Crime in Consell de Cent: the victim had a gun in the apartment

BarcelonaThe hypothesis that the victim of the shooting at 200 Consell de Cent, Barcelona, is linked to organized crime is gaining ground. According to ARA, a weapon and two Croatian passports were found inside the apartment where the man had recently lived. For this reason, and due to the manner in which the man was found, the victim was found in the apartment where he had recently lived. how the murder occurred –shot in the back and in the doorway of the building where he lived–, the Mossos d'Esquadra suspect that the case may be an execution within the scope of organized crime.

According to what has been advanced The Vanguard and ARA has been able to confirm, other information would establish that it was revenge within the scope of the Balkan mafia, specifically between Serbian and Montenegrin gangs and related to drug trafficking. The man, who was between thirty and forty years old and originally from Serbia, allegedly killed two people linked to a criminal group. According to some local Serbian media, he would have participated in the murder of two members of a Montenegrin criminal group in July 2020 on the Greek island of Corfu and, in response to this crime, this network would have ordered their execution.

Media that have echoed the case such as KurirThey claim the victim's name was Filip Knežević, who was part of a Serbian clan involved in drug trafficking, arms sales on the black market, and money laundering for other criminal gangs. This made him a highly sought-after figure by the Balkan mafia.

This is the main line of investigation for the Catalan police, who, according to sources familiar with the case, must now activate international cooperation and coordination mechanisms with these countries to obtain information. For the time being, the Mossos d'Esquadra continue searching for the perpetrator or perpetrators of the crime, who managed to flee the scene and have not yet been identified or located.