The Mossos d’Esquadra They have arrested a man involved in the murder of Moreno Valentineon November 19, 2021. Moreno, 39, died at the Can Ruti hospital after being shot in the head when he was walking down a street in the early hours of the morning. Sant Adria de Besos, where he resided. The Catalan police investigators do not consider the case closed because, according to the sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO, there are more involved in this homicide.
The Catalan policemen consider that Moreno’s was a planned death by rivals from the criminal environment, and drug trafficking, through which he moved. The arrested man, who has entered preventive prison, had actively collaborated in the preparation of this commissioned murder, according to the sources consulted. The Mossos arrested him this Thursday in Barcelona, 15 months after an intense investigation that is still open, in search of the rest of those responsible.
Convicted of murder and racist violence
Valentín Moreno Gómez faced justice for the first time when, while still a minor, he murdered Carlos Javier Robledo Pena. It happened on April 1, 2000. Carlos Javier was a neighbor of 22 years old from Santa Coloma de Gramenet who had gone out to a party that night with two friends. Around eight in the morning, they went to look for the car to return home. But next to the Fiat Bravo, parked in Barcelona’s Vila Olímpica, they found a jacket on the ground, picked it up and began to inspect it. It was a trap set up by Moreno and his group of friends, who pounced on Carlos Javier shouting why they had taken that jacket. It they beat to death. The outbreak of violence, so brutal and gratuitous, shocked Spanish society, which remembers that episode investigated by the National Police as ‘the Vila Olímpica crime’.
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When the murder was committed, in which at least six other people participated, Moreno was a minor – he turned 18 a few hours later – and juvenile justice was applied to him. A judge imposed 12 years of internment in a juvenile center and the Barcelona Court reduced the stay to eight years and another three of probation. Moreno, considered one of the main perpetrators of the murder of Carlos Javier, never apologized to the family or compensated them financially.
On January 9, 2009, Moreno was also involved in a racist attack carried out by the team of the bada binglinked to the Boxes Nois, as remarked a court order. Several members of that team attacked Latin American players from a rival formation, Rosario Central.