A 28-year-old man has been arrested by the Mossos d’Esquadra in connection with a seemingly random and unprovoked knife attack on a woman in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. The incident, which left the victim with a significant facial wound, has heightened community concerns, particularly as it follows a similar unsolved assault in the same municipality last month.
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The attack occurred at approximately 9 PM on Wednesday, March 11th. Emergency services received a call reporting a woman stabbed in the face with a knife at number 9 on Carrer de Ramon Llull. According to an initial report by El Caso, police sources confirmed the victim and her assailant were complete strangers, with no prior argument or interaction.
Several Mossos patrols responded to the scene, finding the victim bleeding heavily from a facial cut. Paramedics from the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) treated her before transferring her to a local hospital for further care.
A Swift Arrest
Officers immediately gathered information from the victim and eyewitnesses. Witnesses provided a crucial description of the attacker: a man wearing a black jacket and a white tracksuit. They also informed police the man fled the scene after the attack, hiding in a nearby establishment on Avinguda de la Generalitat, roughly 800 metres away.
This information enabled agents from the Mossos’ Urban Crime Group (GDU), a rapid-response unit also known as Fura, to quickly locate the suspect. Police found him accompanied by his father and took him into custody. Police sources confirmed the suspect is a Moroccan national with several prior police records. He is currently held on suspicion of causing injury (delito de lesiones).
Unsettling Parallels to a Previous Attack
The Mossos d’Esquadra’s Investigation Unit (UI) has taken over the case, seeking to determine the motive behind this violent, senseless act. Detectives are also investigating a strikingly similar incident that occurred in Santa Coloma weeks earlier.
On Sunday, February 15th, an elderly woman suffered very serious neck injuries after a stabbing on the same Avinguda de la Generalitat where this week’s suspect was found hiding. In that case, the attacker was described as a man dressed in black who escaped towards the Barri del Fondo neighbourhood. No arrests have yet been made in connection with the February attack, and authorities have not officially confirmed a link between the two cases.
These violent incidents highlight ongoing public safety concerns across the Barcelona metropolitan area. Recently, a man was critically injured in a Sant Martí warehouse stabbing, while police investigate a brutal group assault in the city’s Ciutat Vella district. The investigation into the Santa Coloma stabbing continues as police work to understand its motive.
