An 24 year old and of french nationality was shot to death Monday night in downtown Salou (Tarragonès). The first statements from customers of bars in this tourist area explained that they were at least three suspects who approached the victim, without initial discussion, and riddled him. One of the attackers was reduced shortly after by citizens until the first police patrol, from the local body of the municipality, arrived at the scene. The Mossos d’Esquadra They have opened an investigation to find the other two involved. The case has shocked several of the witnesses to the attack, according to some of those present expressed on social networks after seeing a crime live while they were having dinner.
Around 10:50 p.m., a local Salou police patrol received notice from citizens that there had been a murder on Saragossa street, in front of the restaurant Grandpa. Upon arrival, the uniformed officers found a man lying on the ground, held by citizens, who claimed that he was the material author of a murder. Not far from the place, there was a young man, also lying on the ground, wounded by several shots. He was unconscious. He presented more than two and three shots, police sources point out, although it will be the autopsy that will determine how many bullets he has received.
Citizens holding the suspect stepped aside for police officers to arrest him. During the search, they detected that he was wearing tied to the ankle and hidden under the pants a pistol. It was a finding that also exposed the high risk that the citizens who reduced it had assumed. The detainee is also a French national and is 32 years old.
In a video captured by witnesses, published by this newspaper, it can be seen how the citizens held the suspect until the arrival of the local police patrol.
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The patrol notified the Mossos and the Medical Emergency System (SEM). The ambulance arrived and the toilets proceeded to revive the victim, who was already found unconscious. The doctors’ efforts proved futile and her death was confirmed.
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The Mossos, after being notified by the local police, activated a ‘Gàbia’ device confined to the outskirts of Salou, with the aim of preventing the two suspects that the witnesses spoke of from fleeing the municipality. The ‘gàbia’ device is the same one that was activated in Barcelona after the 17-A attack. He forced the terrorist Youness Abouyaaqoub to open fire on a Mossos patrol in order to overcome it. Tonight’s didn’t work. The two suspects involved in the young man’s murder are still missing and the case has gone to court. Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) that does not rule out that there are more authors.
The main hypothesis that the investigators handle is that it was a reckoning due to the absence of an initial fight. The assassins had come to kill him. According to the sources consulted by this newspaper, the perpetrator of the murder is one of the two who could have fled.