A National Police officer has died and another has been seriously injured in the explosion of a backpack with a device found this Tuesday early in the morning in an apartment in Oviedo. In the same building, a shooting also took place moments before the explosion due to a neighbor dispute that left a 17-year-old girl injured. The police are investigating these two events as related and are looking for a man who is allegedly both the author of the shots and the owner of the backpack that imploded.

Police crackdown on human trafficking in Catalonia. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested fifty members of a criminal network that is estimated to have earned more than three million euros by irregularly bringing Pakistani immigrants into the country. Three have been sent to prison. The organization charged its victims up to 30,000 euros, who often ended up in jobs verging on exploitation. The network made use of business owners who faked fraudulent contracts.

A continuous trickle of false bomb threats against aircraft in mid-flight on different European routes. In the last 24 hours, eight have been recorded. Yesterday, Monday, the first incident occurred; the other seven have taken place this Tuesday. Four of the eight affected aircraft are from Ryanair; one from SAS; another from LOT and two from Wizz Air. Three of the planes –the one that was the subject of a threat on Monday and two of those affected today–, had departed from the United Kingdom; another was covering the route between Copenhagen and Warsaw; another had departed from Lisbon bound for Rome; two more had departed from Dublin and were flying towards Rome and Sofia respectively and, finally, another was covering the Bergamo-Sofia route. The inspections carried out on the planes have not found any explosives. At this time, the different European authorities cannot determine if it is a coordinated action, sabotage or a prank.

About twenty people have been injured to varying degrees this Monday on the A-2 motorway in a multiple-vehicle accident involving about ten cars and a truck carrying a large beam. The incident occurred around 6:30 p.m., as the motorway passes through Sant Andreu de la Barca.

It says a lot about how new a social movement is that it currently cannot be classified. Not even that it can be called a movement, nor that it is social. The Mossos d'Esquadra speak of Blocus as a phenomenon. They discovered it at the beginning of last week, shortly before riots that exceeded their expectations of violence. Since Saturday, they have been analyzing them in depth: the profile of those arrested, the users inciting these groups, the accounts calling for new protests... And in the last few hours they have carried out arrests in record time. For the moment, the police have not identified any clear pattern.

Would Spain apply the German model –stopping circulation– on those high-speed railway lines that are under construction? Until now, it was a question with a fairly unanimous answer: no. But since the tragic train accident in Urda, in the province of Toledo, the Spanish government acknowledges that it is an option it is considering. This would mean that those sections of track where remodeling is being carried out would be completely closed until the work is finished. This is not common in Spain, which has historically opted for a model where circulation is maintained while works are being executed. To make this possible, for example, work is done at night. If this new option were chosen, one of the lines affected would be the high-speed line connecting Madrid and Barcelona, specifically the crossing between Madrid and Calatayud.

"It didn't take us by surprise, the facts deny it." With these words, the Director General of Police, Ferran López, has denied that the Mossos d'Esquadra did not expect the riots on Saturday in Barcelona. The demonstration had a level 2 out of 3 rating and, as this newspaper has already been explaining, they carried out 300 checks on young people before the gathering and also confiscated hammers, pyrotechnics, sprays, stones, and balaclavas. There had already been some 'Blocus'-style demonstrations before, one in Manresa, for example, without incidents. But the police were indeed surprised by the violence of the young people. "We did not correctly gauge the level of violence, we had never seen it before," admitted López before an opposition that criticized the Mossos for not sufficiently anticipating this scenario, to the point that Junts has requested the resignation of Minister Parlon.

"We only talked about that with friends. About Paris. About the videos appearing on TikTok. I wanted to protest," he says, now free. The phone rang at two in the morning. It was the Mossos d'Esquadra and they had arrested the boy. The next morning they went to the City of Justice and entered a room full of relatives who, like them, were surprised, stressed, worried. Fathers crying. Mothers denying that their son was capable of doing all that. They reunited with him. All the children were minors and all had been arrested for the disturbances that were recorded this Saturday night in Barcelona. "It was chaos. There were only two lawyers for all the children," the relatives comment.

The arrests continue and the first judicial response to the riots on Saturday in Barcelona has arrived. The Juvenile Prosecutor's Office has requested the internment of 6 detainees and a ban on attending demonstrations for 20 others involved. Meanwhile, the number of detainees has risen to 130 – 78 of whom are minors –, according to the latest balance from the Mossos d'Esquadra, who continue to investigate who is behind this episode.

"A website from the jihadist environment affiliated with Daesh has been detected where a call is made to attack both the police and protesters in the protests taking place in various European countries. The publication specifically mentions Spain". This is one of the most prominent points of an internal alert, to which ARA has had access, which has been issued by the Ministry of the Interior and which the main State security forces have received.

They would come to Catalonia, arrive at a wind farm, steal the copper from the turbines, and flee the country quickly. This was the method of a criminal group dismantled by the Mossos d'Esquadra with four arrests of people between 32 and 41 years old who had allegedly committed twelve robberies, eight of which were in the regions of Tarragona and Lleida —the remaining ones were in the Valencian Community and Aragon—. The head of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of Camp de Tarragona, Marc Bayón, expressed surprise because none of the four detainees had a criminal record in the country and added that it had been "very difficult to tackle" this gang coming from Eastern Europe. Three of the four detainees have already been remanded in custody.

"We cannot wait for more things to happen to take action." With these words, the chief commissioner of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Sílvia Catà, summarizes what is happening with youth gangs in Catalonia: they are smaller groups than in the 2000s, much more heterogeneous and flexible, with less presence than back then, but they exist. And, for the first time, the Catalan police are providing figures on the phenomenon. According to the Mossos d'Esquadra's calculations, there are a thousand young people in the orbit of these gangs and approximately half can be directly classified as members. This data is the result of months of research, with more than 600 diverse sources consulted, ranging from a police report of an incident to an informant. All of this has led the Mossos to create the Proa, a specific plan to fight against youth gangs. This Thursday it was presented within the force and it will be launched in November.

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested two boys aged 19 and 20 as the alleged perpetrators of the robberies against minors that had put the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district on alert in recent days. The alarm was mainly raised after they held up and assaulted a group of teenagers in the early hours of October 10th at the intersection of Bertrand i Serra and Torras i Pujalt streets with a fake gun. According to police sources, the youths explained that the assailants stole various personal items from them, including mobile phones, clothing, and footwear.

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.