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.

His name was Jordi, he was 51 years old, and he lived in Vilafruns de Balsareny, a former mining town located halfway between Balsareny and Sallent, in the Bages region. On Wednesday night, around 8:30 p.m., some friends went to his home and found him dead. He was lying on the floor, bound. The entire apartment was in disarray. What had happened? The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) are investigating it as another murder in Catalonia. The police were alerted by these friends and confirmed that the victim showed signs of violence, as he had been repeatedly assaulted, and was also found tied up. The fact that everything was in disarray is an important clue, but it is not yet conclusive. Investigators are still unsure whether it could have been a robbery that ended tragically. At the moment, the investigation is in its initial stages.

A 37-year-old woman was murdered this Wednesday in Madrid. Police have arrested the victim's ex-partner as the suspected perpetrator of the crime, which could be another case of gender-based violence and would be the fourth femicide in Spain this week, following the double murder of a woman and her daughter on Tuesday in Xilxes (Plana Baixa) and the murder of a nurse at her workplace on Monday in Benicàs; both in the province of Castellón. After the crime, the man went to a National Police patrol and confessed to killing his ex-partner, according to police sources cited by EFE. When officers arrived at the woman's home, they found her dead in a bedroom, lying on the bed with clear signs of strangulation. The victim had been dead for several hours. The woman had two children, who were not the detainee's. It is not yet known whether there were prior reports of domestic violence within the couple, and the Spanish government's Delegation against Gender Violence is gathering information about Wednesday's murder in Madrid. So far, it has been reported that the murder took place on López Hoyos Street in the capital.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested a 51-year-old man early this morning in Tarragona as the suspected perpetrator of the violent death of another man on Sunday in Vila-seca, in the same region, Tarragonès. The incident reportedly occurred in a hotel room in Vila-seca, according to sources consulted by ARA. The investigation is in its initial stages, but officers have already ruled out the possibility that the individuals involved were tourists and that there were any conflicts linked to organized crime. They describe it as a fight that turned violent. According to the Catalan police, the incident occurred last night, and officers arrested the main suspect in the death around 4:30 a.m. The detainee reportedly traveled from Vila-seca to the city of Tarragona during that time. The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Camp de Tarragona Police Region has opened an investigation to clarify the facts. For the moment, the case is under seal. Everything indicates that the victim and the detainee knew each other, although authorities have ruled out a romantic relationship.

His name is Mario Casterás and he is 65 years old. This Wednesday he entered Ponent prison as a confessed perpetrator. of the murder of a woman last Sunday in LleidaHe arrived at the police station covered in blood and confessed to having just killed a 53-year-old woman with whom he shared an apartment, using a knife. They were not in a romantic relationship, and the incident is not being investigated as a case of gender-based violence. Casterás has a long criminal record and has served several prison sentences. In 2000, he killed an inmate at the same prison where he has now been incarcerated, Ponent; a crime that earned him a 16-year sentence. Specifically, he attacked a prisoner with an iron bar in the gym showers. He was jealous because he learned that his partner was also sending letters to that inmate. At the time, Casterás was already in prison for a violent robbery. Over the years, he has been held in several Catalan prisons to serve this second sentence for homicide: first Ponent and then Quatre Camins, and also Brians 1 and 2, Lledoners, and Puig de les Basses. However, his first conviction dates back to 1980 for a series of robberies with his brother. His most recent sentence was also for burglary. He had only been released from Brians 2 prison four months prior, having completed his sentence.

A woman has accepted a 20-year prison sentence for stabbing her partner to death in 2023. The crime took place at their home in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona): the woman tied the man's hands behind his back to immobilize him, simulating a sexual act. According to the prosecutor's indictment, the murder occurred around 1:30 p.m. on November 16, 2023, at the couple's home. The woman "tied the victim's hands behind his back, leaving him completely immobilized," simulating a sexual act. She then stabbed the man 118 times while he was still alive, "which increased his suffering gratuitously and unnecessarily to cause his death," the prosecution explained.

With the main suspect in pretrial detention for just a week, the investigation into the 2001 murder of Helena Jubany has reached its final stages, and the prosecution is seeking to exhaust all options for gathering evidence before the case goes to trial. The judge in Sabadell presiding over the case has ordered, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, that the police conduct a handwriting analysis of Santi Laiglesia and compare it with the anonymous messages Jubany received before her death. Throughout the investigation, these anonymous messages have been the subject of expert and philological reports comparing the handwriting and language used with virtually all the individuals suspected of the crime. In fact, these tests had already linked the messages to the other person under investigation in the case, Xavier Jiménez. Until now, however, none of these tests had been carried out on Laiglesia, whom the family considers the prime suspect in Jubany's murder. Now, he will be transferred from prison to the courthouse so that handwriting experts from the National Police can take samples of his writing and conduct a comparative analysis. The investigating judge has also summoned four witnesses to court next Wednesday to repeat their statements. These four had already testified after the judicial investigation was reopened in July 2020 and before it was shelved again in March 2021. Since their testimonies were taken during this period of inactivity, the prosecution believes they could now be considered invalid and has asked the judge to order them to be repeated. Meanwhile, the Jubany family has asked the judge to summon two more witnesses to testify. These are the owner and an employee of the pharmacy where the benzodiazepines found in the victim's blood were allegedly purchased. These drugs, according to the investigating judge, left her in a "state of deep sleep or coma" before she was thrown from a rooftop. Their testimonies were scheduled for February 2021, but were never taken because the witnesses contracted coronavirus, and the case was subsequently closed.

JAEM had accumulated eight convictions for robbery when he escaped from prison. The first sentence against him was handed down in 2010, when he was 45 years old: a court in Arenys de Mar sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for robbery with intimidation. A year later, in the summer of 2011, the same court convicted him for seven more robberies. In some cases, he had broken into the victims' homes—injuring two of them—and in one instance, he even entered the residence armed. Ten years later, on February 7, 2021, JAEM, then 56 years old and having escaped from Quatre Camins prison, broke into the home of a 96-year-old woman in Calella to rob her and ended up stabbing her to death. Now, the man has accepted the charges and a 25-year prison sentence.

The judge investigating the 2001 murder of Helena Jubany has remanded Santi Laiglesia in custody without bail. The victim's family considers him the prime suspect in the murder. DNA evidence obtained thanks to advances in scientific analysis over the last two decades links Laiglesia to genetic material found on the sweater Jubany was wearing when she was killed. This evidence has been key in strengthening suspicions against him, placing him at the scene of the crime. The investigating judge now maintains that there is "clearly incriminating" evidence against him and that he could flee if released, as well as "pressure or influence" witnesses who will have to testify soon. This Friday's decision paves the way for a trial more than two decades after the murder. A move that, for the Jubany family, represents a "historic turning point" in the case, after having succeeded in 2021 in reopening an investigation that had been shelved in 2005. Helena Jubany's siblings and father waited all morning outside the Sabadell courthouse until they received the news of her imprisonment. The family's lawyer, Benet Salellas, celebrated that "it marks the beginning of breaking the cycle of impunity." Helena Jubany was murdered on December 2, 2001, and her body was thrown from the rooftop into the inner courtyard of a building while she was in a "deep sleep or coma" after ingesting toxic substances, after being undressed and burned. Ending "the imposed code of silence"

The investigating magistrate of Court Number 2 in Sabadell had summoned the main suspect in the case to testify this Friday following the results of DNA tests that point to him. Laiglesia was summoned for 9:30 a.m. and arrived accompanied by his lawyers. Family and friends of Montse Careta, his partner at the time of the crime, were waiting for him at the courthouse entrance. Careta committed suicide in 2002 while in pretrial detention under investigation for the murder. Laiglesia, a lawyer by profession, chose to exercise his right to remain silent and did not answer any questions. Neither from his defense, nor from the prosecution, nor from the investigating magistrate. He also offered no "reasonable explanation," the judge stated in her ruling, as to why traces of his DNA were found on Jubany's clothing. After the hearing, both the Public Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution representing the family of the murdered librarian requested that the investigating magistrate remand him in custody. "The lack of explanation only serves to incriminate," Salellas stated, while awaiting the magistrate's ruling. Salellas also said they want to end the "code of silence" imposed on those close to the suspects. All those investigated for the crime were Jubany's colleagues in the Sabadell Hiking Club (UES), as were many witnesses in the case. The statute of limitations has expired for those who were never formally investigated. The investigating judge believes that several people were involved in Jubany's death, but they have been excluded from the case for various reasons. Therefore, she believes that if Laiglesia remains free during the final phase of the investigation and the trial preparations, he could use this to "pressure or influence" these witnesses to testify in his favor. This Friday, Laiglesia was transferred to Brians 1 prison in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, where he was admitted before 6:00 p.m.

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Twenty years in prison for executing the Olympic Village killer. This is the sentence imposed by the Barcelona Court of Appeals, applying the jury's verdict. The popular court had already found the hitman and his necessary collaborator guilty in the murder of Valentín Moreno, who at 18 earned his nickname after murdering 24-year-old Carlos Javier Robledo in a macabre game: beating to death the first person to touch the jacket they had left on the floor.

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It was an unusual crime. It was January 25, 2022, in a rural area with difficult access, in the Barony of Rialb, in the Noguera region. A 61-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest in the middle of the forest. It was a long-range shot, fired from more than 100 meters away, and only one bullet was needed to end his life. The victim's name was Joan Coromina, and when police investigators heard that name, it quickly seemed familiar.

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"A haplotype (genetic marker) genetic profile was found on the lower back of the sweater that matches that of Santiago Laiglesia." This is an excerpt from the National Police report, which indicates that there is DNA from one of the main suspects, Santi Laiglesia, on Helena Jubany's sweater. It is a greenish-brown garment. that the 27-year-old was wearing on December 2, 2002, the day she was thrown from the roof of a building in Sabadell and murdered. Twenty-two years later, an important step has been taken in solving the crime.

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"I was stabbing him, and the son of a bitch wouldn't die. He had raped me several times." These were the words he uttered. The 25-year-old woman arrested for the death of a man in Calella while the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested him this Tuesday afternoon. The 69-year-old victim was found tied up and covered in plastic at home, with several stab wounds all over her body. As reported by ARA, the man and woman shared an apartment, and according to the author's version, she defended herself when he attempted to sexually assault her. "She claims to have done so in self-defense," the judge states in the ruling sending the detainee to pretrial detention.

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The United States has announced the declassification of more than 230,000 pages of documents related to the April 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. The decision, approved via executive order by President Donald Trump, comes amid pressure on the president to release the documents. documents related to the Epstein case and has been rejected by King's family.

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A man died this Friday afternoon on a street in Barceloneta after hitting his head when two unknown individuals pushed him while attempting to rob him, sources from the Guardia Urbana confirmed to ARA. Police officers were able to arrest the two suspects in the incident. According to the same sources, the victim is homeless. After receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the man finally died. Based on a witness' description of the attack, Guardia Urbana officers have arrested the two attackers. An autopsy and investigation into the death will be conducted by the police force.

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Valentín Moreno was 18 years old the night he killed 24-year-old Carlos Javier Robledo. After a night of partying, Moreno and his friends left a jacket on the floor of a parking lot and beat to death the first person who touched it. That crime, on April 1, 2000, earned him the nickname "the Olympic Village killer" and eight years of confinement in a juvenile center. He was only hours away from adult jurisdiction like the other six convicted for the crime. 21 years later, on November 18, 2021, Moreno was executed in Sant Adrià de Besòs, shot in the back from a bicycle.

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"Closed due to death." This sign posted at the entrance to the Tequima chemical company, located in the Sentmenat industrial estate, conceals the misfortune and terror experienced this Monday morning by one of its owners, Núria, who was hospitalized in critical condition, and her 22-year-old son, Dennis, who also worked for the company. Less than two minutes away by car, another company is closed. In this case, there is a sticker from the Mossos d'Esquadra police: "Sealed." Inside, they found the body of Eduardo, about 70 years old, Núria's partner and Dennis's stepfather. Before taking his own life at his glass company, he allegedly attacked Núria at the family home and murdered his stepson in the street. The incident is being investigated as a case of domestic violence.

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It is the lowest figure in recent years, but it is still "unacceptable." A woman was murdered due to domestic violence in Spain every 7.6 days last year, in 2024. This is underlined by theReport on fatalities from gender and domestic violence within a couple or ex-couple which was made public this Monday morning by the Observatory of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) in Madrid. There are 48 fatalities in total, of which 25 percent lost their lives in crimes that occurred in small municipalities with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, according to the report.

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French police have arrested a man in Besiers, in the Occitanie region, as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of three farmers, one of them Catalan, which took place between November 2023 and January 2024, according to several French media outlets and confirmed by ARA. The detainee was previously convicted of terrorism, according to police sources. His name is Allal El Mourabit Ahmmar, he was on probation and wore a telematic bracelet. At the end of 2023, however, he broke away and began his escape, which resulted in the three crimes.

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Anagrama defends its "right" to publish the book Hate, in which José Bretón confesses to the murder of his two sons. In a statement released this Friday, after the work's release was suspended this week Written by Lusigé Martín, which also prompted warnings from the Prosecutor's Office, the publisher admits the "sensitivity" that the book's content may provoke, but appeals to the constitutional right to "literary creation" and adds: "We reaffirm our commitment to editorial responsibility and freedom of expression, knowing that the two must coexist and must coexist; the complexity that they represent."

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