The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested 5 extra folks associated to the Casuals, essentially the most violent faction of the Boixos Nois of FC Barcelona. The newest arrests, between June 26 and July 7, convey to 33 the variety of arrests below the Hydra machine launched at first of June. The ringleader continues to go looking and seize.
With this newest arrest, the Catalan police consider that they are going to put a cease to the escalation of violence by the gang lately. According to the assertion, for the reason that offensive in opposition to the felony group started, they’ve had no information of felony acts linked to the unconventional faction of the Blaugrana membership.
The Casuals are essentially the most radical faction of the Boixos Nois and “one of the crucial violent and harmful gangs in Catalonia”, in keeping with the Catalan police.
The ringleader, in search and seize
So far there are 33 detainees in current weeks, though the ringleader continues to be looked for and captured. It is a structured felony group that operated in Catalonia below the title of ‘Casuals’. They had been essentially the most violent faction of the Boixos Nois, an extremely and far-right group that inspired Barça.
The detainees are accused of crimes of murder, kidnapping, cultivation and trafficking of marijuana, threats, accidents, extortion, public dysfunction within the sports activities subject and felony group.
Numerous firearms, varied bladed weapons akin to knives, catanhas and machetes, in addition to bulletproof vests, have been seized at completely different entrances, which testify to the intense violence with which its members operated.
Narcotic substances, primarily marijuana and anabolics, have additionally been seized, and two indoor hashish plantations that financed their felony exercise have been dismantled.
Common field for attorneys and households of prisoners
The investigation has confirmed the existence of a standard fund that each one members needed to keep with a proportional a part of the advantages obtained from felony actions. The cash was used to pay attorneys and help the households of the prisoners.
The Casuals are one of the crucial violent and harmful factions in Catalonia, in keeping with the Catalan police, who’ve found that they’ve recruited members of recent generations of the so-called “hooliganism” on the rise in Europe.
Attacks on radical sports activities teams
The investigation started after the assault on a bar in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) frequented by radical supporters of RCD Espanyol in November 2022, wherein a number of folks had been injured. These forms of assaults had been widespread throughout the group.
During the investigation, the Mossos have aborted a number of violent actions. At the start of the yr, a gaggle with weapons that wished to assault radicals from Sevilla FC was intercepted in Girona. In June they stopped a deliberate journey to Madrid to assault the radicals of Real Madrid Castilla.
The operation continues to be underway and the mossos will not be ruling out extra arrests. They are searching for the chief of the felony gang who continues to be pending location and arrest. However, the mossos consider that the reorganization capability of the Casuals is restricted in the mean time.
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