The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested two boys aged 19 and 20 as the alleged perpetrators of the robberies against minors that had put the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district on alert in recent days. The alarm was mainly raised after they held up and assaulted a group of teenagers in the early hours of October 10th at the intersection of Bertrand i Serra and Torras i Pujalt streets with a fake gun. According to police sources, the youths explained that the assailants stole various personal items from them, including mobile phones, clothing, and footwear.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating several robberies with violence and intimidation, allegedly related to each other and committed against adolescents in affluent areas of Barcelona and Sant Cugat del Vallès over the weekend. As reported by La Vanguardia and confirmed by police sources to ARA, the perpetrators were traveling on a motorcycle that had been reported stolen and allegedly used a firearm – which all evidence suggests was a replica – to intimidate the victims and steal their phones and even their clothing.

Jordi Madern, cousin of the poet J.V. Foix, with two Foix patisseries in the Sarrià neighborhood, died yesterday afternoon at the age of 88. An energetic man, he had worked until the last days in the patisseries, where he attended to customers who asked for him or stayed in the office. In the workshop, located on Carrer Major de Sarrià, he has several pastry chefs, including Joe Moretones and Oriol Madern Mas, his brother, retired, and a nephew, Albert Madern, on whom he relied to continue the business when he was no longer there.