The Barcelona Court has acquitted the two Mossos d'Esquadra officers accused of collaborating with a drug trafficking plot The prosecution had requested 18 years and 9 months in prison for the two officers for planting drugs and weapons in the car of a dockworker at the port of Barcelona, ​​Carlos L. However, the court acquitted them because it did not consider it sufficiently proven that they participated in planting the drugs. Furthermore, the court annulled the wiretaps, finding that there was insufficient evidence to justify such measures and that the suspicions regarding their involvement in the scheme had weak supporting evidence. The Fifth Section of the Barcelona Provincial Court, as reported by EFE, also acquitted the other two defendants in the trial held in November: a former Desokupa employee and martial arts instructor, and his nephew, both mechanics. According to the prosecution's theory, both officers were the ones who planted the drugs and weapons in the dockworker's vehicle in June 2016. However, the two officers provided information about Carlos L. after consulting the Mossos d'Esquadra database. The officers, a corporal with over three decades of experience and a former port police officer, had been suspended without pay for four years, but were now back on active duty. The mastermind of the plot

According to the document, both officers, who faced four charges – drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons, unlawful detention, and disclosure of secrets – bear "no responsibility" in the plot orchestrated against Carlos L., who during the trial He explained that behind this maneuver was David Caballero, the dockworker known as Bubito, who was murdered in November 2014 in Montgat, in the Maresme region, in a drug-related revenge killing. Carlos L. defended the theory that he was a "drug lord" who controlled the port and that he devised the plan against him because he had previously refused to work for him. The prosecutor maintained at the trial that, in accordance with a "preconceived plan," the two Mossos d'Esquadra officers—who were then assigned to the Sant Martí police station in Barcelona—provided "essential" information that they obtained on the afternoon of March 18, 2016, by consulting databases. Based on this information, according to the prosecution, the other two defendants surveilled Carlos L. to learn his routines, until June 15, 2016, when they carried out the operation to plant the drugs and weapons, taking advantage of the fact that he had parked his car in front of a gym in Barcelona. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) suspected that the whole thing was a planned operation. On the day of Carlos L.'s arrest, a man who identified himself as Alberto called the Sant Martí police station and asked to speak with an officer named "Trini," a policeman known for having informants. Alberto reported that there was a car, a Volkswagen Golf, with drugs and weapons inside in the Francesc Macià area. This call, which was not the usual way informants contacted the officer, and the fact that they referred to him by his first name, raised suspicions within the Catalan police force.

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"They started treating me well when my family told them I would get the money." A kidnapping victim recounted in court this Monday the two days he spent kidnapped between July 9 and 11, 2022. During that time, he was beaten, electrocuted in the nipples, and his skin was pierced with a drill bit. Eleven of the twelve defendants confessed to participating in the kidnapping or being accomplices, and at the start of the trial, they accepted a plea deal with the prosecution that gives them sentences that vary depending on their involvement, but in no case exceed six years. Before the agreement, the highest sentences the prosecutor requested were over 30 years.

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The six young men accused of gang-sexually assaulting a girl in an abandoned industrial warehouse in Rubí (Vallès Occidental) on the night of Sant Esteve in 2022 have accepted sentences ranging from two to ten years in prison. After the six confessed and admitted what happened following an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office, the court issued the verdict orally, and it is now final. The lowest sentences are for the two defendants who did not actually rape the girl, but allowed the others to do so.

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More than 676,000 objects await sentencing. If we lined them all up, they would take up more than thirty kilometers. They are or were evidence in some court case and are now in safekeeping in case the case ever needs to be reviewed, or until the judge authorizes the destruction of objects corresponding to closed cases. All this evidence is stored in thirty warehouses in Catalonia, and the oldest objects are in the basement of the Barcelona Court. Here, there are 304 square meters housing more than 36,000 objects.

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