The chronicle of events, surely much more than any other specialty of journalism, requires precision, data corroborated by sources. This one that is starting again has the La Mina neighborhood of Sant Adrià del Besòs as the scene of a shootout between feuding families. An exchange of gunshots left a neighbor who was in a bar shot in the leg. These are objective events that, if they occur in a small space, with just six parallel streets, and an incalculable presence of firearms at the hands of clans fighting for control of drug trafficking, the story delves into the path of the hypotheses about the consequences of this latest shooting.
The incident with a firearm occurred around three in the afternoon on Marte Street, the heart of this neighborhood of humble people in Sant Adrià in which a few have been trying to impose themselves through violence for years. At that time, those responsible for the outpatient clinic alerted 112 to the presence of a woman with a gunshot wound to her leg. The woman was inside a bar and began to hear screams and shots outside. She didn’t even look out. A stray bullet hit one of her legs. Despite the lightness of her injuries, the woman was transferred to the Mar hospital, where she underwent surgery and the projectile was removed from her.
Someone recorded with a mobile phone part of the shooting, the screams and a scene in which two men armed with guns are seen screaming and fleeing the neighborhood in a red car. In the background you can hear the sirens of police cars. When the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Municipal Police arrived, everyone went inside their houses and doors and windows were closed. No one saw anything. Nobody heard anything.
Almost 24 hours later, everyone in La Mina knows that the shooting was between Los Lisardos and Los Portugueses. That the first were allegedly the ones who shot and that the dispute could have started in a place on Goya Street in the Besòs neighborhood in Barcelona. A dispute that would not even be linked to illegal issues, nor drug trafficking, but that degenerated into the sequence of going to look for the guns at home.
Some well-knowledgeable sources in the neighborhood warned this Tuesday of the coincidence of the shooting and other incidents of the previous days with the recent release from prison of several members of the Los Lisardos family. Other equally well-informed sources disassociated this fact from the shooting and insisted on the triviality of the dispute that grew meaningless.
Be that as it may, on Monday night, the Mossos d’Esquadra had to reinforce security at the doors of the Hospital del Mar after fifty relatives of the victim gathered at the doors.
There has been an insistent rumor in La Mina for some time now that warns of a loss of control on the part of the institutions and police forces that work, Mossos and Municipal Police, which caused incidents like the one last month, where several local patrols were received. with bottles thrown from the balconies in front of the statue of Camarón, which caused bruises on several agents. “Either we saturate the neighborhood with uniformed men as was done a few years ago, or we will have a summer of tears,” warns a veteran sadly.
