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The Barcelona Urban Guard agent had intervened to prevent a robbery in the Barceloneta neighborhood
two tourists attacked yesterday Tuesday afternoon in the neighborhood of the Barceloneta yet plainclothes police who was mistaken for a thief. In a video captured by a neighbor, it can be seen how the agent, a member of theto Barcelona City Guard, tries to warn that he is a policeman despite the street clothes he wears, but the two foreigners do not understand him and try to violently reduce him. they hit him kicking himone knocks him out, and then they continue hitting him in the chest and back.
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According to municipal sources, the events took place in the sea square. The plainclothes officer intervened to prevent a violent robbery by so-called ‘watchmakers’, criminals who routinely rip high-end watches off the wrists of tourists. But two tourists mistook the policeman for the thief, and violently tried to restrain him. Three people appear in the video, the two tourists and the ‘watchmaker’, who also attacks the policeman.
The two tourists have already been arrested at the hotel where they were staying for a crime of attack against an agent of the authority and another of injuries. The policeman was treated at a hospital and has recovered from the beating, despite the shock caused by the kick to the head.