The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested a 23-year-old man who had not been re-entered in a Catalan jail in April 2021, after having fun with an abnormal allow. The prisoner was serving a seven-year sentence that led to September 2024 for against the law of murder that passed off in 2017. The convicted particular person has been arrested in a city in Switzerland. In November, the Mossos arrested a drug trafficker who had fled from German justice in Barcelona.
The investigations allowed the investigators to confirm that the convicted particular person had managed to flee the nation and had settled within the northern a part of Italy, on the border with Switzerland. They additionally verified that the inmate had loads of geographical mobility they usually had been in a position to place him in numerous European nations in a brief time period.
The mossos maintained fluid communication with totally different European police forces with a view to find and arrest the fugitive. When they discovered that the particular person being investigated was exterior Spain, they requested a European arrest and give up order (OEDE) from the Provincial Court of Barcelona.
Waiting to be transferred to Catalonia
At the start of 2023, the fugitive was positioned in a Swiss city very near the Italian border and the Swiss police had been in a position to arrest him beneath this EAW.
On February 3, he was extradited to Madrid, the place he has entered a jail ready to be transferred to the Catalonia jail within the coming days, the place the sentence imposed on him will finish.
The Active Investigation Group on Fugitives has managed to find a complete of 24 inmates exterior of Spain who haven’t been re-admitted to Catalan prisons, because of collaboration with different police forces, and has been in a position to arrest them and re-enter penitentiary self-discipline to serve their sentences. that they had imposed.