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,...
Gold chain thievery is in vogue in Barcelona. Over the past two weeks we have been sent a number of first person accounts about gold chains being plucked from necks, and bracelets from wrists. We hear about bag snatching, pickpocketing, robbery on the beach and robbery on the metro system, but face-to-face chain snatching hasn’t come...
On Friday, we published an exclusive story entitled “Tourist catches thief… tourist thrown in jail,” which was much commented upon. It was a lengthy piece by our guest contributor, Kristina, and in the midst of the article was a component we feel was overlooked. The article detailed an incident in which a tourist who...
Guestpost by Justyna Anna Pezik. My camera was stolen from me in Placa de Sant Agusti Vell in Barcelona at 17.00hrs on April 2nd, 2012. All above photos © by Justyna Pezik I was taking shots of street art in the area. I was absolutely amazed by the creativity of Barcelona’s street artists. Suddenly someone grabbed my...
Thanks to Robbed in Barcelona’s Nicki Easy for contacting local photographer sparmtacus and getting permission to reproduce his photos of the city. It paints a sorry picture. Click on each image for an enlarged version.
A “Robbed in Barcelona” contributor has sent us a photo he took on January 23rd, 2012 of three individuals he believes were stealing a number of bicycles. We’ve put a thin black strip across the eyes of the three, but if your bicycle was stolen that morning on the corner of Carrer del Comte d’Urgell and...
Barry visited Barcelona in October 2011 and had his black iPhone 4 stolen. Nothing unusual so far; we have at least 550 criminal incidents here every day. He went to a local police station and gave his details, but on returning the next day the police informed him that he hadn’t followed procedure–he hadn’t made...
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