The aggressor and the victim of the crime on Bartrina Street in Terrassa were friends who ended up fighting for absurd reason: One reproached the other for missing a previous appointment, according to the sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO. This disagreement caused a disagreement between them. verbal escalation who ended up physically confronting them this Wednesday at noon, in the middle of the street, in front of the deceased’s home.
During the fight, the aggressor, a 24-year-old young man of Spanish nationality, ended up allegedly striking a stab the victim, a 21-year-old young man from Uruguay, in the chest. It was a wound that proved fatal despite the efforts of the System d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) paramedics deployed to the scene, who performed the pertinent resuscitation maneuvers on the man without success.
Investigators from the North Metropolitan Police Region of the Mossos d’Esquadra They took over the case as soon as it was confirmed that it was a homicide. And it didn’t take long for the stabbing suspect to be arrested a few hours later. The victim’s family explained to the agents what had happened, that the perpetrator of the crime was a friend of the deceased and that he did not live far from there. The police arrested him near his house.
After being arrested, the suspect also had to be treated by EMS because he had suffered a stab wound to his leg supposedly during the fight. The detainee, according to the sources consulted by this newspaper, did not deny being the author of the fatal stabbing but did claim to have only used the knife to defend. According to this initial version, which the investigator must expand and maintain in front of the judge who will interrogate him in the next few hours, it was the victim who tried to attack him with a knife in the first place.
The police investigation, which is not under summary secrecy, has no doubts about the authorship of the crime, although it must verify the suspect’s story and try to reconstruct how the events happened emphasizing why the perpetrator of the homicide went to the victim’s home and, above all, why he did so carrying a knife. The agents must also investigate whether the victim also left her home with a knife to meet the friend with whom she had become angry.
The Terrassa attacker has a police record for participating in a previous fight and for a drug trafficking crime.
Increase in edged weapons
The presence of weapons on this occasion has been decisive in the argument between the two ending in a crime. It is not an isolated case: for two years both the Mossos and local police and the Barcelona Urban Police have warned that there has been grown worryingly the number of young people who go out into the streets, or who go to parties, armed with knives. At the end of 2022, the Catalan police activated a specific plan to detect the presence of knives in youth or nightlife gatherings.
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In Catalonia, a total of 1,823 crimes involving a knife were committed throughout 2022, according to data from the Mossos. This figure represented an increase of 44% compared to 2019, prior to the pandemic and during which criminal activity was similar to that of that year.
Also during 2022, 6,267 people were reported for carrying a knife on public roads. This volume represented an increase of 88% compared to 2019.