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 question, which can be seen here, is entitled “Olympics: Pickpockets show off ‘one-second theft’” The accompanying video, shows the Ronaldinho technique in action, something we’ve...
This is the second post in our mini-series of sites set-up to counter pickpocketing in our cities. Yesterday we covered “Robbery Maps“. Today, let’s look at “PickPocketMap“. The website compares other pickpocket hotspots, such as London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and Prague and compares and contrasts them by showing the increase or decrease in reported incidents in...
Robbed in Barcelona took our fight to the internet. We could have learned karate and gone vigilante, but we prefer a good quality psychological battle. Another web initiative that took the battle online...
The ever-brilliant Callejeros on Spanish TV channel Cuatro ran an episode called “Al Ladron” (“The Thief”) in their seventh season. As you can guess it was centered on Barcelona, and more specifically on the beach area of Barceloneta. They also cover the story of the now famous Iliana who goes after pickpockets with whistles and hands...
Catalan daily publication Ara had a story yesterday (May 13, 2012) about a trio of Romanians posing as police and robbing tourists in Barcelona. They were dressed in blue jackets, caps and had walkie-talkies, which they used to speak with a pretend control room. Of the three, only two dressed as police. The third...
May 1st a mobile phone and a cut knee. May 4th a mobile phone snatched in Parc de la Ciutadella. May 5th a bag and camera whipped in Placa Catalunya. Our Facebook group – I know someone who got robbed in Barcelona – continues to act as a repository and gathering point for the...
This is the sixth in a series of six posts – published each Monday for six weeks – showing the human face of pickpocketing, bagsnatching and robbery in Barcelona, through photos found on Flickr. Post one was here. Post two was here. Post three was here. Post four was here. Post five was here....
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