The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) launched a major operation early Tuesday morning against an international drug trafficking organization operating between Catalonia and Italy. According to sources consulted by ARA, the gang primarily dealt in large quantities of cocaine, although they also handled other drugs such as marijuana and hashish. As is typical, Barcelona was the point of arrival for the drugs, and the gang then transported them to various Italian cities where the buyers were located. This newspaper has learned that the gang's leader has already been arrested in Barcelona. The Mossos expect to make approximately ten more arrests. Officers are currently raiding several apartments in Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat. They anticipate carrying out up to nine searches. The police force has deployed around 150 officers, including members of the DIC (Criminal Investigation Division), the Central Unit, the ARRO (Rapid Response Unit), the BRIMO (Mobile Intervention Brigade), the canine unit, and the drone unit. The case is under seal.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) seized 87 kilograms of hashish in the early hours of July 3rd during a random raid on a routine checkpoint in Barcelona. "An operation of that magnitude is not at all common in Gràcia," says Carla, a policewoman at the police station in this district. It was her second day of training and, along with a colleague, they decided to chase a car that had tried to evade the police operation. Inside, they recovered 17 packages valued at €165,000 on the black market. The discovery has become the hashish intervention The biggest incident in Barcelona this year.

Typically, in a police investigation, drugs end up leading to weapons. That is, first a marijuana plantation or a shipment of hashish is usually detected, and then the police end up discovering that the traffickers are armed, not so much to attack the police, which is very rare, but to defend themselves against robberies (known as narco-assaults or drug robberies). rollovers) that they suffer at the hands of other criminal groups. An investigation by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) has changed this order of factors and has become one of the first operations by the Catalan police against arms trafficking in Catalonia. As sources within the force admit: the weapons ended up leading to the drugs.