Ahmed's suspicion is that someone searched for two fairly common Arab names on social media and they, unfortunately, were the ones chosen. "They wrote the name of a racialized person and I came up," he narrates. And Youssef's suspicion is that the day before he posted a video on TikTok that went quite viral and they took his photo from there. The result is a post with his image accompanied by two names that are not his own to accuse them of being murderers.

The crime scene is the Parc de les Planes, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. On March 28, two groups argued and the confrontation ended in gunfire, with a 28-year-old man dead and another young man wounded. In another case, the crime scene is once again a park, the Pegaso park in Barcelona. On July 4 a 15-year-old boy who was with his little brother at this point in the Sant Andreu district was shot to death. What these two incidents have in common is that all the detainees –three youths in the first case and also three youths in the second– were linked to youth gangs.

One at four in the morning and the other at eight in the morning. The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating two possible cases of men kidnapped by force in the country. As ARA has learned, one occurred in Santa Coloma de Gramenet and the victim has not yet appeared. The other took place in Fontanals de Cerdanya and, in this case, the man has been located injured.

A man was shot dead this Friday afternoon in a tattoo parlor in Badalona, according to sources consulted by ARA. The Mossos d'Esquadra are at the scene and have opened an investigation.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating several robberies with violence and intimidation, allegedly related to each other and committed against adolescents in affluent areas of Barcelona and Sant Cugat del Vallès over the weekend. As reported by La Vanguardia and confirmed by police sources to ARA, the perpetrators were traveling on a motorcycle that had been reported stolen and allegedly used a firearm – which all evidence suggests was a replica – to intimidate the victims and steal their phones and even their clothing.

The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested three people this Tuesday allegedly involved in the deadly assault on a man early Monday morning in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. However, the investigation is by no means closed yet, as witnesses speak of a group of between six and eight people who attacked a man in the middle of the street. Therefore, the Mossos are still looking for more suspects.

It has been 10 days since Rami, a 12-year-old minor residing in Granollers, left his home in the middle of the night, coinciding with the heavy rain episode in the capital of the Vallès Oriental. Since then, he was only seen again that same night, approximately an hour after leaving home, entering the reception of a hotel in Granollers and quickly leaving again. He is a boy with autism who had already left his home on other occasions, up to four times. In this case, the main hypothesis is that he did so scared by the storm, a situation that had already happened other times.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating the violent death of a young man early this morning in the Roquetes neighborhood, in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. The first calls from witnesses arrived around two in the morning, warning that a young man was lying on the ground in the middle of Romaní street, approximately at number 12.

Eight tons of hashish are worth approximately 16.2 million euros on the illegal market. And this entire hoard of drugs was hidden in an industrial warehouse in a small municipality in the Alt Empordà, in Cabanes. The Mossos d'Esquadra discovered it on October 1st and it has been an intervention that has quickly become one of the most significant regarding drug trafficking this year: in 2026, 15 tons of this drug have been seized, and more than half come from this operation.

The drug market ends up functioning like that of any legal product. There are the producers (in the case of cocaine, located in South America), the clans that move the drugs by sea to Europe, the groups in charge of receiving and storing it, and the cartels that sell it to wholesalers, who in turn sell it to those who end up retailing it, known as dealers. Now the Civil Guard claims to have interrupted an important part of this chain.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have confirmed that they have found the body of a dead man trapped inside a car in the tunnel of the Ronda Nord in Les Franqueses del Vallès, on the border with Granollers. It is a 43-year-old man who had been reported missing. He was located by company workers who were carrying out tasks to drain water from some of the areas that are still flooded due to the torrential rains of the last few days.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested three young men for their alleged connection to the shooting death of another 28-year-old man on March 28 at the Parc de les Planes in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. The arrests were made this Tuesday in the same city, and the three arrested youths are 18, 19, and 29 years old. One of them was a minor at the time of the events, according to police sources. In this same shooting, another young man was seriously injured.

Two Civil Guard agents have been injured during a shooting in Terrassa. Sources consulted by ARA indicate that the agents were involved in a pursuit when the individuals they were following allegedly opened fire on them. At least one of the agents is reported to be in serious condition. Both officers have been taken to the hospital. This same night, the Mossos have arrested three people as the alleged perpetrators of the shots.

"I wish we had the absolute certainty that it will rain a lot or a little, but we don't," begins the deputy director of Civil Protection, explaining after another complex week, with strong torrential downpours that have once again put the country on alert, the latest being in the Terres de l'Ebre. She describes how meteorologists use models based on statistical data that mean they always have to work with probabilities, even if they are high, regarding whether the rain will be a risk to the population or not. And all this added to a territory like Catalonia, with diverse orography, with mountains near the coast, valleys, plains, and mountain ranges, which makes it all even more difficult to predict.

His name was Javi, he was 60 years old and he was the neighborhood cobbler. Practically all the residents of Martí i Blasi street, in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, knew him because they had brought him shoes to be repaired. This Wednesday, a neighbor from the building where the cobbler's shop he ran was also located saw the shutter half-lowered and suspected that something was wrong. Throughout the morning, he explains to ARA, several neighbors had wondered why the business was closed. Finally, he decided to lift the shutter and found Javi's lifeless body.

New case of illegal detention in Catalonia, again linked to drug trafficking. This Sunday at 9:30 p.m. in Calella, in the Maresme region, a witness alerted that three hooded people had gotten out of a car and had forcibly taken a man, putting him inside the trunk. It all happened in an area on the outskirts of Calella, on Puig de Popa street, but quite busy. The victim's car was left parked in the area, open and with money inside, a clue that has been useful for the Mossos d'Esquadra.

For weeks, neighbors had seen an excess of filth, with trash bags that could even be glimpsed through the windows, and they noticed a strong stench that kept getting worse. It was a detached house located in Cabrera d'Anoia where a family lived, consisting of a father, Albert Soler, a doctor known in the world of homeopathy, his wife, and his daughter, who was ten years old when they arrived a decade ago. After neighbor complaints and the intervention of the City Council, according to sources from the council, this Tuesday, the Mossos d'Esquadra tried to get in touch with this family, but they would pick up and quickly hang up the phone. Finally, this Wednesday, they decided to approach the house and ring the doorbell.

The fact that there are more or fewer copper thefts in Catalonia depends on a building located in the City of London. The London Metal Exchange marks the global evolution of the price of copper and, if things are on the decline in England, in Catalonia everything points to a few quiet months. However, bearing in mind that the price of copper has increased by approximately 20% since the beginning of the year and 70% since the beginning of 2025, this increase has also translated into a rise in thefts in the country, which in some cases have produced serious disruptions to the Rodalies network, the latest this Wednesday on the R3.

The well-known architect Josep Juanpere died on December 26 in Baqueira, in the Aran Valley. Initially, his death was attributed to a heart attack, but the judicial investigation led by the Mossos d'Esquadra has ended up leading to the arrest of his partner, a 65-year-old woman, allegedly related to the architect's death, according to sources consulted by ARA.

Five men with their faces covered, dressed in black and wearing reflective vests with the word "police" in capital letters on their backs, forcibly pull a man with a bloodied face and half-dressed from the back of a car. The events took place on the AP-7, between Montornès del Vallès and Vilanova del Vallès. It is daytime and some drivers are recording the scene, worried about what is happening right in front of them. They doubt whether the five individuals are police officers, due to the clothing they are wearing, but the aggressiveness with which they behave and the fact that they are covered up makes them suspicious. Finally, all five of them manage to get the man into another vehicle, just as it was recorded in a video that has circulated on social media.