Police have dismantled a criminal group dedicated to drug trafficking in the Bellvitge district of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. The operation, carried out jointly by the National Police and the local Guardia Urbana, led to the arrest of two suspects, while a third is under investigation.
Officers conducted two searches, seizing €9,700 in cash, more than half a kilo of cocaine and 46 grams of cannabis. They also confiscated two high-end mobile phones believed to have been used in the trafficking network. The raids followed weeks of surveillance which confirmed that drugs were being sold regularly to local users in the area.
Authorities described the operation as part of an ongoing strategy to target retail-level trafficking that fuels wider organised crime. The arrests add to a series of recent actions in L’Hospitalet, a municipality that has become a focal point for anti-drug policing in the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Why it matters: Beyond the seizures, the operation underlines the persistence of small but entrenched drug networks in Catalonia’s largest urban areas. Local officials argue that visible enforcement in neighbourhoods like Bellvitge is essential to community confidence as well as public health.
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Source: El Periódico
