Man jailed for plotting to kill Spanish PM
The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, arrested a man from the town of Terrassa on 21 September for plotting the assassination of Spanish Prime Minister,...
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Grenade-shaped belt sparks train scare
A woman carrying a grenade-shaped belt buckle on a train from Barcelona to Madrid caused havoc on Wednesday, forcing a station to be partly evacuated...
Prosecutors: ‘rebellion’, up to 25 years jail
Spain’s Public Prosecutor called Friday for Catalan independence leaders to be jailed for up to 25 years on charges of rebellion or misuse of public...
Police crackdown in Barcelona against ‘narcoflats’
Hundreds of police backed by a helicopter on Monday raided dozens of apartments in Barcelona, used for selling and consuming heroin and other drugs. Around...
Spain deploys 600 police in Catalonia
The Spanish government will deploy 500 police officers in Catalonia in the run up to ‘La Diada‘, the Catalan National Day, on 11 September, and...
Investigation of Mossos identifying people removing yellow ribbons
The Spanish prosecutor in Catalonia has enquired as to the ‘specific reasons’ why the Mossos d’Esquadra (the Catalan police) identified some 14 people, including an...
Spain knife attacker was ‘gay and suicidal’
A man shot dead as he tried to attack a Mossos d’Esquadra police station had come out as gay and wanted to commit suicide, a...
Political row over yellow ribbons
A group of activists was caught this weekend removing yellow ribbons, which has become the symbol showing solidarity with the political leaders jailed around Catalonia....
Knifeman killed in Mossos police attack
A police officer of the Catalonia regional police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, shot dead a man armed with a knife as he tried to attack a police station...
Catalonia ready to remember terror attacks
Terror struck Barcelona, Cambrils and the whole of Catalonia exactly one year ago, on 17 and 18 August 2017, while half of the country was...
