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 and user of the UK website “Out and About Live“:...
“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...
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 atmosphere and robberies, which I’ll come to soon, but because of the economic situation. It has been fun, though clearly this issue which really needs...
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