A FORMER Barcelona dock worker has been killed execution-style while having a coffee after he had dropped off his son at school.

David Caballero Riera, who also coached a local futsal club was shot in the back of the head outside the Trastevere cafeteria in Montgat around 9am on Friday morning.

Witnesses reported that a man ‘of Latin origin’ pulled up on a motorcycle, fired twice from behind, and then drove away.

The Mossos d’Esquadra erected police controls at various roads and intersections in an effort to catch the killer.

The assassination has not surprised legal sources in Catalunya, who have frequently tried to prosecute Caballero for various narco trafficking offences.

A well-known character at the Port of Barcelona, he had been investigated for his involvement with ‘corrupt mafia’ a number of times.

However, he has always managed to wriggle away from prosecution amid rumours that he was a high-level confidential informant.

Only last December he went to trial for his involvement in a brawl in the stands of a five-a-side football match in 2022 when he was president and coach of the Barceloneta Futsal futsal team.

It has been reported that he stepped away from working in the port directly a few years ago, and instead had been managing a luxury car dealership since 2021.

Catalan police are investigating the motive for the crime, although it suggests a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.


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Sinaloa cartel ???

it's possible, Sinaloa cartel is increasing heavily its activities across Europe

Are they in the UK?

Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has reportedly teamed up with a Romanian gang to ship drugs to the UK

https://www.businessinsider.com/mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-work-with-romanian-gang-drugs-to-uk-2017-7

Sinaloa cartel has sought to build criminal networks in the EU over last five years. It is known to forge partnerships with existing organizations.

I think that report is connected to an article of 2017, which was discarded not long after. Romanian gangs are rather small players in the European underworld all things considered and they're mostly involved in theft (usually gypsies), ATM skimmings and prostitution. In the drug game - especially the cocaine trade - they're not even close to being on the level of organizations in for instance Italy, Albania/Kosovo, Serbia/Montenegro, the UK, Ireland or the Netherlands.

If I remember correctly there were definite links established between a criminal organization from Liverpool (based in the Speke area) and Sinaloa cartel operatives, but the Speke guys got busted a few years ago.

I agree TKJ we don't read much about the Romanians are they less active or under the radar?

Romanian Mafia gangs in the Americas are different than those in the EU, where in the Americas the Romanian mafia has built a very lucrative pact with the Sinaloa Cartel.

Funny fact

Lazar Edeleanu 1 September 1861, Bucharest – 7 April 1941, Bucharest) was a Romanian chemist of Jewish origin.[1] He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil.