Overview
- The Audiencia Provincial de Valladolid convicted three members of the Trinitarios on June 22, 2026 and sentenced each to about 11 years in prison for attempted homicide plus a €9,860 indemnity to the victim; time already spent in provisional detention will be credited to their terms.
- Investigators say the attack took place on February 22, 2025 when the three defendants intercepted three young members of rival group Dominican Don't Play on a central Valladolid street, shouted group slogans and assaulted them.
- One victim was knocked down and stabbed three times in the left posterior hemithorax, suffering a moderate pneumothorax and a small lung laceration that required emergency hospital care.
- The sentence records that the defendants were then aged 18, 20 and 23, held in provisional detention since the arrests, and identified as active members of Trinitarios with no prior criminal records recorded in the trial.
- Judges relied in part on suspects' social-media posts showing gang‑linked symbols and threats to rivals to link the attackers to the group and to support the court's finding that such gangs operate with hierarchy, fixed roles and a goal of territorial control; the ruling may increase scrutiny of youth‑gang activity and policing in the city.