Overview

• Guardia Civil’s Operación Trepamuros in Puerto Serrano led to eight arrests tied to a narco clan, with six suspects sent to provisional prison on charges including kidnapping, torture, drug trafficking and illegal weapons, and one suspect still sought.
• Barcelona’s homicide unit is investigating the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old Honduran in Sants-Montjuïc after a mass brawl involving at least seven people, with a second minor hospitalized and no confirmed gang link at this stage.
• National Police in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria arrested a 40-year-old man after his 78-year-old mother was found stabbed to death at home, as investigators work to determine the motive.
• A detainee in Gijón accused of stabbing a 22-year-old was released with charges and a restraining order, while the victim was discharged from hospital after treatment.
• Police logged further violence including a hammer fight linked to a suspected ‘narcocasa’ in Vilagarcía and a machete attack thwarted by a passerby in Valencia, and in Argentina a recorded street killing in Tandil enabled the swift arrest of a suspect.