The assault on the home of Kevin De Bruyne It has set off all the alarms. It is not an isolated incident. It is not a mere theft. It is one more in a large wave of assaults that Premier League players have been suffering for several years.
A series of assaults that other footballers such as Raheem Sterling, like Jesse Lingard, Victor Lindelof, Paul Pogba and the newcomer to FC Barcelona, Joao Cancelo. Victims of assaults by gangs arriving from Albania, as reported Mail Sportwhich target high-net-worth celebrities, including footballers, who they track online to find their home addresses and steal luxury items such as watches and jewelry.
Some events that have caused the players themselves and their clubs to work to take a series of measures to protect themselves, and that is that There are already several who are spending several hundred thousand euros on steel-reinforced panic rooms for their mansions. A measure that is not the only one.
The clubs have provided talks to the footballers so that they reduce to a minimum the chances of them being targets of attacks. They have been told to try Do not post images of your vacations or other events away from home on your social networks until you have returned to them.. They have also been told that do not visit jewelry storesbut rather that it is the companies that visit their homes, since there have been people waiting outside the stores themselves to identify possible victims.
Panic rooms, 24-hour security or geofences
With all this, footballers are taking different measures, spending hundreds of thousands of euros on panic rooms, surrounded by steel, with security lines and panic alarms that even work if the external cables are cut; with virtual perimeters that are also known as geopower, a kind of invisible walls on the boundaries of properties, and which is monitored by closed circuit television and motion sensors; with protection agents or bodyguardsy with protection dogstrained to defend their owners and protect their homes.
Some measures to also take in Spain
A series of measures that could also be applied in Spain, where numerous footballers have also suffered the assault of their homes by Albanian gangs, as happened to Dani Carvajal in August of last year, or also Karim Benzema, whose house was attacked in 2019, and while the player was playing in the Classic. Other faces have also been stolen, such as Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo, Falcao, Zidane, Morata, Isco, Jordi Alba, Ansu Fati, Piqu y Thomas Parteyamong others.
