the bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrovin Barcelona to participate in the Open Barcelona Banc de Sabadell that begins this Monday, suffered the theft of a luxury watch on Friday when he returned from training, as ElCaso.com has advanced and EL PERIÓDICO has been able to confirm.
The 31-year-old player was in his car, on Avenida Sarrià, when a motorcycle approached him and closed his car’s rear-view mirror. The intention of the thieves was for the tennis player to put his hand out of the window to reposition the mirror. This is what he did, oblivious to the discreet persecution to which he had been subjected, and that is when they snatched the watch from his wrist. A Bianchet brand watch, valued at around 70,000 euros.
The tennis player did not stop and after a while, around 9:30 p.m., he went to a Mossos d’Esquadra police station and filed a complaint. The thieves, who escaped, have not yet been located, nor has the watch been recovered.
Agreement with Rolex
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Investigators suspect that the thieves are Neapolitan professionals, who have traveled to Barcelona to commit this type of crime and flee. Robert Lewandowski was recently the object of an attempt to steal his watch as he left the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper and numerous tourists have suffered similar assaults in recent times.
Dimitrov, who must debut in the Barcelona tournament on Tuesday, is number 25 on the ATP list and a few years ago he signed a commercial agreement with the Rolex brand, although it was not that brand that was stolen from him in Barcelona.