New Year’s Eve has resulted in 117 people arrested in Catalonia, 27 of them for gender violence or domestic violence, as reported by the Department of the Interior and Public Security. The Mossos d’Esquadra, in collaboration with the local police, launched a special device last night on the occasion of New Year’s Eve that began at 10:00 p.m. and ended at 10:00 a.m. this Thursday to guarantee citizen safety, public order and mobility on the road network, in which some 1,800 officers throughout Catalonia participated. The ministry has detailed that, of the 117 people arrested, 46 were for crimes against property, 10 for crimes of injury, one for a crime against sexual violence and 33 for other acts.
Interior mobilized 1,800 agents throughout Catalonia, who were also in charge of ensuring road safety. The provisional balance in terms of traffic accidents is that of one fatality. in which he travels along the N-II near Malgrat de Mar (Barcelona). The driver of the vehicle and the co-pilot suffered injuries and were taken to the Mataró hospital. The mossos They are investigating the causes of the accident that occurred when the car left the road, fell into a wooded area and caught fire, causing the death of the woman who occupied the back of the vehicle.
The police received the notification at 11:43 p.m. this Wednesday and activated five patrols and, in addition, four fire crews and four units of the Servei d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) were deployed. in traffic accidents on the interurban roads of Catalonia, according to the provisional balance of the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT).
Since New Year’s Eve and until 9:00 a.m. on January 1, Civil Protection received 6,171 calls related to 4,358 incidents related to the celebrations of the arrival of the New Year. Specifically, emergency services received 8.3% of requests for assistance compared to New Year’s Eve 2024, but none of them were serious. The calls were made mainly from the regions of Barcelonès (2,852), Vallès Occidental (578) and Baix Llobregat (415). Firefighters from the Generalitat carried out more than a hundred services related to traffic accidents, opening of homes, urban rescues and fires in homes that were resolved without serious injuries.
At 4:00 in the morning, firefighters had to put out a fire in the dining room of a flat in Tortosa early in the morning – one of the three people affected was evacuated by the emergency service – and another fire in a premises in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona) for which one person was treated by the SEM. Firefighters were also forced to preventively evacuate a hotel in Blanes after a fire broke out in a room and applied the same preventive measure in Martorell after the attic of a building caught fire.
