The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested the imam of Ripoll last Thursday for the alleged sexual assault of a minor. According to sources consulted by ARA, the detainee touched an 11-year-old girl inappropriately during a class at the madrasa, the Islamic school that shares facilities with the town's mosque. The Ripoll City Council expressed its regret at not being informed of the imam's arrest through "official channels" and offered its support to the victim and her family. "We condemn all forms of sexual violence and reiterate our absolute commitment to protecting the rights of children and adolescents," the council stated in a press release published on social media this Saturday. The City Council also offered municipal legal services to those affected, as well as psychological and social support resources. The leader of Aliança Catalana and mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols, has stated that the City Council "will request to join the prosecution when the trial is held" against the detainee and has criticized the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, for not informing them. "That I find out thanks to a Moroccan woman, and not thanks to the Department of the Interior, that the imam who preaches in Ripoll has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a minor, is implausible and unacceptable," she emphasized on social media.

A week ago, police dismantled a faction of the Trinitaris gang, a Latin American gang based in Catalonia, arresting 19 people. As reported by ARA, the operation was a joint effort by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) and the National Police, involving some 300 officers. He managed to dismantle that faction of the organization. Very active, especially in Hospitalet de Llobregat. In total, they carried out twenty raids, some in Hospitalet, but also in Barcelona, ​​Esplugues, Sant Boi, Cubelles, and Salou. This Saturday, with the final tally of the operation, the police provided more details about how the organization operated, attributing to it two attempted murders and at least five shootings. Its members allegedly carried out armed robberies on commission. For example, the police link the organization to a shooting on June 8 in L'Hospitalet, in which a man was seriously injured, and to another during the Sant Joan festival in the Montigalà industrial park in Badalona, ​​in which they opened fire on several people to steal chains and jewelry, with two fatalities. Furthermore, some of those under investigation intercepted a young man riding a scooter on June 25th and shot him in the leg during a robbery, also in Hospitalet. In fact, the joint investigation began in February, following an attempted homicide stemming from an armed robbery in the same city. As a result of this incident, investigators were able to uncover, identify, and dismantle a faction of the Trinitarios gang based in Catalonia. The gang, with defined roles and a division of responsibilities among its members, initially carried out robberies with violence and intimidation. The leaders passed on the targets to the second tier, who organized lower-ranking members to conduct surveillance, usually at Latin nightclubs, where the robberies were carried out. According to the police, to carry out the robberies, they typically waited for the victims to leave the nightclubs and then assaulted them. Prison operation

As the investigation progressed, police discovered that the group was also involved in drug trafficking, an activity coordinated by members who were free and others who were in prison at the time. ARA had already reported that the operation also extended to prisons. Police searched several cells in three Catalan penitentiaries where members of this gang were housed. They confiscated cell phones for analysis. Three inmates from Brians 1 prison also left the facility to accompany police to their homes to witness a search. Most of those involved were inmates being held in pretrial detention.

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Five arrests in 24 hours related to the PSOE for alleged corruption cases and cases of alleged sexual harassment: after the Salazar case, and that of the president of the Lugo Provincial Council, Javier Izquierdo, senator and member of the party's executive committee, resigned yesterday.And yesterday, the PSOE failed to pass the deficit target, a necessary step before the budget can be processed.

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The Flotilla has confirmed this morning that The Italian Navy has intercepted 19 of the 44 ships that made up the fleet..

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National Police officers have arrested a woman in Madrid for allegedly trying to kill her 10-year-old daughter by poisoning her with yogurt containing a large amount of medication. The incident occurred on Tuesday, September 9, in the Ciudad Lineal district. The suspect's older children were the ones who found their mother and sister unconscious when they arrived home.

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The Madrid municipal police officer arrested for accidentally strangling a suspected thief to death was released on bail this Thursday. However, the investigation remains open, and an autopsy will determine the cause of death of the victim, who allegedly tried to steal the officer's cell phone. The officer, who was off-duty, used the mattress tactic, which consists of immobilizing someone by the neck. This incident, with several precedents in Catalonia, Spain, and around the world, has reopened the debate on how police immobilize or restrain someone.

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New joint device of the police forces to catch thieves and repeat offenders in Catalonia. The Mossos d'Esquadra, together with the urban guard, the local police and the Spanish police, They carried out a new Kanpai plan yesterday (this is how they have dubbed this type of operation) that allowed them to identify and arrest up to thirty people in just seven hours, with a total of 226 criminal records, and locate another four people under criminal investigation, with a total of 48 records.

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The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested four people this Wednesday morning for their alleged connection with the murder of Magí OF, lScrap metal businessman from Martorell who was found dead in his home last November, when he was 70 years old. After four months of investigation, the Catalan police have managed to identify and arrest four men aged between 27 and 29. On the night of 21 November, the daughter found the father's body, after neighbours had warned her because his car was badly parked in the entrances to the tower where he lived in the Camí Fondo neighbourhood. She found him tied up and gagged, and with some bruises. Everything was in disarray and valuables had been taken.

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Three people were arrested on Tuesday in an operation by the central anti-corruption area of the Mossos d'Esquadra for allegedly embezzling public money from a job placement foundation in Esparreguera. The case is under summary secrecy, but sources from the Catalan police have confirmed to the ARA that none of the three people under investigation held a public office. According to the report, The Newspaper, part of the public funds received by the foundation to integrate people with intellectual disabilities, people at risk of social exclusion and vulnerability into the labour market would have ended up being used to pay private expenses.

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