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 environs of Barcelona’s Pou de la Figuera and Mercat de Santa Caterina. Since the article above was written, a noticeable peace has descended in the district –...
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,...
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...
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...
I was robbed last night while walking home from a club at 3 in the morning. I only realised that I had been robbed the morning after when I woke up at home and could not find my phones or wallet and had an unusual cut on my forehead. I phoned my bank to...
We tell many Barcelona robbery stories on this site, but there’s one in particular that we are constantly asked about… it’s the case of the Polish contortionist on the bus between Girona Airport and Barcelona city centre. We first wrote about it back in June 2011. (You might want to read about it first,...
Catalan broadcaster TV3 produced a documentary (below) entitled “Farts de Furts” (loosely translated, “fed-up with robbery”), first broadcast in May 2010. The documentary includes some shots from our Facebook group “Robbed in Barcelona”, not to be confused with another Facebook group started by Carmen Oko, who is interviewed. The documentary’s emphasis is on police...
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