The fight against in Barcelona has two scenarios and two speeds. The first is on the street, where Mossos d’Esquadra troops and the Urban Guard have taken chest with. The second is played in the courts, where the acting is not so immediate, l to launch a shock plan with 10 new magistrates that will help digest those rapid trials. The new judicial infrastructure was launched in May and, since then, has dispatched 495 cases in the three rooms where data from the Dean Court of Barcelona are instructed. That figure adds to the other judgments of the same type they celebrate in other rooms in Barcelona.
The Agreement between Administrations allowed the equivalent of four criminal courts to be launched, as disseminated by the administrations, which will allow to point out in the six months of validity, until November, 1,600 rapid trials, and with the condition that the penalties imposed may never be more than five years in prison. Keep in mind that the call of the trial does not imply the final celebration, due to diverse problems, the main one of which is the non -personation of the cause. To have an idea of the volume of judgments within the normal activity of the courts of Barcelona, last year they ended up 5,284 trials on 6,675 that were indicated. That is, the capacity of the new magistrates means adding additional 24% of fire capacity.
This work has allowed part of the judicial collapse suffered by Barcelona (and Catalonia, the autonomous community that in the eyes of the General Council of the Judiciary requires more new courts), but, it warns that there is a problem: the shock plan only has a validity of half a year. As he explains, he has asked the administrations to extend it already, because otherwise the situation will be the past. “The plan allowed us to point out a month and a half, but as the resources that finance it are ended in November and we cannot count on them, we are pointing again for a year and a half term,” he says. At the time the budget extension arrived, the deadlines for rapid judgments could be reduced almost automatically.
A dozen magistrates are responsible for these cases. Two have requested to move temporarily to Barcelona in the framework of that reinforcement program. Eight other magistrates of Barcelona also enter that shock plan through extraordinary guards every 15 days, so that they do not lose their daily activity. They, together with the other 29 magistrates who instruct rapid trials, were in charge of assuming the cases of the 57 detainees in, last weekend, which had a police record. But that they have a history does not assume that they can be told as repeat offenders, since their cases have been able to file, if the convictions are firm or may have administrative and non -criminal causes, which do not compute so that they are actually considered repeat offenders.
On Tuesday the Council of Ministers approved the possibility that the police can enter the, a platform that allows to calculate if the global amount subtracted by a thief exceeds 400 euros, the monetary limit that transforms a mild crime of theft (entails a fine) into a basic theft (with prison sentences). Ferrando considers that it can help, but that it will not be the panacea, because the judges will also have to confirm that the data provided by the Police “are attributable for the purposes of multi -reality.”
Justice has become a last essential step to end one of the big problems that Barcelona brings, the multi -re -inferior criminals. Last year, they arrested 637 people who had gone through their files almost 7,000 times as a whole. Almost a third of them were arrested while committing Ciutat Vella. The figure meant to take a 140% leap since 2021. The statistics of 2026 will begin to give results on whether the operations Bell And the shock plan in the courts has served as a turning point for a line that only ascended.
