by The investigation Over the riots at the festival Delaware Molins de Rey has been closed with 17 arrested, as explained in the last Local Safety Board. Among those arrested are one minor and four repeat offendersaccused of violent robberies, disorders and damages, as detailed by the Mossos.
The police forces, meeting on Friday, announced that they will carry out “organizational work for the upcoming holidays to prevent events of this type from occurring again.” During the meeting, the chief commissioner of the Mossos d’Esquadra in the South Metropolitan Region, Miquel Esquius, explained that “there was no precedent to think that these events would occur” and that “it was totally unpredictable”.
Closing of the investigation
Esquius has also assured that they have carried out an “exhaustive investigation” and that They do not find “any common element among the detainees“, so they think it is “a sporadic event.” The Local Safety Board was held almost three months after the incidents with the aim of carrying out a “complete closure” of the investigation.
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According to data from the Department of the Interior, the ratio of criminal incidents in Molins de Rei with 54.2 incidents per 1,000 inhabitants is below the Catalan average with 77.6 incidents. Total crimes in the city increased by 6.8 percent while in Catalonia as a whole it increased by 7.8 percent.
For its part, arrests have increased by 29.7 percent and the Interior assures that “the resolution increases by almost one point.” Regarding the number of officers, in the last three years the Sant Vicenç dels Horts and Sant Feliu de Llobregat police stations that serve Molins de Rei, have incorporated a total of 57 new officers.
