Crime/Incidents news & information for Barcelona

EUROPOL'S most-wanted criminal on the run and the only woman in the organisation's top 70 fugitives, Tania Varela, has been arested in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona province) after four years of hiding from...

A TEENAGE girl hanging from a concrete beam eight floors up so her friend could take a photo of her had to be rescued from a Barcelona block of flats, Catalunya regional police reported yesterday (Monday).

A POLICE officer guarding an offender who was in hospital shot himself in the toilets on Christmas Day afternoon.

SPAIN'S Supreme Court has ratified the first-ever custodial sentence for human organ-trafficking ever awarded in the country – three members of the same family in the Barcelona area have been jailed for six years...

A DRAMATIC apartment block fire in Barcelona has left one man dead and another in a critical condition with extremely serious burns.

A MAN shot in the eye with a rubber bullet by police during Catalunya's 'banned' referendum has been discharged from hospital after undergoing surgery, and a pensioner who suffered a heart attack when...

A 20-YEAR-OLD man has died from appendicitis after being diagnosed with 'constipation' four times in A&E.

THE bodies of a young couple who vanished a month ago in the swamp in Susqueda (Girona) show 'clear signs of violence' and police are treating their deaths as murder.

TWO bodies have been found in the swamp in Susqueda (Girona province) which are likely to be those of the young couple who vanished a month ago in the area and whose car was later discovered in the water.

A BAKERY explosion in central Barcelona has left 21 people injured, one of whom is in a critical condition, but authorities stress that the blast was an unfortunate accident and not a deliberate act of destruction.

POLICE evacuated the area around Barcelona's iconic 20th-century Sagrada Família cathedral at 20.30 this evening (Tuesday) after a 'suspicious white van' was seen in the area, but have since confirmed it...

A SHOPPING centre in Barcelona was evacuated at 15.30 this afternoon (Sunday) after a 'suspect' rucksack was found, but police confirmed two hours later that it had been a false alarm.