When shooting our travel guide to La Boqueria in Barcelona, we actually caught a pickpocket in the act - on camera!

La Boqueria is one of the most busy and vibrant places in Barcelona, and open nearly every day of the year, so it's bound to attract all walks of life. Don't let this put you off the beautiful city though!

We have lots of videos singing Barcelona's praises here: https://goo.gl/vtDCyu

You should also check this video out to see how you can avoid the pesky pickpockets, whichever city you're in: http://youtu.be/P3uzY5E6aHs

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Transcript

So today I’m talking about pickpocketing in Barcelona. We actually witnessed it happening in a market place called La Boqueria. Check out this video clip and see if you notice it.

Okay, let’s slow it down a little bit. So here we’ve got a group of girls, and you can see they’ve just bought some smoothies, they’re having a lovely time, completely absorbed in what they’re doing.

One of the girls puts her purse back into her bag and then just slings her bag behind her. Now you see the guy to the left of the girl. He’s spotted her put her purse in her bag and thinks that she’s an easy target. He moves his coat over to his left-hand shoulder, which is closest to the girls, so no one would really know what was going on under his coat; he’s completely concealed his hand movements.

He’s looking at the bag, as he gets closer and closer to the girl, working out how he’s going to open it and how he’s going to help himself to the purse. As he gets to the girls, he stops. And at this point, we can’t even see what he’s doing. The girls clearly have no idea and this is probably when he’s got his hand in her bag, or at least trying to open it.

It looks like it doesn’t quite work and as he moves off, the bag comes with him where he’s tried to take something but the girl notices it and fortunately, nothing gets taken. The guy pretends nothing’s happened and moves off, pretending that his jacket just caught the bag and that’s all there was to it.

This girl was fortunate, but we caught this on camera purely by chance, so that goes to show just how rife it is.

However, I really don’t want you to think that, for this reason, you should be worried about travelling in Barcelona. There are some really easy steps that we’re outlining in another video, that you can follow, just to make sure you keep yourself safe and you have easy peace of mind.