The Mossos arrest a man wanted for murder in Belgium in Barcelona

Various mossos d'esquadra, in a file photograph. Illustrated Service (Automatic) (Europa Press)

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested a man who was subject to a European arrest warrant for homicide issued by Belgium.

The suspect was identified early Wednesday morning by agents from the Operational Resources Area (ARRO) who were participating in a saturation patrol of the nightlife areas on the Barcelona seafront.

The magistrate of the National High Court Santiago Pedraz, head of the Central Investigating Court number 5, on duty this Thursday, has ordered his preventive detention, as confirmed by a spokesman for the agency.

The man, Mohamed A., 33, was identified on the city's seafront, near a nightclub, at four in the morning on Tuesday.

One of the

participating in the preventive patrolling saw him hesitant as he passed near the policemen and decided to identify him.

The suspect, who was with a companion, gave them a name and an age that did not match his appearance.

With subsequent efforts, the Mossos verified that an arrest warrant weighed on him in Belgium.

The Belgian authorities had been looking for him since last Saturday, June 18, accused of killing another man in a fight at dawn.

The police suspect that he is the author of the stab wounds to the chest to the victim, who was found dead in Brussels.

They have also been able to trace his escape, by train to Cologne (Germany) and from there to Barcelona, ​​where he has finally been arrested.

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