The Mossos have arrested a man of 30 years as the alleged author of stabbing in recent weeks two homeless people who slept near a shelter in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, ​​attacks that occurred for no apparent reason and could have a racist background.

As reported today by the Mossos, the aggressor, of Albanian nationality, attacked with a knife, a few days apart, two men who slept on the street near a Nou Barris hostel that has a social dining room and overnight stays, reason why it attracts the presence of homeless people who settle in the surroundings of the enclosure.

The first attack took place on the night of July 23, when a 42-year-old Tunisian homeless man was approached on the street by a man dressed in black and with his face covered with a knife in his hand.

The victim managed to avoid the first aggression with the knife, but could not dodge the second stab, which caused injuries that required health care.

Due to the circumstances of the attack, the investigators thought that it could be a random aggression, without obvious motivation, and they raised it at the Coordination Board of the Nou Barris district, in which Mossos, Urban Guard and other municipal services of the City Council participate from Barcelona.

The dawn of August 9 there was an attack of similar characteristics to the previous one. On this occasion the victim was a 39-year-old homeless man with Venezuelan nationality and who slept near the same shelter.

The assault starred him again, without a previous discussion, a man dressed in black, with his face covered and brandishing a knife in his hand.

In this second attack, explains the Catalan police, the aggressor acted more calmly and tried to kill the knives at the level of the heart, although he did not achieve his goal either, since the attacked defended himself in a determined way and only ended up with stab wounds in arms and legs

The researchers managed to identify the alleged perpetrator shortly afterwards: a 30-year-old Albanian man.

While they made the route from the place of the second attack to the home of the investigated, the agents located the knife with which he allegedly committed the aggression inside a container of the Pi and Molist street of Barcelona.

Last Monday, August 12, the mossos arrested the suspect in the occupied premises where he lived in the district of Nou Barris , and it is expected that tomorrow Thursday he will go to court.

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