One of the items most valued by thieves in Barcelona are expensive watches.

They do not hesitate to assault the victim among several criminals to take it away and even use violence if there is resistance.

The robbers spend hours guarding hotels and expensive establishments in the city with the idea of ​​assaulting someone who carries one of these luxury items.

And yesterday, those who assaulted a tourist in Ciutat Vella obtained the most precious booty.

Specifically, the tourist reported the theft of a Hublot gold watch valued at 800,000 euros near the Barcelona City Hall, some busy streets with a police presence.

According to police sources, it would be the most expensive watch ever stolen in the city.

In his complaint, the victim highlights that he was violently attacked and provided documents that would prove that the watch was his.

The Mossos d'Esquadra agents have begun to look for the suspects from the viewing of the cameras near the place of the robbery.

The Mossos unit created a month ago in the Barcelona metropolitan police region specialized in combating theft of luxury watches is in charge of the investigation.

In recent years it has been proven that there is an increase in robberies to obtain these valuables and that the criminals who act are multi-repeat offenders.

For this reason, the unit is made up of plainclothes and uniformed agents who patrol the tourist areas of the city to stop these robberies as well as the network they have for subsequent sale on the illicit market.

Within this specific work against multiple recidivism, the Mossos arrested 31 people in one of the last weekends of May and identified another 53, totaling 684 records, accused of stealing high-gamma watches or trying to do so.

They were mostly in Ciutat Vella and at night, when the alleged thieves robbed several people and took watches valued at 5,000, 9,000 and 42,000 euros, before fleeing on an electric scooter.

In these cases the perpetrators could be arrested.

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