Carlota Elias was clear that she needed a topic that would motivate her for her final degree project in criminology. And she came across the word hyrbridophilia: people who are attracted to criminals. She has finally turned it into the book Hibristofília, a tale of (enclosed) fairies.

TV3 has started a new season of Crims with deception as the new common thread in its promotional trailer. But it is impossible to find a single episode in the six seasons where deception is not present. Through betrayal, lies, or false appearances, deception is endemic to true crime. On Monday, they started with L’assassí de la pandèmia, a serial-killer who killed homeless people during the COVID lockdown. Perhaps because of this element of unpredictability, the program lingered to exhaustion on a resource that is already emblematic of this genre: the drone shot. In forty-three minutes of story, a minimum of twenty-seven overhead shots were inserted –this view of the territory from the sky, a bird's-eye view–. This means that, on average, there was an aerial shot every minute and a half of narrative. With this insistence, it is by no means a simple ornamental matter. It is, without a doubt, a symptom. A visual resource that wants to tell us something.Drone images elevate the gaze, provide perspective, and territorialize the story. The landscape takes on a determining role. In Crims, the opening credits already incorporate this resource in an urban and nocturnal context, which makes everything more mysterious. It is a way of telling us that the city of Barcelona becomes a kind of almost inscrutable anthill. In the case of this new episode, the aerial view also glided, alternating with natural landscapes, which became wilder seen from so high up. Day and night follow each other, playing with the light and dark that are the series' motto. The green of the trees is not a synonym for splendor but a lush blanket that hides what we are looking for. Most images are always crossed by roads, paths, and railway lines. These marks that cross the territory are escape routes. Often a vehicle circulates to reinforce the idea. This overhead shot conveys a sense of dominance, of absolute power. It represents the gaze of a god, of a superior entity that observes and controls, an unknown entity that permanently watches us, that knows what we mortals do not know. It is a vantage point that no one else can access. It can create the false appearance of objective observation, deceptively neutral, supposedly cartographic. But it is an absolutely ideological approach. It is also a dehumanized, amoral, and uncompassionate gaze. It projects an idea of tracking, police inspection, forensic observation. The entire landscape, without exception, becomes suspicious. Because the entire territory becomes a potential crime scene, an area of delinquency and secrecy. The whole map is a hiding place.Drone images are hypnotic. This is contributed to by the movement that glides smoothly through space. Horror, therefore, becomes fascinating, pleasant to observe. And this tension between evil and beauty is morbid and addictive. Ethics disappear in favor of aesthetics. But, above all, it insists to the audience that we are insignificant, tiny, and vulnerable beings. It reminds us that we are nothing.

TV3 has started a new season of Crims with deception as the new common thread in its promotional trailer. But it is impossible to find a single episode in the six seasons where deception is not present. Through betrayal, lies, or false appearances, deception is endemic to true crime. On Monday, they started with L’assassí de la pandèmia, a serial-killer who killed homeless people during the COVID lockdown. Perhaps because of this element of unpredictability, the program lingered to exhaustion on a resource that is already emblematic of this genre: the drone shot. In forty-three minutes of story, a minimum of twenty-seven overhead shots were inserted –this view of the territory from the sky, a bird's-eye view–. This means that, on average, there was an aerial shot every minute and a half of narrative. With this insistence, it is by no means a simple ornamental matter. It is, without a doubt, a symptom. A visual resource that wants to tell us something.Drone images elevate the gaze, provide perspective, and territorialize the story. The landscape takes on a determining role. In Crims, the opening credits already incorporate this resource in an urban and nocturnal context, which makes everything more mysterious. It is a way of telling us that the city of Barcelona becomes a kind of almost inscrutable anthill. In the case of this new episode, the aerial view also glided, alternating with natural landscapes, which became wilder seen from so high up. Day and night follow each other, playing with the light and dark that are the series' motto. The green of the trees is not a synonym for splendor but a lush blanket that hides what we are looking for. Most images are always crossed by roads, paths, and railway lines. These marks that cross the territory are escape routes. Often a vehicle circulates to reinforce the idea. This overhead shot conveys a sense of dominance, of absolute power. It represents the gaze of a god, of a superior entity that observes and controls, an unknown entity that permanently watches us, that knows what we mortals do not know. It is a vantage point that no one else can access. It can create the false appearance of objective observation, deceptively neutral, supposedly cartographic. But it is an absolutely ideological approach. It is also a dehumanized, amoral, and uncompassionate gaze. It projects an idea of tracking, police inspection, forensic observation. The entire landscape, without exception, becomes suspicious. Because the entire territory becomes a potential crime scene, an area of delinquency and secrecy. The whole map is a hiding place.Drone images are hypnotic. This is contributed to by the movement that glides smoothly through space. Horror, therefore, becomes fascinating, pleasant to observe. And this tension between evil and beauty is morbid and addictive. Ethics disappear in favor of aesthetics. But, above all, it insists to the audience that we are insignificant, tiny, and vulnerable beings. It reminds us that we are nothing.

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.

Officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested a 20-year-old man on Tuesday night in connection with the violent death of a man in Sant Andreu, Barcelona. The victim was his mother's partner. According to information obtained by ARA and confirmed by the police in a statement, the incident occurred around 8:00 p.m. Emergency services (112) received a call from the alleged perpetrator reporting that he had injured another person with a knife at his home. Several Mossos d'Esquadra units, as well as paramedics from the Medical Emergency System (SEM), were dispatched to the scene—the apartment where the young man, his mother, and his stepfather lived. They began resuscitation efforts on the victim. The man was taken to a hospital in critical condition, and the stepson was arrested for attempted murder at the same apartment. Sources indicate that the arrested man's mother witnessed the events.

Between twenty and thirty cars are stolen each week, and the same number of robberies occur daily in the Lleida region, "some very violent." Ninety percent of those arrested for these crimes are of North African origin. These are some of the figures published on Tuesday by the Catalan Alliance of the Lands of Lleida on social media. Silvia Orriols' party put numbers to the crimes committed in this area and, once again, targeted the Muslim community in its offensive against people from Morocco. The Lleida Municipal Police (Guardia Urbana) took less than an hour to deny these figures, which the far-right party claimed had been provided to them by sources within the force itself. "We categorically deny the data you are disseminating and that it is official information from the Lleida Municipal Police. What you are stating is not true in any case. We ask that you correct yourself and stop spreading falsehoods. Thank you," the Lleida local police responded from their official account.

Kotor is a city of just over 10,000 inhabitants located in southern Montenegro. Surrounded by mountains and the sea, it is a popular tourist destination, perfectly illustrating the rugged and imposing landscape of this Balkan country. But Kotor was also the birthplace of a mafia that was very active at the beginning of the century, primarily involved in drug trafficking. Its reach extended throughout Europe and even extended to the port of Valencia. In 2014, a shipment of cocaine disappeared. According to a report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, it was a Kotor mafia operation that went bankrupt. This shipment sparked an internal war within the mafia, leaving two clearly distinct factions: the Skaljari and the Kavac. The war continues, and in recent months Catalonia has been feeling its consequences.

Actor, director, and producer Rob Reiner (78) and his wife, Michele Singer (68), were found dead Sunday afternoon—early Monday morning in Catalonia—in their Brentwood, California home. The cause of death was stab wounds. There were no signs of forced entry, and the case is being investigated as a homicide by the Brentwood Police Department. One of the couple's sons, Nick, was arrested hours later by police—Sunday afternoon, shortly after 9 p.m. in California—in connection with the double homicide, according to US media. The 32-year-old's bail was set at $4 million. Nick, who had struggled with drug addiction and had been in rehab several times, was one of Reiner's three children with Michele Singer, his second wife, whom he married in 1989. Another daughter, Romy, discovered her parents and called emergency services.

After the murder of a woman in Huelva at the hands of her ex-partner was confirmed on Monday, the National Police are investigating another femicide this Tuesday, this time in Zaragoza, involving a 49-year-old woman. The alleged perpetrator is her partner, with whom she lived, who has already been arrested, according to the Government Delegation in Aragon. In addition, the Ministry of Equality also confirmed another femicide in Alicante on October 24th. With these three femicides, the total number of women murdered by partners or ex-partners this year has risen to 36. None of the three murdered women had filed previous complaints, nor were they registered in the VioGen system, which records cases of violence against women. In the case of Zaragoza, the government delegate in Aragon, Fernando Beltrán, explained to the media that neighbors of the couple raised the alarm early in the morning after hearing arguments inside a home. A patrol arrived at the apartment, and the officers had to use force because the man refused to let them in. There, the police found the woman with several stab wounds and, despite attempts to save her life, they were unable to revive her. The National Police have arrested the suspected perpetrator of the homicide, and the investigation has been handed over to the judicial police. The Zaragoza City Council has declared a day of mourning.

The unidentified body of the woman known as "the woman in pink," found on July 3, 2005, by a taxi driver in Viladecans, is that of a 31-year-old woman of Russian origin, the National Police Directorate announced in a statement on Thursday. The identification was made possible thanks to the Identify Me campaign promoted by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), which has already helped identify several women who have been found dead under suspicious circumstances in recent decades throughout Europe. All the victims can be found at this link.

The Parc des Colores in Mollet del Vallès was the last major work of architect Enric Miralles, inaugurated in 2001, a year after his death. It's a space designed to connect neighborhoods, which he achieves with sinuous cement structures, blue-painted floors, sand, trees, pergolas, water features (now defunct), and a grand staircase that presides over the space, designed for concerts and shows. It's a park that by day is filled with children playing ball, swinging, and chasing each other, and which, according to some residents, by night often brings together young people who make the most of the early morning. Last Friday night, the grand staircase, with modernist touches reminiscent of Gaudí, was stained with blood.

Crime rates across Catalonia are down slightly, but sexual assault and other crimes linked to sexual freedom are up. This is a snapshot of the Catalan crime map for the first six months of 2025, according to the crime report released Tuesday by the Ministry of the Interior. In Catalonia, more than 50 crimes are reported every hour, and the vast majority—as has been the case in recent years—are thefts and cyber fraud: the two categories together account for almost 50% of all detected crimes. Overall, crime rates are down 4.5% compared to the first half of 2024, with notable declines in homicides (from 44 last year to 24 this year) and burglaries, which fell 15%, but drug trafficking offenses rose 8.4%.

More than a year ago, a woman reported to the Palafrugell Citizen Assistance Office that someone had drawn up a rental contract for an apartment owned by her husband, even though he had been dead for some time. What she didn't know at the time was that this suspicion would eventually uncover a network of fraudulent family reunifications and document forgery. An investigation by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) and the Palafrugell Local Police resulted on July 30th in the arrest of a 57-year-old man for allegedly committing 23 crimes against the rights of foreign citizens and another 23 for falsifying public, official, or commercial documents.

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.

The grandson of Josep Lluís Ortega Monasterio, author, as is known, of the habaneraMy grandfather, considers "a victory" that in the Calella de Palafrugell song on Saturday the audience will end up, as one man, warbling the popular songKoldo Ortega Monasterio, as he is called, has announced a lawsuit against the authors of the documentary.Walls of silence, from TV3, insinuating that the composer was "connected" to a network of sexual exploitation of minors. He says this "is absolutely false and manipulated" and that his grandfather's innocence "has already been proven in court, but it has not been respected." Thus, the debate on the separation between work and author is not necessary for the moment, but, of course, it is inevitable.

Between February 1935 and April 1936, Dolors Coït, a petite 21-year-old woman with "beautiful, naive, and curious eyes," according to the press of the time, fatally poisoned five people: her mother-in-law, her husband, her brother-in-law, her brother-in-law's wife, and her son. The crime took place in Granja de Escarpe, a farming village in the Segrià region that now has a thousand inhabitants, and where Anna Sàez Mateu (1969) grew up. The director of the newspaper Segre Not only was he born in the same town, but he also lived in the same house where three of the victims died. "I'd been approached to write a book about these crimes before, but I'd always said no because it's a well-documented story and didn't offer much. Until I realized it connected with me," explains Sàez, who has just published The poisoner (Portico), which has as a subtitle A rural serial killer.

If it had lasted another two hours in 2024, Catalonia would have ended the year with a bad crime rate. It is a simple coincidence that only 120 more crimes were recorded in 2023 than in 2024. This is because almost 1,400 criminal acts are committed in the country every day, half a million crimes at the end of the year. This gives an average of 60 crimes every hour, with these two hours being the ones that separated Catalonia from ending the year in positive or negative.