Overview
- The police said their 'maximum' operation on Sunday, November 1 deployed more than 700 Mossos d'Esquadra and Guàrdia Urbana officers and prevented a repeat of last weekend's vandalism and looting.
- Authorities identified 2,264 people across Catalonia during the operation and made ten detentions, three in Barcelona, while continuing nationwide probes into online organizers.
- Investigations have led to about a dozen arrests across Spain and a magistrate ordered pre-trial detention for an 18-year-old accused of 'dynamizing' a channel that encouraged the October 24 looting.
- Officers seized balaclavas, knives, pyrotechnics and glass-breaking tools and filed 181 reports for carrying potentially dangerous items during the sweep.
- Police said many of those identified were minors and that officers used a clothing profile of dark clothes and hoods for checks, a tactic denounced by critics who say it risks profiling and raises civil‑liberties concerns.