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.