Crime/Incidents news & information for Catalonia

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.

THE terrorists who killed 16 people in two attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils (Tarragona province) in August went for a 'tourist weekend' in Paris and visited the Eiffel Tower, according to French interior...

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.

ONE of the injured victims of the Catalunya attacks has died in hospital, bringing the total death toll up to 16.

HALF a million people gathered in central Barcelona yesterday (Saturday) evening in what is believed to be the biggest-ever demonstration in Spain's recent history, in response to the terror attacks in the city and...