You own a car. You park it near you home. You know it’s vulnerable. It’s been broken into before. You leave nothing on the back seats, you remove the stereo, there’s no money visible, but still it gets broken into, the window smashed. What do you do? Do you try some simple psychology, maybe?...
Rosie got out of the car in shock. A woman from a nearby shop came over and said: “Ostras! Otra vez? La tercera hoy en este semaforo.” (“Wow! Again? The third today at this traffic light.”) In eighteen months Rosie has had her bag snatched out of her car three times – and that’s...
A new foreign resident of Barcelona got a shock last week when her belongings were stolen from her in front of Mercat de Santa Caterina. “Someone knocked on the car window and told me something was under the car,” she explains. “Without much thought about it, I stepped out to check. The moment I...
A local businessperson from Barceloneta (the beach side district in Barcelona) who deals with tourists on a daily basis has been in contact with Robbed in Barcelona via our Facebook group. She wishes to remain anonymous, but felt she had to speak out to tell others about the smash-and-grab incidents she encounters and witnesses...
This is a remarkable video. Provided by the lovely people at The Telegraph newspaper in the UK, their accompanying article explains that the Catalan police have “arrested 11 people responsible for an estimated 90 robberies all using the same modus operandi.” It continues, saying: “First the criminals pick out a car with foreign plates...
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