Overview

• Guardia Civil and Mossos d'Esquadra detained three people on September 2 in a coordinated operation across Catalonia linked to the 2022 shooting of Joan Coromina.
• Those held include a relative of motorcyclist Marc Márquez, a retired Guardia Civil commander, and a Lleida mechanic, according to police sources and outlet reports.
• Coromina, 61, was found fatally shot on January 25, 2022 in the Baronía de Rialb after a single round fired from more than 100 meters, with the projectile recovered near the body.
• The investigation, led by Solsona’s Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 1, drew on witness accounts, detailed phone-antenna analysis, and forensic work on a white Citroën Berlingo linked to the victim.
• Investigative lines favor a planned contract killing connected to Coromina’s smuggling background, and EL PAÍS reports the retired commander is not suspected of directly carrying out the shooting.