Mossos d’Escuadra They arrested five people, four of whom have already gone to prison.and eliminated the group that committed fifteen very brutal robberies of telephone transfer and money transfer pointsrun mostly by members of the Pakistani community, in Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona).

As reported on Wednesday in a statement by the Catalan police, the detainees who received production around 140,000 euros cash and fifty mobile phones and computers, they acted “extremely” brutally and used firearms and very harmful industrial weapons to attack the premises.

After going to court this morning, four out of five detainees placed in preventive detention by order of the head of the Court of Investigation No. 4 of Badalona, ​​in an open case on the crimes of a criminal organization, robbery with violence and intimidation and injuries, as reported by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

The violence during the robberies alerted the Mosso, who began investigating the gang starting in February last year, although there is evidence that they have been working as a group since the end of 2022.

The organization whose leader is among those arrested had a well-defined structure, so that the roles were very delimited to share the material authorship of the heistselling stolen items and selling cash they took from establishments.

Some Pakistani media repeated this wave of attacks on the premises run by their compatriots in Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, as members of that community felt threatened when they learned they were the group’s main targets, according to Mosso.

After several months of Mosso’s investigation Last Monday they arrested five suspects and searched nine premises and addresses.in which very dangerous firearms and industrial weapons, 7,600 euros in cash, as well as hashish and marijuana were seized.

The investigation supervised by the Court of Investigation No. 4 of Badalona is still open to try detain other alleged members of the organization.