US EditionSpanish police arrest suspects in bid to block MS-13 gang
- On March 27, 2025, Spanish police apprehended 27 suspected MS-13 gang members in multiple cities, including 18 in Madrid, seven in Barcelona, and one each in Tarragona and Guardamar.
- The arrests followed a lengthy international investigation triggered by FBI intelligence and involved collaboration with El Salvador's National Civil Police.
- The suspects faced charges including criminal organization membership, homicide, drug trafficking, and violent robbery within a hierarchical gang structure.
- Officials seized drugs, knives, simulated firearms, gang documents, and phones, and seven suspects were sent to prison while others remained detained.
- Authorities contend the operation severely disrupted MS-13’s planned violent expansion in Spain, marking a second major crackdown since a 2018 mass sentencing.
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Fastening in Spain against Salvadoran gang MS-13
The Spanish police announced on Wednesday that they had arrested 27 people at the end of March as part of an operation to dismantle the violent Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, who intended to settle in the country.
The police disband the Spanish subsidiary of Mara Salvatrucha that was following orders from the U.S.
The National Police has broken up a 'program' of the Mara Salvatrucha MS13 originally from Central America, with the arrest of 27 gang members in Madrid, Barcelona, Tarragona and Alicante who had already been contacted by another criminal organization to commit a murder on request and who, in addition, had the projection of spreading to other countries in Europe. With this investigation, the attempt of this organization, considered as a terroris…
Police prevent the implementation in Spain of the dangerous mara Salvatrucha with the arrest of 27 gang members
Unprecedented police coup in Spain against the dangerous gang of Salvadoran origin Salvatrucha 13. The National Police has arrested 27 alleged members of this organization, recently denounced by the U.S. authorities as a terrorist organization, when they were trying to set up a structure in Madrid and Barcelona dedicated mainly to drug trafficking and hit man. The investigation, initiated at the end of 2023, rushed to the early morning of March …
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