Barcelona, 16 apr. Thieves on a motorcycle have robbed the Bulgarian tennis player Grigor Dimitrov of a wristwatch valued at 70,000 euros when he was driving a car along an avenue in Barcelona (Spain), where he is to participate in a tennis tournament.
According to the newspaper El Caso and sources close to the athlete confirmed this Sunday to EFE, the robbery occurred last Friday around 9:30 p.m. local time (7:30 p.m. GMT) at Diagonal, one of the main avenues in the city, when two motorists boarded the car in which he was traveling.
The occupants of the motorcycle closed the rear-view mirror of Dimitrov’s car to force the athlete to put his hand out the window to straighten it, a moment that they took advantage of to tear off his wristwatch.
The athlete filed a complaint with the Police, in which he stated that the stolen watch is valued at about 70,000 euros, which opened an investigation for a crime of robbery with violence to arrest the perpetrators of the robbery.
According to El Caso, the tennis player was returning from training ahead of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Trofeo Conde de Godó tennis competition that begins next Tuesday. EFE
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