arsonist who puts flammable liquid in the forest to burn. The reality is that Catalonia, as a Mediterranean territory with a lot of vegetation, has always been prone to fires. According to data from the Agents Rurals accessed by ARA, in the last forty years 14,410 forest fires have been declared — not including agricultural fires — up to July 6, 2026. How many of these were caused by human activity?

What began with an inspection of a waste management plant that was dumping construction materials from Barcelona has ended up uncovering a network that illegally moved tens of thousands of tons of waste from France to Catalonia. An operation involving the Civil Guard, Europol, and the French Gendarmerie has resulted in the arrest of four people who allegedly formed part of an organization dedicated to environmental fraud and illegal waste trafficking. The investigation has established that at least 46,000 tons of waste from France were brought into Catalonia and clandestinely buried in agricultural land, mainly in Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Baix Llobregat). The City Council has already announced that it will request to be involved as a private prosecution.