Neighbors of a town in Cádiz beat two men after robbing a jewelry store

Luis F. Durán Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-17:16

A daring group of residents of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) has managed to catch two robbers when they were fleeing from a jewelry store that they had robbed with two backpacks full of jewelry, police sources have indicated.

The two robbers broke into the store, located on Barrameda Street,

dressed in blue work overalls, hiding their faces with motorcycle helmets, and armed with a short weapon

, a mace and a spray can.

When they left the establishment with two black backpacks with numerous jewelry and tried to flee on a moped, several passers-by who realized what was happening knocked down the motorcycle and began to beat the thieves.

The sequence of events was recorded by one of the neighbors and immediately went viral on WhatsApp groups.

In the recording you can see how a person knocks down the motorcycle and how the rest of the pedestrians join the action while several women shout: "Get them, get them."

Then, a man grabs one of the thieves from behind and throws him to the ground while his accomplice struggles with other neighbors.

At that moment, the thief runs and

kicks the neighbor who doesn't even flinch and manages to pin the criminal to the ground.

Instantly, three neighbors manage to knock down the other thief and detain them.

Agents of the National Police went to the scene around 10:35 a.m., when the robbery alarm sounded in the jewelry store, and arrested the robbers who were being held by neighbors.

A short weapon, a mace, vehicle keys, two motorcycle helmets, a spray bottle and two backpacks with numerous jewels that had just been stolen have been seized.

According to the Police,

they are "itinerant criminals" so their possible participation in other events

with similar characteristics will now be investigated.

The association of civil guards AUGC has congratulated on its social networks the neighbors

who "have not hesitated to prevent the robbery of a store in their neighborhood."

"If they rob him, tomorrow they will do it to you, but if we help stop him, he will no longer rob (at least for some time)," they say on their social networks.