3 tourists beat up a police officer in Barcelona after mistaking him for a thiefThe police officer was trying to prevent a theft and paid for it by getting assaultedThree tourists have been arrested in Barcelona after they brutally assaulted an officer of the Guardia Urbana who was in plain clothes when he was mistaken for a thief. It all began when the officer, dressed in civilian clothes, noticed that a watch was being stolen from one of the men and, when he tried to intervene to prevent the theft, the tourists brutally beat him up after mistaking him for the thief. The assailants took off but were soon located in a nearby hotel and arrested for the crime of assault and battery. Crime on the rise in BarcelonaThe incident has unleashed the building controversy in Barcelona about the rising wave of thefts, pickpocketing and muggings. Others, including the opposition in Barcelona City Council, have said it points to a lack of security for some time in Barcelona, and is asking for decisions to taken to ramp up police presence.

Source: Libya Today May 12, 2022 14:17 UTC