MADRID, Spain – A man has been shot dead in the early hours of Thursday morning in a room at the Joan XXIII University Hospital in Tarragona, where he was admitted, according to the Mossos d’Esquadra.
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The patient had been hospitalised as a result of a shooting in Salou on 16 October, in what is the ninth firearm homicide in Catalonia this year, compared with eight in 2025. The man, of Turkish nationality according to initial reports, had been guarded by Catalan police officers during the days he spent in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Shortly after 3am, the Mossos received a call that a patient had been attacked with a firearm at the Joan XXIII Hospital, with several patrols deployed to the scene, where a police station is in fact located a very short distance away.
The victim was seriously wounded and died shortly afterwards despite medical assistance, with the Medical Emergency System activating a psychological support team to attend to health professionals.
In parallel, the Mossos d’Esquadra and Tarragona’s Urban Guard deployed a containment operation until this morning to control the exits from the city, though there have been no arrests.
The Criminal Investigation Division of the regional police has taken charge of the case under a secrecy order to determine the circumstances of events that point to a dispute linked to organised crime.
According to the Catalan News Agency, the man was admitted to the hospital following another shooting in Salou in mid-October, an incident in which he was wounded and which took place at around 8.15pm on Carrer del Prat d’en Carbó, near Plaça Europa in the town. The same day saw another firearm killing in Badalona, where a man was shot at a tattoo parlour.
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Following what happened in the early hours of Thursday, the Medical Emergency System activated a psychological support team to attend to the hospital’s health professionals who had to witness the events. In recent months, alongside the rise in activity dedicated to cannabis cultivation and trafficking, the Mossos d’Esquadra have warned of a progressive increase in the possession, display and, above all, use of firearms both among organised crime groups and at lower levels of gangs dedicated to criminal activity.
