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Barcelona Court Suspends Miguel Ricart’s Two-Year Drug Sentence Under Conditions

If he satisfies the terms, the conviction will be extinguished on April 9, 2027.

Overview

  • The case was resolved by a plea agreement after Ricart and two co-defendants admitted small-scale distribution of cocaine and heroin.
  • Judges ordered a two-year suspension of the prison term conditioned on no new offenses and a €2,500 payment, with any breach reactivating incarceration.
  • Police arrested the trio on December 20, 2022 after surveillance of a Raval apartment used as a narcopiso for street-level sales.
  • Officers seized narcotics, adulteration tools, two precision scales, a plastic pistol, €147 in cash, and a camera aimed at the door during the raid.
  • Ricart, the sole person convicted in the 1992 Alcàsser murders and released in 2013 following the European court’s ruling on the Parot doctrine, recently apologized for a retracted claim made in a YouTube interview.