The Mossos assault a farmhouse and arrest an entrenched squatter who shot a neighbor

The Mossos d'Esquadra Special Intervention Group attacked a farmhouse in the municipality of Les Llosses (Girona) where the man who lived there had entrenched himself after shooting a 20-year-old resident of a nearby building on the 9 in the morning with a pellet gun.

For hours, the Mossos tried to mediate with the suspect without getting him to leave the farmhouse, for which the special assault group intervened. There was a shootout between the suspect and the police officers.. One agent was injured as well as the entrenched man, for which he was evacuated to the hospital by helicopter.

Agents investigate the reason for the dispute. Police sources tell this medium that it would be a “property issue” since the two lived in a farmhouse located in an area close to the municipality of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà. The suspect had been illegally occupying one of the farmhouse buildings for years and the victim the other.

This Wednesday morning, they got into a fight and the suspect fired a shot at the victim with a BB gun.. The injured man had to be treated by an ambulance and transferred to the Parc Taulí hospital in Sabadell, although his injury is not serious.

After shooting, the shooter entered the building and announced that he would not come out.. The Mossos deployed a strong device in front of the farmhouse and spent hours negotiating with the suspect without getting him to turn himself in. For this reason, the Catalan police intervention group stormed the building and managed to reduce and arrest it.

The deputy inspector of the Mossos in Ripollès, Rafael Manzano, explained that the suspect fired some forty shot at his neighbor with a hunting shotgun before entrenching himself and that he is accused of attempted murder. In addition, he pointed out that all the injuries are minor.