The Mossos solve the first crime of the ‘superilla’

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The Mossos d’Esquadra have solved what in justice could be known as the ‘Crime of the Superilla’, a case that, accordingly, will never be in Carles Porta’s pending tasks folder for his vein in the ‘Crims’ program, but that it has its what, not because of the value of what was stolen, barely 1,000 euros, the price of two benches and a table that were going to be installed on Rocafort street, but because of the symbolic. Almost finished the works of the new green axes of the Eixample, there are not a few Barcelonans who, as if afflicted with a kind of fatalistic urban calvinism, predict the worst, that incivility will degrade the graceful streets of the ‘superilla’ until turning them into a sindios. In this spirit, the robbery of that table and two benches was announced on March 23 by a tweeter who calls himself Tintin. The search and capture of the thief by the Mossos has been manual. In his defense, the detainee says that everything was the result of a fever. The details (don’t miss them) invite you to doubt his version.

To put order, it is best to go back to March 23. Tintin (not Hergé’s, who never gave news, but Twitter’s), announces the robbery as a preview of what, in his opinion, awaits the Eixample in the coming months. He does not hide his political affiliations in other tweets (Ada Colau and Esquerra receive tow equally), but without a doubt we must thank him for the alert he launched that day.The benches, chairs and, most exceptionally, also tables, are one of the hallmarks of the pacified streets. Barcelona practically came to renounce these elements of street furniture in the final stage of ‘closismo’, lest people sit down and stop behaving as what seems to be intended, ‘conso-flâneurs’, a word of denunciation coined by the economist Rodolphe Christin, translatable, very freely, by something like strolling consumers. During the works of the ‘superilla’ there are those who have taken home, for example, a panot de flor, one of the iconic tiles of the city, a minor sin next to the symbolic of the chairs and benches.

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A bit like detective Colombo, who spoke with an ellipsis in each sentence, the Mossos d’Esquadra have announced two months later the arrest of the culprit and the recovery of the stolen material. “We locate the thief by geolocation and we stop him & rdquor;. Wow!, one might say, has Colau put a chip in each chair in a sort of futuristic dystopia? No. The reality is different and, not for that reason, less juicy.

The thief, resident in a town near Barcelona, ​​rented a van from the Bold company, which offers them with and without a driver, and with it he went for the loot. He loaded the pieces through the back door and did not notice that the surveillance camera of a nearby store recorded the scene. It was the geolocation of the vehicle that led the agents to the perpetrator of the robbery, who, what things are, first called by phone to reconsider and take the stolen item to the police station himself. With no criminal record, they believed that this was the best course of action. That would save him a night in jail.but not the complaint. They were right, because that was how the furniture was recovered, which was even still packed, just as it was on the street. In his defense, the detainee explained to the policemen that there were so many inconveniences that he suffered every time he went by car to Barcelona for work, that he had decided to collect a garment. “A heat & rdquor ;, he said. A heater with vehicle rental included, but a heater. Come on, it was all Colau’s fault, as always.



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