He Central Persons Investigation Area of the Mossos d’Esquadra has been the group of policemen in charge of accumulating a good part of the evidence from which the court of investigation number 12 of Barcelona activated the police coup unleashed against ‘Casuals FCB’ on June 9.
According to a police report consulted by this newspaper, the Mossos, in collaboration with the National PoliceAfter months of surveillance and wiretapping, they have come to the conclusion that the ‘Casuals FCB’ organization, a faction that emerged from the Boxes Nois of the FC Barcelona that already was dismantled in 2010had regenerated again after its main leaders left the prison, two or three years ago, and had adapted to the cannabis boom that is lived in Spain, and specifically in Catalonia, since 2015.
same leaders
In the report, the investigators express this conclusion in the following words: “After the police coup in 2010, the criminal organization ‘Casuals’ was restructured again and, with the end of the prison sentence of its leader Ricardo Mateo, it will make less After two years, it has gained strength and evolved significantly, diversifying into the lucrative business of growing and trafficking marijuana”. For this reason, the operation waged against this resurgence of ‘Los Casuals’ was baptized by the police with the name of ‘Hydra’the mythological being with several heads that was capable of regenerating every time one of its necks was severed.
Throughout the investigation, the Mossos affirm that they have been able to prove “reliably” that all those investigated “would be part of a very large group of people who, with a stable character, persistent over time and a clear hierarchical organization with a distribution functions among its members, had a single purpose: to commit crimes for profit and to ensure the survival of the criminal enterprise”. Its top managers, according to the Catalan police, continue to be “those who were more than ten years ago” and “its place of recruitment as well, the radical animation group of FC Barcelona called Boixos Nois.”
Two unsolved homicides
In the latter, 27 people have been arrested, 12 of whom have been remanded to jail and the rest have been released with charges. The leader, Ricardo Mateo, is missing because when the investigators tried to arrest him he was not at home. The Generalitat chose to distribute the 12 main investigated in different prisons to avoid that they could intimidate the rest of the prisoners if they coincided in a single penitentiary center.
The legal case is open for the crimes of homicide, kidnapping, gun possession, drug traffic, extortions and membership in criminal organization. On the crime of homicide, specifically, the judge wants to clarify what degree of responsibility the ‘Casuals’ have in two recent murders of traffickers.
The first is that of the brother of Rachid Gdarirapper known as ‘The Sardine’. Mohamed Gdari was shot dead in Badia del Valles last February. A gunman surprised him next to the Golden betting shop, on Zaragoza street in the town, shot him and then fled on a bicycle. Mohamed, like Rachid, was a trafficker. The wiretapped telephone conversations captured conversations between some investigated who say, according to the police, that they had information about the case.
The second murder with which the case links other of the detainees – not the majority – is that of another trafficker who was murdered in a brothel in Gràcia a month later, in March. The material authors of that crime, already arrested and imprisoned, were surprised when They transported his corpse wrapped in plastic –to get rid of him– along the Via Augusta.
Violence, extortion and cannabis
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The Mossos report also includes violent actions by some of those investigated against supporters of the Sevilleof the Osasuna and of the Spanish. Against the former, some detainees tried to launch an attack in Girona. Against the latter, some suspects allegedly assaulted two separate bars where rival members were, causing destruction and serious injuries.
The crime of kidnapping investigated is related to an episode during which a Moroccan citizen was illegally detained, beaten and severely threatened to obtain information about a marijuana plantation. The extortions are, as had happened in the past, before the 2010 coup, a mechanism that the ‘Casuals’ supposedly use to intimidate nightclub owners with the aim of getting them to be hired to take charge of the security of the premises.