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A man wanted over an alleged sexual assault in Badalona was arrested after police found him asleep on a bar terrace in Malgrat de Mar, with documents, bank cards and a mobile phone that were not his.
The man was located on the morning of 27 October after the bar owner called police because he could not wake him. Officers from the local force checked the items he was carrying and began tracing their owners.
That enquiry led them to a bank card belonging to a woman who had reported a sexual assault in Badalona. Police then contacted the Mossos d’Esquadra investigation team in Badalona, which was already working on the case.
Investigators had CCTV images from an ATM which they say showed the suspected attacker. Those images were used to confirm that the man found in Malgrat was the same person under investigation.
He was arrested that same afternoon in a joint operation by the local police and the Mossos. The victim later identified him as the alleged attacker, according to the report, and he was taken before a judge.
A court has ordered him into provisional prison while the case continues.
How the arrest came about
The discovery on the terrace began as a routine call about a man who would not wake up. Once officers checked what he was carrying, the case shifted from a public order incident to a linked sexual assault investigation.
The police work brought together officers in Malgrat de Mar and Badalona, where investigators already had images they believed connected the suspect to the offence.
