MADRID — Spanish police have busted a prison group devoted to stealing your seat. Actually.
Spain’s Nationwide Police mentioned Wednesday that they’d arrested seven folks suspected of stealing greater than 1,100 chairs from out of doors seating areas at eating places and bars in Madrid and one other close by municipality in simply two months.
The group of six males and a girl labored at night time to pilfer the chairs from 18 completely different institutions in Madrid and Talavera de la Reina, a smaller metropolis to the southwest of the capital, in August and September. The estimated influence of the stolen property was round 60,000 euros ($69,000), in accordance with police.
The suspects, who face prices of theft and belonging to a prison group, resold the chairs in Spain but additionally in Morocco and Romania, police mentioned.
In Spain, many eating places and bars depart tables and chairs, that are often product of metallic or exhausting plastic, outside throughout the night time. The chairs will usually be stored in stacks and chained down.
