Without a clue to solve the crime that shook Barcelona

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between the market September 18 and Sunday September 25 They registered Seven Murders in Catalonia. Out of this abnormally tragic balance – about fifty murders a year in Catalonia, which means the weekly average is one per week – Mossos d’Esquadra was able to unravel four of them. There are three crimes that have not yet been clarified: L’Hospitalet de Llobregat on Sunday the 18th, Tortosa Monday the 19th in the early morning and at the festival La Merce Barcelona on Sunday 25.

Mossos, who participated in the violent robbery of a worker’s bingo hall in Tortosa, was able to arrest him within a few hours, thanks to the information provided by the National Police. . But The main suspect is not heard from the brother of the arrested minor. and is suspected of crossing the border into France. Since the perpetrator has not been arrested, it is an unsolved crime.

More complex to solve would be the murders at the L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and La Mercè festival. In the first case, the attacker wanted to steal the electric scooter from the victim, she resisted and fatally stabbed him in the heart. The pace of events and the lack of a previous relationship between the two have greatly complicated the investigators’ investigations, but they have had some testimonies and are not pessimistic about resolving it immediately. In the second case, the cops.

The stabbing of the teenager, who died at dawn in Plaza de Espanya, occurred among the crowd leaving the concert venue held on Avenida de. Maria Cristina. The victim, with a cut or two on his side, lay on the ground, was taken to a nearby hospital, and died within minutes. There are records of the moment the young man asked for help. These show the victim’s panic-stricken face, but those around her are concertgoers who haven’t seen anything. There is no footage of the stabbing incident. Investigators also do not have cell phones because the victim cannot testify. And they couldn’t find any witnesses to identify anyone involved.

Having clues about appearance or dress could have allowed investigators to examine the security cameras and begin to know who they were looking for. But without this initial information, researchers currently have no strings attached. of seven crimes black week, the last, La Mercè’s, is currently the furthest from his decision.

Four crimes solved

The authors who have already been arrested are those who committed the murders on Monday 19 in the La Mina de neighborhood. Sant Adria de Besos (Barcelones), on Wednesday, 21st again and campdevanol (Ripollès) and on Friday, September 23 at Empuriabrava (Alt Empordà).

In the first, a Argument between two relatives in Rosalia de Castro street motivated by it illegal sublease made by one of them parking areas The attacker of the official protection block, in which he resided, fled by opening fire on his cousin. Two weeks later, when he was fully identified by investigators, he surrendered to a Mossos police station. The suspect is in custody.

The latter, which has already been resolved, is the person running a caregiver. again. The woman called 112 to report that the 85-year-old woman she was caring for had suffered a serious fall. However, forensic examination injuries not included It may have been accidentally dropped and attacked. Mossos has arrested the babysitter for manslaughter, and there are indications that he was murdered. defraud a victim. The suspect is in custody.

Third, the sexist crime in which Anna G. died. The 21-year-old was sexually assaulted, tortured, and eventually murdered by her emotional partner, Alberto P, who was 16 years older than her. The suspect is in custody. Anna is the sixth woman to bury sexist violence in Catalonia during the current 2022.

The fourth clarified crime took place at Empuriabrava. A German man sneaked into a house and killed its owner while he was sleeping. He put a pillow over his head and pulled the trigger. He then fled in the victim’s trailer. The woman’s husband gave Mossos the location of the vehicle, and National Police agents stopped the vehicle as it tried to cross the border in the municipality of Portbou. The suspect is in precautionary custody, as are the three previous men and the two hooded men involved in the Tortosa attack.

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