The six, five men (Algerian, Moroccan, French and Swiss) and a Spanish woman, aged between 19 and 34, arrived in Palma from Barcelona in March this year. They stayed in different hotels in the city in order not to draw attention to themselves as a gang.
They are charged with four crimes which resulted in the theft of watches with a total value of over 170,000 euros.
The six had specific functions - monitoring and selecting targets and then carrying out the thefts. The first was on March 17. Four of the accused were involved with using violence in snatching a Hublot Big Bang Evolution valued at 11,265 euros from a German tourist. Almost a month later, on April 16, one of the six, who was on a scooter, grabbed the target from behind and stole a Jaeger-LeCoultre worth 12,200 euros.
The two later thefts were of watches with far higher values. On April 20, an Audemars Piguet, valued at 100,000 euros, was stolen from a French tourist. Eight days later, all six participated in stealing a Rolex worth 50,000 euros from a woman in the Paseo Mallorca car park.
The National Police arrested them at a hotel in Playa de Palma some hours after the fourth robbery and were able to recover the Rolex, which was returned to its owner.
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Seeing how criminals are treated here, they will probably be banned from looking at their own watches for a bit🙄
The thieves should be jailed obviously, but walking around wearing a watch worth thousands in this day and age is obscene.
They should be heavily fined and then deported with a note to that effect in their passports and banned permanently from entering Majorca ever again.
These criminals cause great anxiety to the island's residents and frighten off would-be visitors looking for a safe place for a holiday thereby directly damaging the island's economy. This crime of stealing property from persons on the street is violent, alarming and leaves the victims in great distress. None of us are safe until these undesirables are permanently off the streets and such proposed sentences for this gang will serve as a strong deterrent to others.
Lock the scum up and throw away the key. Utter filth.