Burglaries in homes during this Holy Week in Barcelona decreased by 23.5%, in a new decrease that consolidates the trend of the last year in the city. The balance from the Mossos d'Esquadra also places at 14 the people arrested during the special operation, six of them caught in flagrante delicto in different parts of Barcelona.
This is the second consecutive year in which home robberies decrease during the Easter dates. The operation was developed within the Kanpai plan, with a deployment between March 27 and Monday, April 6 in several areas of the Catalan capital.
Plainclothes and uniformed agents in several neighborhoods
The operation combined uniformed patrols with plainclothes officers to detect suspicious movements and possible criminal acts. The surveillance focused on different neighborhoods of the city with the intention of locating groups specialized in home burglaries.
The investigators put the focus on alleged thieves specialized in the use of false keys with markers, scaling facades, or forcing doors with levers. A good part of these surveillances were reinforced during the nighttime hours.
Six arrested in a single night
The night with the most arrests was that of April 5-6, within the Silent operation, when the Mossos arrested six people. The first action occurred at 2:15 a.m. in Ciutat Vella, where district agents intercepted three people who were trying to enter a building.
The three arrested were carrying tools to open doors and accumulated among them all 63 arrests. Shortly after, around 2:45 a.m., another patrol acted in Sarrià Sant Gervasi upon detecting two suspects. One of them was watching a property and the other had already accessed the interior.
In this second case, the agents verified that they had placed markers on several doors to decide when and how to enter the homes. The two detainees, aged 33 and 37, accumulate three arrests.
A robbery in the Gòtic and an arrest in La Rambla
By around 7:00 a.m., the Mossos of Ciutat Vella received the alert of a robbery with force in a dwelling in the Gothic Quarter. The police action allowed linking that assault with the identification of a man in La Rambla, who ended up arrested.
The arrested person is 30 years old and has five previous records. With this action, the Mossos closed the night with the most activity of the special Holy Week operation.
The data adds to the evolution recorded this year. In 2025, home robberies had already fallen by 26.6% compared to the same period in 2024, a reduction that is now reflected again in the Holy Week balance in Barcelona.