Overview

• Police arrested two minors linked to the April 22 bus-station attack and a third in the June 9 San Juan del Monte festival stall fire after video evidence and witness testimony identified their involvement.
• Investigators allege the suspects targeted a sleeping homeless man with a flaming cardboard box in an attempted homicide aggravated by hostility toward the poor.
• The same group is accused of setting fire to a Peruvian vendor’s stall, causing over €35,000 in damages despite firefighters’ efforts to contain the blaze.
• Recorded taunts such as “vamos a quemar unos panchos” prompted authorities to invoke aporophobia as a hate-crime aggravating factor in both cases.
• The Brigada Local de Policía Judicial and Policía Nacional coordinated to detain the juveniles, who now await criminal proceedings at a youth center ordered by the Fiscalía de Menores de Burgos.