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.

We read in ARA a news article by Natalia Vila that explains that the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Guardia Urbana have set up a device "to catch""thieves and repeat offenders in Catalonia."It's called the Kanpai plan (someday we'll have to interview the mastermind behind the names of these police operations), which I believe is the word for "cheers," which is used for "toast" in Japanese. They identified 1,635 criminals, with a total of 4,023 criminal records. And in seven hours, I read, they identified and arrested "up to thirty people, with a total of 226 criminal records."

"We thought they were filming a movie," said Carlota Escudero this Friday afternoon when she saw about forty of Mossos d'Esquadra Entering the Tarragona bus station surrounded by journalists with cameras. The officers arrived at the station in Plaza Imperial Tarragona a little after 5 p.m. They discreetly parked four vehicles at the main entrance. Plainclothes officers were stationed at the other entrances. When everyone was in place, the uniformed officers calmly began entering the station and conducted a raid on identification cards. A few minutes later, they had found one of the profiles they were looking for: a man with a warrant. He was arrested and headed to the police station. According to initial reports, they also found a couple of people carrying small amounts of drugs.