A 49-year-old man of Serbian nationality was shot in the leg on Thursday night in a housing development in Lloret de Mar. The victim was abandoned shortly after 11:00 PM at the Blanes regional hospital, where health services initially treated the gunshot wound before transferring him to a more complex center.
The Emergency Medical Service (SEM) transferred the injured person to the Josep Trueta hospital in Girona. There he remains admitted under medical observation, although his condition does not present immediate gravity nor put his life at risk. The agents are now working to clarify the exact dynamics of the shooting and to locate the vehicle or the people who left the injured person at the Blanes health center.
Investigation links attack to Balkan clans
The Criminal Investigation Division of Girona has opened proceedings to determine the circumstances of the event, identify the precise location of the facts, and establish who participated in the aggression. The first investigations point to a possible revenge related to the open war between the criminal clans Skaljari and Kavac.
These factions are linked to international drug trafficking and maintain a bloody dispute that has spread across several European countries. The rivalry between both groups is not an isolated phenomenon on the Costa Brava, but part of a settling of scores strategy that uses Catalan territory as an occasional stage for their confrontations.
The conflict between these organizations has caused between 60 and 70 homicides across the continent. In Barcelona and its metropolitan area, the violence stemming from this struggle has left at least three dead and four shootings recorded in the last ten months. The latest episode in this series occurred in mid-April, indicating a persistence of the threat in the region.
The Mossos intensify investigations in Girona
The Mossos d'Esquadra continue investigations to determine the full extent of the incident that occurred in Lloret de Mar. Investigators seek to identify all those involved in the planning and execution of the shooting, as well as reconstruct the exact timeline of Thursday night.
The presence of victims of Serbian nationality in these episodes reinforces the hypothesis of a connection with Balkan networks. Agents are now gathering testimonies and forensic evidence that will allow this new shooting to be connected with the criminal plot operating in the shadows.
The current priority of the regional police is to prevent this incident from escalating into violence in the tourist area. To this end, they are cross-referencing data with other ongoing investigations in Catalonia related to the same criminal groups.
The Josep Trueta hospital in Girona keeps the Serbian citizen admitted while justice takes statements from the eyewitnesses of the abandonment in Blanes.