It has been a quiet four months of 2013 to date. So quiet in fact, we disappeared from the internet and decided to take a break. Then, last week, in tandem with the onset of the summer tourist season, the e-mails started to arrive. Robbery here, bag snatch there, stolen necklace here, bump and...
Thieves like to get rid of bags fast. A 20-something male walking or cycling with a nice lady’s handbag draws attention. In Barceloneta it seems the thieves have a handy drop-off point where bags can be deposited for assessment or later collection. (Barceloneta, the...
The AP7, the motorway than runs around Barcelona, taking traffic from France down towards the south eastern corner of Spain. It has developed a reputation over the years as being dangerous for foreign-registered vehicles. Let’s take a sorry tale posted by a mobilehome driver...
Enrique Figueredo penned an article in a recent La Vanguardia, which told a torrid tale… A street battle between youths of Dominican origin and the local police, in the...
A Dutch citizen has submitted to us her account of how her gold chain was stolen from around her neck in Barcelona in September. It shows the methodical approach...
“I couldn’t wait to leave Barcelona and get home. Shame on you, Barcelona, for allowing your beautiful city to get SO bad that the reputation that precedes you is...
The publication El Periódico ran a piece on Friday October 19th revealing that passports stolen from tourists in Barcelona are being used by Al Qaeda. Passports stolen here are sold...
I took a long walk around Barcelona on Sunday. Two hours, maybe more. Six months ago I would have seen a few robbery attempts, a few successful robberies, a...
Continuing a display of contempt for society, robbers have turned their attention to the public bicycle system in Barcelona. It is under attack as evidenced by a trio of...
It’s not just the tourists that suffer. El Periodico ran a story recently about the 1,565 motorcycles that have been stolen in the city of Barcelona in the seven...
By Stuart, longtime contributor to Robbed in Barcelona It has been eight years in Barcelona, almost to the day, but I’m off back to Scotland. Not because of the...
Our “Tell The Mayor” feature has proven popular, to the shame of everyone associated with this website. Some 41 submissions have come through the site between January 18th and...
Guest post by Robbed in Barcelona contributor, Matt I have been in Barcelona for the past week and my first experience of the thieves was when I was with...
A BAFTA award-winning production company, TwoFour, based in London is making a new TV holiday series, which includes a segment about people who have experienced a holiday nightmare and...
A group of foreign students have produced a video in Spanish, warning locals and tourists about the dangers of pickpocketing and bagsnatching in the city of Barcelona. It’s evident...
The vice president of the neighbourhood association of Casc Antic, Maria Mas, does not want so many police dedicated to stopping street crime in her neighbourhood. She claims that...
It gives us some pleasure to be mentioned in a book. It means we’ve reached a certain level in popular culture that says we get thought of, considered, rated....
Catalunya’s local government, via its train system “Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya” (FGC), has been innovating. They launched a new app on July 26th allowing passengers via their...
Gold chain thievery is in vogue in Barcelona. Over the past two weeks we have been sent a number of first person accounts about gold chains being plucked from...
As we look over Barcelona from our perch in RiBCN towers, we see a thousand people, a thousand buildings and a city in action. We think of the wonders...
Our Facebook group has been busy over the past 48 hours with updates from our fans/friends about a recent BBC report they had seen. The article and video in...
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