This Wednesday, the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested the man accused of killing another in a fight last Tuesday in Poblenou, Barcelona. The investigation by the Barcelona homicide group of the Catalan police has ruled out that the confrontation was due to the theft of a mobile phone. Based on the images from the security cameras and the accounts of several witnesses of the fight, the confrontation originated when the victim reproached the aggressor, who was riding a bicycle, for crossing him when he was accessing the private parking lot of his building. .
After the first verbal argument, the victim slammed the steering wheel and chased the cyclist down the sidewalk until he caught up with him and they started a fight with punches and kicks. But at no time did a robbery occur. The detainee has no criminal record and when he was arrested he stated that he was not aware that the man with whom he had argued and whom he left conscious on the sidewalk, had died hours later.
The victim, a 58-year-old man, got into a fight with another man in the Sant Martí district, and died three days later in the Mar hospital.
The first police information indicated that the victim arrived home with his car, with the windows down, when a person on a bicycle stole his mobile phone. Which caused the man to follow him with his vehicle, and they ended up a few meters away in a confrontation with blows, from which the victim ended up with serious head injuries from which he died.
The testimony of several people who saw what happened and the police investigation rule out that it was a pickpocket who went after the victim’s cell phone, according to those same sources. Other sources in the case suggest that it could be a traffic argument, something that the Catalan police have not officially confirmed, pending the evolution of the investigation.
The victim had been involved in other violent incidents with neighbors in the neighborhood. With a permanent disability after a motorcycle accident suffered years ago, she had worked in the military arms sector.
