Barcelona Spain: Robberies reported up 15 percent on metro

Posted on July 11, 2017 • Filed under: Spain, Tourist Warning

Thieves are hunting for latest generation smartphones and luxury watches

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The Mossos d’Esquadra have detected a rebound of 15% of the violent robberies in the street, the known ‘tirones’, in the city of Barcelona this 2017. Apparently, the thieves now go mainly to the hunting of the’ smartphones ‘And luxury watches. The new chief commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Region of Barcelona, ​​Joan Portals explained that this increase has resulted in 149 more robberies in the first five months of 2017. That is, one more day.
CHANGE OF TREND

After an increase in 2012 of the tironeros who went for necklaces of gold and that finally stabilized, the Mossos have detected a new increase by these new objects of luxury in the zones of nocturnal leisure and of great tourist inflow. “It has changed the mode, so far the money was being chased by the victim, now derived in mobile phones and other high-end products like watches,” said the commissioner. Read Article

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