The Interior Minister, Núria Parlon, did not rule out on Tuesday denouncing those from the far right who have linked the authorship of the Manresa crime to migrant minors. “We cannot blame a group of people for the very serious acts committed by certain individuals,” she lamented in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, where she specified that the two 16-year-old minors arrested accused of killing a 45-year-old man in Manresa on Tuesday morning are Catalan. One has Catalan parents as well, and the other, parents from outside, she specified.
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The Interior Minister referred both to the statements of the leader of Aliança Catalana, Sílvia Orriols, and the Vox leader, Ignacio Garriga, who have linked the crime to Moroccan people through their accounts on X. “They should take a look at themselves,” Parlon said, referring to the “xenophobic associations” by both.
The homicide early Tuesday morning in Manresa of a 45-year-old gardener, Carles Vilajosana, very popular and well-known, has caused shock in the Bages region. The City Council has called for a minute of silence at noon and has decreed a day of mourning. At the same time, far-right groups have called protests in the city to condemn the crime they link to migrant minors.
The Interior Minister explained that it is planned that the two detainees will be brought before the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office this Wednesday. Both have records, according to police sources, and lived in an occupied apartment in the municipality that has previously caused problems for the Mossos d’Esquadra.
Parlon denounced that the solution to this type of situation cannot be exclusively police-based. And she insisted that it is a problem that raises “alert” about what educational, family, and social variables have led them to this situation. “We must reflect on what is happening to us as a society for two minors with their whole future ahead to end up committing a very serious crime,” she expressed.
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