The Mossos d’Esquadra last night at the Rambla Prim of Barcelona, in the district of Sant Martí. The victim, the owner of the premises, is admitted to the hospital, in the Intensive Care Unit, according to police sources. In the first health care, when the Mossos arrived at the place, it was not feared for their life, as reported by the Catalan police.
The shots occurred at half past nine at night, on the terrace of the bar, located in the Besòs and Maresme neighborhood of Barcelona. The first investigations suggest that the aggression began with a discussion among some clients, who took something in the establishment, and the owner of the premises. One of them took a gun and shot the man, according to police sources.
So far, the Catalan police have not arrested anyone for the aggression. Mossos investigate the episode, in which once again firearms are used. The Catalan police link the proliferation of guns and long weapons to the increase in marijuana culture. The traffickers buy them to defend the plantations, but they also end up using them in other personal conflicts and end up passing from one hand to another, according to the Mossos analysts.
This summer there have been various shootings in Barcelona. , when a hitman, Filip Knezevic, who worked for a Montegrino clan, the Kavac, was killed at half past four in the afternoon of several shots in Consell de Cent street, in the heart of one of the pedestrianized areas in the Eixample. On August 3, in the same district, Predrag Vujosevic, converted into drug trafficker, linked to the Skaljari clan, faced with the Kavac. The man survived. Mossos investigate whether it is in revenge for Knezevic’s murder.
Since then, episodes with firearms involved have been repeated. As happened on Monday, August 11, in Free Zone, when the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested five people after an exchange of shots against another group, from the car. At least one person was injured. Before, on July 31, a man injured by a firearm went to a clinic in Barcelona, without revealing details of what had happened to him. Only three days before, the residents of Sicily Street warned that they had heard shots and had seen a car fleeing. He spent early in July 28.
In 2024, the shootings detected by the Mossos d’Esquadra (69 episodes). Firearms intervened in crimes also increased by 14% (445, the majority shotguns and guns, but also 21 weapons of war). Police statistics included 538 violent incidents in which a firearm had been displayed or used, which was real in 198 of the incidents, which represents 6.8% more than the previous year.
