After my phone was robbed when I slept, there has been two other cases to rob me. First one was happening when I walked in the area plaza Espanja and some guy jumps in that "do you speak English?", "Do you have a map?", "Where is my Hotel because I'm lost?", etc. As I do not have any ideas about the Hotels, I started to show him a map when another guy jumps in showing some kind of ID that he is the Police chasing drug traffickers.
I show my passport and then he asks to show wallets so this so kind of tourist shows his with 5 euros inside but as I don't have wallet I do not have nothing to show. Showed my coins around two euros worth and declared that If I would afford to live in the Hotel, I would not walk around with my sleeping bag and back bag always with me?
Then I also wanted to make him complaint about my robbery that I lost my money and mobile phone and started to insist that he must take my declaration. They somehow started to run away?
Another event issued when I was taking a sun by lying in my back bag in park Joan Miro (same area). So some guy comes to great that "where am from?, Isn't a Spain nice country, blablabla and hold my hand too long.
So, I turn around and another guy is trying to open my back bag! Why they believe that I will hold some valuable things in my back bag small pocket? Sure, if they want to steal small Estonian-Spanish dictionary, it would be big loss for me but what could they do with it? I do not have Spanish-Estonian one for them to learn Estonian.
And why all those robbers still believe that a persons walking with back bag and sleeping bag are rich tourists?
All those I have met here are just homeless persons over the Europe trying to survive here. The time of rich European tourists have been over for several years for them.
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:55:55