Figueres has started fitting number plate recognition cameras at the main roads into the town. The first 30 cameras will cover 14 points and are expected to start operating in November.
The local council (Ajuntament) began installing the equipment this week. The project costs €400,670.80. Its stated aims are to monitor traffic and improve public safety.
The cameras will not go live until the council finishes expanding the data and image processing centre at the headquarters of the Guàrdia Urbana, the town's municipal police force. That control room is where footage and alerts will be viewed and managed.
Recorded crime fell in both Figueres and Roses in the first half of this year, according to new figures from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. However, drug trafficking offences went up in both towns, and several violent crime categories rose across the province of Girona.
The ministry's statistics compare the first six months of the year with the same period of 2025. Figueres, the capital of the Alt Empordà, registered 1,843 criminal offences, a drop of 8.6%. Roses recorded 788, a fall of 20%.
The data brings together reports from all four police forces working in the area: the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalonia's regional police), local police forces, the Policia Nacional and the Guàrdia Civil. The ministry publishes separate figures only for municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, along with a total for each province.
Two men were injured, one of them critically, after a gas explosion at a rural hotel in Peralada in the early hours of the morning.
The blast happened at Can Carbó, a traditional Catalan farmhouse, or masia, that has been converted into visitor accommodation. The building has a ground floor and two upper storeys and lies within the municipality of Peralada, a few kilometres inland from Castelló d'Empúries.
Tank explosion and fire
Emergency services received the call at 2.18am. A gas tank outside the hotel exploded and the blast immediately started a fire.
The Bombers, Catalonia's fire and rescue service, sent nine ground units. On arrival, firefighters rescued two people. According to the Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques (SEM), the regional emergency medical service, the first was a 47-year-old man in critical condition. He was taken to Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona. The second, a 74-year-old man, had minor injuries and was taken to Hospital Josep Trueta in Girona.
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