One of the minors arrested for the Manresa crime was on supervised release for an attempted homicide

BarcelonaThe two teenagers aged fifteen and sixteen arrested this week for allegedly killing a man in Manresa during the main festival had already been arrested before for cases unrelated to this week's fatal stabbing in the Bages region. In fact, one of them—the fifteen-year-old—had been interned until a few weeks ago as a precautionary measure in a case in which he is being investigated for a robbery with violence and attempted homicide in April, and at the time of the crime he was on supervised release, according to sources familiar with the case who spoke to ARA.

Following Monday's crime, this week a judge ordered closed-regime internment for both, and for the fifteen-year-old boy, he also ordered therapeutic treatment. This teenager was interned as a precaution from the beginning of May until the end of July. Since August, the minor was under supervised release as a precautionary measure while the judicial investigation into the robbery and attempted homicide from April was still ongoing.

The other detainee, sixteen years old, had no precautionary measure in force although he did have two prior records for cases that were still being investigated. Specifically, he has an open case for a robbery with violence in January of this year and another for vehicle theft and driving without a license at the end of June.

Shock and racist messages

The violent death of Carles Vilajosana, a resident of Castellnou del Bages, has shocked the region this week and also sparked a flood of racist messages, with calls for protests in the regional capital. However, as clarified by the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, both arrested individuals were born in Catalonia. One of them is from a Catalan family and the other is from abroad.The Mossos d'Esquadra keep the investigation open to determine if there could be more people involved in the events, which took place in the context of a fight between two groups of four or five people each. The stabbing was around five o'clock on Tuesday at dawn. The next day, the police arrested the two youths who are now interned.