Miguel Ricart has committed a crime again, this time in Barcelona.

The man convicted of the rape and murder of the Alcàsser girls has been arrested this Tuesday in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona in a drug-store by the Mossos d'Esquadra.

The agents had been watching the property for weeks due to the neighborhood problems they generated until the agents, with a court order, entered the apartment and arrested three occupants.

One of them was Ricart, who was allegedly responsible, according to 'La Vanguardia' and police sources have confirmed this medium.

Mossos and Guardia Urbana agents were able to identify Ricart, who had greatly changed his physical appearance after being released from prison in 2013. He was sentenced to 170 years in prison on September 5, 1997 for the kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of three fourteen and fifteen-year-old adolescents Miriam García, María Deseada "Desirée" Hernández and Antonia "Toñi" Gómez.

Their bodies were found buried in January 1993 in a mountainous area in the town of Tous.

With the 'Parot doctrine', his sentence was reduced to 21 years and he was released from prison in 2013. Since then he has been going around first in Córdoba and then between Barcelona and Madrid.

Precisely last year the Police found him in a squat in the Carabanchel district of Madrid when he was allegedly going to buy drugs.

He had been in the Raval in the center of Barcelona for months and this Tuesday he was arrested in a drug store.

The Mossos accuse him of a crime of drug trafficking.

He is expected to go to court this week.

The arrest comes a month after the Investigating Court number 6 of Alzira, which directs the investigation of the separate piece of the Alcàsser case that remains open, has ordered several tests of remains found in the grave where the three minors were buried after be killed.

Ricart was the only one prosecuted and convicted, while the other suspect, Antonio Anglés, is still in search and capture.

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