Rapper Murad’s Dangerous Friendships with Trinitarios | News from Catalonia

Murad’s life seems to involve parallel and irreconcilable realities: on the one hand, there is the urban music idol, who, with nearly 13 million monthly listeners on Spotify, travels across Europe, filling stadiums and earning applause; On the other hand, the street youth who remains trapped in the toxic dynamics of the neighborhood of La Florida, in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), is always stuck in prison, unable to put his struggles with the justice system behind him, and is tried by the police. The final chapter in this official Chico path represents a surprising turn of the scenario: a judicial investigation revealed the rapist’s ties to the dangerous Latin group Trinitarios, formed by citizens of Dominican origin and described by the judge of the case as “extremely violent.”

Los Mossos y la Policía has 15 members in this criminal group that specializes in violent assaults with firearms and whose main stronghold in Catalonia is L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. The band’s “meeting point” was, in particular, a hairdresser in the Florida neighborhood named Fujimori, who, according to the court order ordering the entries and recordings, is owned by Mourad Al-Khatti Al-Harim, the rapper’s real name. What Trinity There they met and authenticated protected testimony, in several surveillance operations, by agents who recorded the location by court order. Defense sources confirmed that the singer did not want to be the owner of the “mentioned” item.barber shop Fujimori,” although they only admit that he maintains friendly relations with people of Dominican descent who are prominent members of the band.

The protected certificate confirmed that the hairdresser’s on Catalunya Street was the general headquarters of both the Trinitarios and a group called MDLR “aligned with the Dominicans and Moors” of which Murat was part. MDLR is an abbreviation for Mick de la Rue “Chico de la Calle.” It’s a concept that Murad deeply identified with, and which he turned into a brand: he sells T-shirts and sweatshirts made by Adidas with these abbreviations. “According to the testimony, there was a good relationship between the two groups, as Murad would be responsible for facilitating smuggling operations in Los Trinitarios,” the car admits. Fuentes de la defensa niegan categorically any connection between the singer and drug trafficking.

Murad is not among those detained in the newsroom and is not required to be investigated in the case. They assured defense sources that “if there was any strong evidence or test, he would be detained and not there,” stressing that in previous investigations against Trinitarios their name appeared without further consequences for him. The investigation, which began this week and was led by a judge from L’Hospitalet, looks into six new criminal acts, mostly violent assaults, committed by the band between February and August 2025. In one of them also appears, albeit in an aside, the name of the rapist.

“Teradera” vs. Murad

In the early hours of June 25, 2025, Kerlin Eubandi M. On a motorcycle from Can Vidalet’s recording studio, in L’Hospitalet, he noticed that someone was following him. He’s also a rapper, but he’s currently successful with his company: his stage name is TheBlon02 and he’s heard every month by… five people. But somehow, I think he caught Murat’s attention when he composed a “teradera” (in musical parlance, a song written to insult, without many remeljos, another artist) against him. He announced, as the car learned, that “he did not have any problems with Nadia, but as a result of his full-time rapping, he had problems with Murad (…) and since then, he has been receiving threats on social media.” At least that’s how TheBlon02 explains to himself the police behind the ambush he suffered that night by Triad leaders in Catalonia.

Followed by two of them, the rapper left for the square where he was waiting for the others. Enrique Manuel C, alias VegetaHe took out a gun he was carrying hidden in the front of his waist and shot him. The man ran at full speed on the scooter while bleeding from his right foot. After arriving home, we called an ambulance and were taken to the hospital where he had the operation. TheBlon02 also said that the brother of one of the attackers “had a big relationship with Murad” and threatened him directly on Instagram.

Defense sources confirm that there is no connection between the rappers and these figures and indicate personal statements between the artists. EL PAÍS newspaper examined the lyrics of the five songs published by TheBlon02, but in none of them there is any reference (explicit or veiled) to Murat, but they also show a hope of victory (“por qué si otro puede / por qué no voy a poder”, in ethnic), challenging the police (“no me paran ni los mossos”, in Fast and furious) or directs himself angrily against an enemy about whom nothing more has been said: (“No me hables de la calle por yo nací en el medio,” en Boom).

Murad was arrested a few days ago (and left free) for allegedly violating the arrest warrant against his stepfather, whom he threatened because he mistreated his mother. The investigation remains open. His clashes with the local police in L’Hospitalet remain ongoing, although 2024 has been a particularly difficult year for him. And in the fever, before the years of imprisonment due to the events that occurred while recording a video clip in the Florida block, the scene of his first songs, three years ago. In April, he went to prison for a few months to serve an aggravated sentence for committing a crime against traffic security; Although the sentence was shorter (six months), the Public Prosecution refused to suspend it due to repeated crimes. In October, after two years of not being able to set foot in the neighborhood, I finally called it quits com. destierro And archive the reason for encouraging unrest.