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.

A reaction caused by the incorrect mixing of chemicals at the municipal swimming pool of La Bisbal del Penedès has left seventeen people injured, four of whom are in serious condition. The rest of the injured are all minor, as reported by the SEM. Initially, the possibility of sending an ES-Alert for the confinement of the population in the face of a toxic cloud was considered, a measure that was ultimately discarded once it was verified that there were no effects outside the swimming pool.

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.

At night, in Barcelona's Eixample district, a young man approaches a man and asks for a light. A companion of the young man is filming. Comments can be heard such as: "Hit him already, hit him already". Suddenly, the young man slaps the man hard in the face and, just as suddenly, four friends of the young man appear and hit him and kick him.

Just over 12 hours ago, emergency services were attending to the teenager who ended up dying from a gunshot wound to the stomach, now nothing would suggest it is the scene of a murder. As described by Loli, who has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years, Parc de la Pegaso is "an institution" of La Sagrera. Her children used to have their carnival parades in the park, "when there were boats and fish in the lake." Now, she and her neighbor Àngels – who has also lived here for five decades – comment that last night a group of young people opened fire on others in this very park, near the sports courts.

A teenager died on Thursday night in Barcelona after being shot, bringing the total number of shooting deaths in Catalonia to seven in just four months. According to the latest count by the USPAC police union, as of June 1, there have been 28 shootings in the country, 45% more than the previous year, most of them in the city of Barcelona. The Mossos d'Esquadra say that the first six shooting murders are related to organized crime and drug trafficking, and suggest a gang confrontation as a possible cause for the latest incident. These are all the cases so far:

A minor has died after being shot this Thursday night in Barcelona. The events took place after 10:45 PM in Parc de la Pegaso, in the Sant Andreu district of the Catalan capital. Sources consulted by this newspaper explain that several witnesses heard between two and three shots and later saw some youths fleeing. A group of young people, some with their faces covered, approached another group and opened fire on them. The victim was 15 years old. When emergency services arrived, they found an adolescent with a gunshot wound to the stomach. Despite resuscitation efforts, the boy eventually died. The Mossos d'Esquadra have already opened an investigation and were able to arrest an adult man this Friday to Saturday night as the alleged perpetrator of the minor's death. This is the tenth crime of the year in Barcelona – nine occurred last year – and the seventh with a firearm in the country.

Ferran's boulevard in Lleida has become this Wednesday the scene of one of the most serious traffic accidents ever remembered in the city. A bus with 55 passengers, which covered the route between Lleida and La Granja d'Escarp, lost control shortly before a quarter to eight in the morning and ended up crashing against the facade of the Diputació de Lleida for reasons that are still being investigated.

The main police hypothesis, as explained by the Minister of the Interior herself, Núria Parlon, is that the driver who fled from the police in Sant Martí this Sunday morning and ended up crashing head-on into a car stopped at a traffic light – causing his death and that of the other driver – was drugged. The co-driver of the car stopped at the traffic light, a woman, was admitted in serious condition to the Hospital del Mar, but her life is not in danger. The investigation has been taken over by the Barcelona Urban Guard and they have not yet been able to identify the driver fleeing from the police. The car had French plates, but the young man driving it was undocumented. For the police, it is most likely that he fled because he was drugged and therefore did not want to be stopped. However, they want to identify him to know if he also had any other pending motivation.