On June 9 the Mossos d’Esquadra deployed an important device against the ‘Casuals’ gang, the ultra group of FC Barcelona born within the Boixos Nois that for decades has become an organized crime structure. The Catalan police investigators, who have joined various guided investigations from disparate units, made 25 arrests (12 ended up in jail) for the crimes of kidnapping, possession of weapons, drug trafficking, extortion, belonging to a criminal organization and homicide. However, they could not locate the alleged ringleader of the plot, Ricardo Mateowho has been arrested this Monday afternoon in Blanes.
According to the police report incorporated into the case being processed by the Examining Court number 12 of Barcelona, the Mossos, in collaboration with the National Police, and after months of surveillance and wiretapping, they came to the conclusion that the ‘Casuals FCB’ organization, which was already dismantled in 2010had regenerated again after its main leaders left the prison, two or three years ago, and had adapted to the ‘tree’ cannábico that is lived in Spain, and specifically in Catalonia, since 2015.
In the report, the investigators state: “After the 2010 police coup, the criminal organization ‘Casuals’ was restructured again and, with the end of the prison sentence of its leader, Ricardo Mateo, less than two years ago, has gained strength and evolved significantly, diversifying into the lucrative business of growing and trafficking marijuana.” For this reason, the operation waged against this resurgence was baptized by the police with the name of ‘Hydra’, the mythological being with several heads that was capable of regenerating each time one of its necks was severed.
nested grouping
Throughout the investigation, the Mossos affirm that they have been able to prove “reliably” that all the investigated “They would be part of a very large group of people which, with a stable character, persistent over time and a clear hierarchical organization with a distribution of functions among its members, had a single purpose: to commit crimes to profit and ensure the survival of the criminal enterprise.” Its top officials, according to the police Catalan, they are still “those who were more than 10 years ago” and “their place of recruitment too, the radical animation group of FCBarcelona called Boixos Nois”. Regarding the crime of homicide, the judge wants to clarify what degree of responsibility they have the ‘Casuals’ in two murders.
2023-07-31 20:35:32
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