Overview
- Sant Cugat says an August surge of 324 registrations was largely fictitious, with inspections finding none of the 322 scrutinized individuals actually lived in the city.
- Officials report six files were canceled after confirming registrations elsewhere and 316 are moving through administrative deregistration.
- The Sant Cugat council is drafting a tighter registration protocol with stronger proof of residence, pre-registration in-person checks for flagged cases, and an internal incident log.
- Barberà del Vallès halted 25 suspicious applications across seven homes, opened a probe with Mossos d’Esquadra for possible document fraud and offenses against the rights of foreign citizens, and noted initial arrests.
- Barberà introduced a requirement for the property owner or tenant to appear for new registrations, as Catalan ombudsmen warn that access to empadronamiento should not be blocked for people without a fixed address.