The hypothesis that the victim of the shooting at 200 Consell de Cent, Barcelona, is linked to organized crime is gaining ground. According to ARA, a weapon and two Croatian passports were found inside the apartment where the man had recently lived. For this reason, and due to the manner in which the man was found, the victim was found in the apartment where he had recently lived. how the murder occurred –shot in the back and in the doorway of the building where he lived–, the Mossos d'Esquadra suspect that the case may be an execution within the scope of organized crime.

Police crackdown on marijuana trafficking. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) deployed more than 400 officers at five o'clock this Tuesday morning in two operations against the drug traffickers. Organized crime established in Catalonia and linked to drug trafficking and weapons. The dual operation has reached numerous locations across Catalonia (around twenty different towns) and, according to sources within the force consulted by ARA, 29 arrests have been made. The Civil Guard has also launched an operation against drug trafficking in Barcelona and Girona, with 19 searches and up to 22 arrests. In total, this morning, up to 51 arrests have been made between the two police forces for drug trafficking.

The mining company Poderosa confirmed this weekend that 13 of its workers, who had been kidnapped a week earlier by criminal gangs, were murdered. This Monday, relatives of the 13 deceased miners were finally able to identify the bodies, as protests against the Peruvian government for losing control of the Pataz region in the northwest of the country to organized crime continue to grow. Poderosa itself, for which the R&R company that hired the men worked, confirmed that its kidnapped workers had been "cruelly murdered by criminals allied with illegal mining."

The mining company Poderosa confirmed this weekend that 13 of its workers, who had been kidnapped a week earlier by criminal gangs, were murdered. This Monday, relatives of the 13 deceased miners were finally able to identify the bodies, as protests against the Peruvian government for losing control of the Pataz region in the northwest of the country to organized crime continue to grow. Poderosa itself, for which the R&R company that hired the men worked, confirmed that its kidnapped workers had been "cruelly murdered by criminals allied with illegal mining."

The Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries has been in a struggle between life-and-death since he was shot five times, including once in the head, on a street in central Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon. Police are holding two suspects (including the perpetrator of the attack), but have not yet released their identities. In any case, all eyes are on the Mocro Maffia, a group of criminal organizations that base their business on drug trafficking (especially cocaine) and that in recent years had been the target of De Vries' journalistic investigations. These gangs, mainly made up of people of Moroccan origin, have their epicentre in the port of Rotterdam (through which they import the substances that they then distribute in Europe) and operate above all in the Netherlands and Belgium, but their tentacles reach Latin America and also the Costa del Sol, one of the traditional entry points for drugs in Europe.