Ratified provisional prison for Italian anarchists arrested for burning a urban guard van

The Court of Instruction number 2 of Barcelona has ratified the provisional prison without bail for the eight detainees who would have acted in a group and organized in the riots on Saturday, February 27 in Barcelona for Pablo Hasel's freedom and during which a van ofThe Urban Guard in Las Ramblas, have confirmed judicial sources.

These are five men and a woman of Italian nationality, another French woman and an eighth of Spanish nationality, linked to anarchism.The cause is open for the crimes of homicide in the degree of attempt, attacking agents of the authority, public disorders, damage, demonstration or illegal meeting and belonging to the criminal group.

The Mossos arrested these eight people during the altercations of Saturday and on Monday they registed in two occupied naves of Canet de Mar and Mataró.The Catalan police reported that they formed a "violent and organized" group that they gave dismissed with their arrests, although in their statements they ensure that they were not known.

In the interlocutory of prison, the magistrate of Guard.

That is why the Mossos decided to follow them in the following demonstrations, and on Saturday, February 27 there were several infiltrated agents.The tracking device could observe 15 people who spoke in Italian among them and who, in a "coordinated and very violent" way, caused attacks on businesses and banking entities.

The group was led by two young people with a waterproof with a refractant strip on the back and that gave orders to the rest, even with keywords, immediately compliments.

One of the two leaders carried a hammer with which the shop windows broke, and then another group appeared, which was unknown if they were related to each other, which was dedicated to set the establishments.With this method they assaulted an office of the BANDELL of Hospital Street, one from CaixaBank on Drassanes Avenue, one of Santander in the Plaza de la Boqueria, one of the BBVA in La Rambla, and one of Kutxabank in the Rambla de Catalunya.

They also assaulted Zara's store in Plaza Catalunya, with damages calculated in 500.000 euros, and the NH Hotel de la Rambla Catalunya.

The agents who followed the group were able.Thus, for example, one of the members opened the lighters of the street lamps and others cut the cables to leave the street in the dark.

All group members, in addition to complying with orders, gave coverage to other colleagues, and that is why they violently prevented journalists who recorded their actions and formed a circle to protect the direct authors from the damage.

The group went to the Urban Guard Police Station of La Rambla, where all kinds of objects against the police line and vehicles.One of the imprisoned, to.F., who served as a leader, launched a incendiary object against the agents, but the cocktail hit a tree.Then they threw a flap that ended under the police van, and immediately after they sprayed it with an flammable liquid, which caused the flames that surrounded the vehicle.The driver was able to go through the co -driver's door when he already felt the heat of the flames, and the Mossos who arrived at the scene could turn them off.

According to the magistrate, analyzing the images and the police report, it follows that there was a coordinated action to set the van, regardless of whether an agent had inside.

Police investigation points to.F., Italian, like the person who launched the Molotov cocktail that hit a tree, and s.C.C., Italian, who launched the flammable liquid in the van.The first, in addition, was the one that carried the flammable liquid moments before the facts.

The agents also assure that one of the imprisoned carried a backpack that later carried another of the arrests.In one of the backpacks that abandoned one of these detainees there were 20 incendiary pills, a solvent boat and a rag impregnated with a liquid with a strong smell.The two arrested wore clothes that gave off the smell of solvent or gasoline.Two of those arrested, in addition, were surprised when the waterproof clothes were removed together.

Other elements to determine that they were a group, according to the magistrate, is that they live in the same address and that everyone has an identical and "very singular lighter".

For all this, for the serious penalties that could be the crimes attributed to them, for the fact that seven of them are foreigners and therefore can flee and for the risk of criminal repetition in the next violent demonstrations pro-hahas, the magistratejustified preventive detention.