MADRID — Spanish police have busted a legal group devoted to stealing your seat. Actually.
Spain’s Nationwide Police mentioned Wednesday that they’d arrested seven individuals suspected of stealing greater than 1,100 chairs from outside 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 evening 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 line with police.
The suspects, who face fees of theft and belonging to a legal 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 normally fabricated from steel or laborious plastic, outdoor throughout the evening. The chairs will usually be saved in stacks and chained down.
