Civic guard exposes Barcelona pickpockets as theft reportedly increases exponentially

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Barcelona is a hugely popular tourist spot - but some of these visitors end up having their wallet, phone or passport pickpocketed. Spanish citizens are taking efforts to expose the pickpockets and combat the issue.

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00:00Where there are tourists there are pickpockets. This is also the case in Barcelona where many

00:05visitors to the city end up leaving without a phone, wallet, passport or even all three.

00:11Some Spanish citizens say the police are doing too little to combat the issue

00:15so they decided to take matters into their own hands.

00:30Guerrero says that in recent years the pickpocketing situation in Barcelona has become

00:51even worse, saying that both theft and violent robberies have increased exponentially.

01:00I'm going to put on this handkerchief.

01:06What we want to achieve with this movement is the change of laws so that pickpocketers

01:12can't steal a wallet or a phone for free because now they can't think of anything.

01:16They can leave you without your passport, without your money, without your phone and nothing happens.

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