In 1961, a group of residents from the Eixample were looking for tables and chairs to stage their amateur theatre play. On Muntaner street, in a Barcelona still under construction, an ambitious and restless entrepreneur, Jaume Soler, saw an opportunity and launched himself into the adventure. Why not offer a service to provide materials for specific events? What began 65 years ago as a neighborhood project has grown to unimaginable proportions. Three generations later, that company called Dasler has become a benchmark in furniture rental and has even set tables for events such as the wedding of Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin, the visits of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI to the Catalan capital, and the "VIP area of Rosalía's latest concert.

The Civil Guard has opened an investigation into the death of a two-year-old girl in the Galician municipality of Brión, in A Coruña, inside the family car. Initial police information suggests that the father, after a distraction, got out of the vehicle and went to work and, therefore, forgot the child inside. The alarm was raised when the mother went to pick up the girl from nursery school at three in the afternoon and was told she had not attended.

First actions by Jonathan Andic's defense after he was arrested this Tuesday for his alleged connection to the death of his father, Isak Andic, founder of Mango. Andic's eldest son was brought before the court in Martorell and testified for the first time as an investigated party – he had previously testified as a witness – regarding his father's fall in December 2024 while hiking in Collbató. During this testimony, Jonathan limited himself to monosyllabic answers to his lawyer, Cristóbal Martell's questions. As reported by Efe and confirmed by ARA, his defense will request to testify again before the judge once they have analyzed the entire case file. For now, they do not specify when this request will be made.

Isak Andic, owner of Mango,'s mobile phone was key to placing police focus on his son, Jonathan Andic. After the founder of the clothing multinational died hiking in Collbató, the Mossos d'Esquadra recovered his mobile and wiped it. There they found messages with his son that showed tension between them. Now, it has been the wiping of Jonathan Andic's mobile phone from which evidence has also emerged that has ended up leading to his arrest for the alleged murder of his father. For example, that he made the same route several times in the Salnitre caves, in Collbató, days before his father's death.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango founder Isak Andic, for the death of his father, who died at the age of 71 while hiking in the Salnitre caves on December 14, 2024. Although initially treated as an accident, a few months ago the Mossos began investigating Andic's son, the only person with whom the businessman was hiking that day, for homicide. The Mossos arrested him this morning at his home and took him to the Martorell police station. Around 12:45 PM, he was transferred to the courts in the same city, where he arrived handcuffed. His lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, was already waiting for him there.

Serious racist attack in Manresa. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man and a woman for assaulting a group of Muslim women while insulting them with racist comments and against their religion. It happened this Sunday around eight in the evening on Baixada dels Drets, a central point in the capital of Bages.

Just one month after leaving prison, the man who left the Ponent penitentiary center with a high risk of reoffending has acted again. The Guardia Urbana of Lleida arrested him this Friday afternoon for attempting to rob a supermarket in the capital of Segrià, according to sources consulted by ARA. The arrested man allegedly drew a weapon —which appears to be a replica— and left the premises without managing to take anything. The police located him an hour later in another part of Lleida.

In the realm of security, there are often perceptions in society that do not quite align with police data. There is a reality: two highly publicized homicides have recently occurred, both in the street and with witnesses who saw them up close. But, with the data in hand, for the police, the increase in crime in Catalonia –or the idea that there is now more than before– is a perception: last year fifty-four homicides were committed, the same as a decade ago. This year nineteen have been committed and, if the pace of cases is maintained like this, the year could end with a similar balance to 2025.

On Monday, in En boca de todos, they insisted that the stabbing in Esplugues was a jihadist attack despite official information ruling it out. Nacho Abad, the king of sensationalism and disinformation, summarized the case to his audience with cruel flippancy: “A North African immigrant stabbed a 16-year-old girl and caused a fuss”. He not only got the victim's age wrong. He also didn't care about the name of the neighborhood where the events took place, and he called FinestrellesFinisterre instead. And then he added: “Or I don't remember what it's called”. It is the arrogance of a lack of scruples, which even allows him to display ignorance. When a neighbor corrected him on the age of the murdered woman and told him she was 41 years old, Abad, instead of correcting himself and apologizing, asked the interviewee to justify her mistake: “You, like me, will also have read in all the media that the victim was 16 years old”.The program kept repeating the recordings of the neighbors in a loop and the photograph of the aggressor. The video had a sensationalist narration typical of those videos from Aqui hay tomate. But a very serious and symptomatic event occurred. When Nacho Abad handed over to the reporter who was in Esplugues, pointing out the nationality of the aggressor, in the brief silence of the connection, a voice was heard filtering from a microphone in the studio, whispering: "The word is "moro"". It is worth paying attention to, but it can be heard perfectly. Exactly, at 11 hours, 12 minutes and 32 seconds in the midday, according to the time label of the program itself on screen. The racist comment betrays the ideological perspective of the program. Nacho Abad focused the information emphasizing the terrorist attack as the main hypothesis. The reporter interviewed one neighbor and two female neighbors, one of whom insisted that the attacker shouted "Allah" at the moment of attacking the victim. The presenter questioned the woman, making her repeat if she believed it was a jihadist act. "Total jihadist attack", was the response. To vary, the spokesperson for a Mossos union confirmed that the cry of "Allahu Akbar" was usually indicative of this type of terrorism. "Do you think it is a jihadist attack?", Abad asked the panelists, and some of them answered yes with conviction, based more on their gut feeling than on journalistic rigor.Abad pressured the neighbors to explain the cause of the neighborhood insecurity they perceived, and asked if they related it to the increase in immigration in the neighborhood. Once he obtained an affirmative answer, he asked for confirmation from the spokesperson for Mossos, who ratified it. “You are linking insecurity in Barcelona with the amount of immigration in Barcelona,” he repeated to him, so that he would make it very clear. The motivation for all the information was purely xenophobic. The proof of how crime news is becoming ideological ammunition.

The alleged perpetrator of the death of a woman in Esplugues de Llobregat last Saturday will enter provisional prison, communicated and without bail, as reported this Tuesday by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). The investigating court has opened a case against this man for the crimes ofmurder of a 41-year-old Chinese woman in broad daylight.

When the current extraordinary regularization process for immigrants is completed, up to 150,000 people who live and in many cases work in Catalonia –almost half a million throughout Spain– will go from not having papers and living in the underground economy, to being able to formally enter the labor system with legal residence permits. The regularization will have evident consequences in many areas, such as the labor market or social security, but research also indicates that it may have consequences for security.

Buried more than two meters deep in the well of a house in the Bacarot district of Alicante. This is how the National Police discovered the body of Valencian businessman Jesús Tavira, 63, who had been missing since March 18. He is a well-known businessman in the scrap and vehicle trading sector, who was also the key witness in the famous trial for the 2016 shooting murder of María del Carmen Martínez, the widow of Vicente Sala, former president of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM), acquired by Banco Sabadell.

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 have arrested a 67-year-old man this Friday as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of his mother in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona. The victim was 92 years old and the crime occurred in a socio-sanitary center. The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) is already investigating the events.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a 67-year-old man this Friday as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of his mother in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona. As ARA has been able to learn, the victim was 92 years old and the crime occurred with a bladed weapon in a socio-sanitary center. The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) is already investigating the facts.

A woman walking her dog saw something floating in the Baells reservoir, in Berguedà. It was wrapped and tied with a belt. It could be guessed that it was a human body. The woman called the emergency number and within a few minutes the Mossos d'Esquadra had already confirmed it was a corpse. It happened on Wednesday, April 15th. No one had gone missing from the nearest municipality, Vilada, but the answer was eventually found in Berga: a sixty-year-old resident of the old town was not at home. Everything pointed to someone having killed him.

A hundred tourists arrived in Barcelona last Tuesday night on a date as significant as Sant Jordi. They went to the hotel they had booked, the Standbyme, next to La Boqueria Market, through the Booking platform. But the reservation did not appear anywhere. One of the receptionists at this central hotel in the Catalan capital, Josefina, explained in statements to Efe that on Tuesday, around 8 p.m., they lost access to their Booking profile, coinciding with the massive arrival of people supposedly with reservations to stay in their rooms. The affected parties speak of a digital scam.

The man that the Mossos d'Esquadra were looking for as the alleged perpetrator of the fatal stabbing of a man in the Sant Genís dels Agudells neighborhood, in the Horta-Guinardó district, has turned himself in to the police, as ARA has been able to learn. The crime took place on Saturday night, as part of a neighborhood party that ended with a fight between some of the attendees. One of them, according to the police's reconstruction of events and testimonies, went to his home and returned with a baseball bat and a bladed weapon.

Sant Genís dels Agudells was celebrating a community day this Saturday. The residents of this neighborhood near the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona enjoyed a market organized by the merchants' association, with food trucks and activities. At night, to conclude the evening, they hired some DJs who were supposed to play until 11 p.m., as explained by the Residents' Association. Around 10:30 p.m., however, in Plaça de Meguidó, right where the concerts were with numerous attendees, a fight broke out that ended with a fatality.