“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 prevalence of pickpockets.” So ends the account by ‘Datacenter Dude’ of his visit to Barcelona for a conference aroundabout October 16th, 2012. While in...
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 by street thieves to a Barcelona-based group specialising in the sourcing and supply of international identity documents. The group was recently broken-up by Spanish police,...
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 few guys casing their next target and a few other things to ruffle the feathers. But not recently. In fact, it has been weeks if...
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 tweets issued by bicing, the company that runs the service. The three tweets sent on August 27th show that bicing has identified that thieves are...
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 months to the end of July 31st 2012. That’s seven per day. The article runs with a short video, which can be...
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 are happy to talk about what went wrong. They wish to cover a range of issues faced by British holiday makers – from filthy accommodation...
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 there are no more violent robberies in her area than in other areas of Barcelona and therefore, the area doesn’t deserve special attention. Casc Antic...
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