The Cornellà nightclub Capitol has hosted a concert by the rapper tonight Rochy RDa fashionable rapper in the Dominican Republic who is on tour in Spain, where he offers four concerts. After the one in Barcelona, he will sing in Zaragoza. The Mossos d’Esquadrahow did the National Police in Madrid, has considered his performance a risk, fearing, above all, that among his fans there will be young people willing to star in an incident of the seriousness of the one experienced four months ago in fuenlabrada. That night, after a performance on Rochy Rd, a young He died from a shot to the head and three more were wounded by a knife..
Agents from the Mossos, the National Police and the Cornellà Urban Guard have shielded the nightclub to prevent any of the attendees from entering with weapons. First they have searched the premises and, later, they have set up two filters through which each of the Rochy RD fans have had to pass. In total, the police have frisked 350 attendees. The municipal body, in addition, has brought dogs to put their snouts against the followers who had passed the humane inspection.
Although the most dissuasive filter was not the police, but the economic one. The security manager of the establishment, who considers that it has more of a bad reputation than anything else, has explained to EL PERIÓDICO that the price of the table must be added to the 40 euros for the entrance, which fluctuates around 500 euros. The sofas that are on the stage they cost 3,000 euros and there are customers willing to pay them. “Dominicans have come from Swiss and Germany to see it live”, he assured minutes before the venue opened to the public and when it was still full of police looking for drugs or weapons or checking the drinks that will be served and the business papers. Shortly after midnight , the disco has opened its doors.
40 minutes
Rochy RD has sung for 40 minutes. Between three and four in the morning. “These concerts last that long,” confirmed one of the attendees, who added that it was worth paying that price to hear it live. “He is one of the most famous dembow singers,” he added. Dembow is a musical genre of Dominican origin.
Young people, and some adults as well, have patiently gone through the controls: agreeing to allow themselves to be thoroughly searched, showing what they had in their pockets and handing over their documentation. Among the long-suffering fans of Rochy RD there were girls wearing very short dresses for a winter night and also some boy who has unsuccessfully tried to wear a tracksuit. Those responsible for the nightclub ensure that the controls have not altered their forecasts since most of the 350 available seats were already sold.
The National Police has checked the situation of each of the fans in Spain during the searches and has taken those who were in an irregular situation.
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These controls are framed within the Daga device, presented by the Mossos a week ago and which aims to reduce the presence of bladed weapons on public roads and, especially, in nightlife. That is why tonight’s device has included metal shovels to detect the presence of hidden knives but also, in collaboration with the municipal police of L’Hospitalet de Llobregathas served to create supervised itineraries that guarantee the women who have attended the concert that they can return without risk of suffering a sexual assault to the public transport stations.
In Catalonia, throughout 2022, a total of 1,823 crimes involving a knife, according to data from the Mossos. This figure means an increase of 44% compared to 2019, prior to the pandemic and during which criminal activity was similar to that of the last year. As EL PERIÓDICO reported, this figure quantifies police concern regarding the use of knives by, above all, young people and in nightlife settings.