The Mossos d’Esquadra have released a video through social networks in which you can see how thieves act in the lobbies of the Barcelona metro. The recording shows how two criminals choose the victim and one spits on him without her noticing. She then offers him help to clean the stain and distract her. While this is happening, the other individual steals his belongings.
Another video shows how a robbery is committed with the same method, but in this case on the subway platform. One thief distracts the victim again and the other steals her bag.
Keep an eye on the distractions of any volume that the fan disconnects from public transport, the road or the following. Tingues les teves controlled things at all times #StopFurts pic.twitter.com/PkWe4pkTCL
— Mossos (@mossos) June 18, 2023
The Catalan police ask travelers to be alert and not to be distracted either on the underground or in the street by unknown people. The notice from the Mossos comes in the middle of the high season of tourism In high season.
Subway stations with the highest crime
According to the latest edition of the ‘Victimization survey of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area’that he Institute for Regional and Metropolitan Studies of Barcelona (IERMB) made from 8,308 interviews, crime in the subway accumulates in the stations located in the center of the city, either in those that act as exchangers or in those that are located in ‘hubs’ of economic activity such as, for example, the stop of the plaza espanya& rdquor ;, mentions the IERMB document.
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