Los Mossos d’Esquadra come “calmer” regarding previous editions the festivals of La Mercè de Barcelona 2025since since they started September 24 until Saturday There have hardly been remarkable incidentsbeyond assistance and emergency incidents that are framed within normality in the Catalan capital.
This was explained by the regional regional chief of the Catalan police, the inspector Toni Pérezwhich leads and coordinates the night device of the parties that Europa Press has been able to attend this Saturday, and that until 01.00 on Sunday has registered a detention By attack on authority.
Specifically, the Mossos have watched with special devices six “critical areas” of the city, that have been identified based on activities that congregate more people and may have greater risk, so they see necessary reinforce security with more than twenty agents in each of them.
These special devices-who have their own command-have been deployed in Paseo de Graciaby the celebration of the correfoc; the area of the Bogatell and of the Avenue of Maria Cristina, For their respective concerts; as well as the downtown area where there are also musical proposals, with police presence in Plaza Catalunya, Rambla del Raval and El Moll de la Fusta.
In them, the Mossos have activated the Citizen Security Unit (USC), the ‘Furas’ (countryman agents), the Guilles Unit (Regional Motorcycle Group), and members of the Regional Area of Operational Resources (Arro) and the Mobile Brigade (Brimo), which are responsible for clear the areas with more influx of people once the acts have finished so that the cleaning equipment can perform their tasks.
In addition, the Catalan police have also activated the Drone unit and that of Subsoil To monitor the streets of the city, and it is also coordinated with the Urban grandse (Gub) and the health services of Red Cross and the Medical Emergency System (SEM).
Air Surveillance
One of the troops of the Drone unit has explained that thanks to this device you can watch from the air The points with the most agglomeration of people, in this case from Plaza España, where the Mossos have flown over the area, while in the Bogatell it is the GUB who activates this air surveillance device.
During your flight, The use of other drones is not allowedy Around 9 pm they have detected one that was not authorized And he had to land.
The images, in addition to watching them the agents themselves, are also projected in the room of the Emergency Operational Coordination Center (CECOR)a space that integrates Mossos, Gub, Bombers of Barcelona, SEM and Private Metro Surveillanceand that allows activating the necessary resources in case of emergency by having an “overview” of the city thanks to security cameras.
Thefts without violence and white weapons
As for criminal typology, most crimes are related to Thefts without mobile phones and walletsespecially in areas where there is more concentration of people, such as Bogatell or Maria CristinA, where the ‘furas’ unfold to detect these facts.
However, agents also maintain surveillance to detect the presence of White weaponsespecially after registering a group of people carrying knives at dawn on Saturday in the Bogatell area.
Metro device
Parallel to the device in the streets of the city, the Mossos have also carried out a “filter” of people at the Espanya Metro station, where in addition to checking if users were traveling with a ticket, they have also registered some of them to detect, mainly, drugs and weapons.
According to one of the agents of the ARTU unit-which monitors public transport-, Sergeant Álex Martínez, These controls are “random”they usually last an hour and also serve to identify suspicious peopleas well as possible ‘porterists‘which are detected through suburban security cameras.