In May 2023, relatives of a 29-year-old man reported his disappearance at the police station Moss in Granollers (Barcelona). It was only more than a year later, in August 2024, that, “by chance”, someone found his remains in a wooded area of Las Planas. He DNA Match He concluded that it was the same person. They beat him to death over an alleged debt of 70,000 euros with a group of marijuana traffickers, and then their bodies were transported and buried in a limestone tomb. It was last Tuesday that the Catalan police arrested six individuals accused of violent death and concealment of the body. One of them was already in prison, serving a sentence for “other acts of violence,” according to the Corps.
The investigators’ investigations have allowed them to reconstruct what happened. On May 9, three members of the group summoned the victim to Aiguafreda, where they proposed to settle the debt by carrying out a drug attack. During the meeting, given the impossibility of reaching an agreement, They attacked him to death and took him in a car to a remote area.to separate it from the municipality where one of the murderers resided.
Above, search of the home of one of the detainees. Above these lines, one of the seized bladed weapons. On the right, one of the dismantled “covered” plantations.
First, the three individuals they moved the body in Terrasa, where a fourth joined them and finally buried him, at night, in a limestone tomb in a wooded area of Las Planas. Killers and Victim They had met either in “criminal circles” or in prison, while serving sentences for crimes against public health or violence. And the fact is that among the six prisoners aged 41 to 46 – including the one who was already in prison – they have more than 40 criminal records, also for several drug-related assaults.
It was last Tuesday, September 17, a month after the location of the body, that the Mossos exploited the operation of the named Gladium Case. More than 75 military personnel, including the Special Intervention Group (GEI), public order, dogs, scientists and drones, participated in the arrest of the suspects in Aiguafreda, Sant Celoni and Las Planas. The sixth arrest took place in a Catalan prison.
During the search of their home, the officers seized a gunwhich one of the prisoners hid in the cover of a cushion on his bed. Also from a gun with the butt cut off, as well as short weapons, ammunition, knives, a frequency jammer and a bulletproof vest claiming to belong to the National Police. (And which they would probably have used at some point drug aggression).
Two of the houses also housed indoor marijuana plantations, each with 200 plants. In Las Planas, near the area where the corpse of the victimThere were also several bags of lime.
