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Police mentioned that they had recovered Robert Lewandowski‘s watch, stolen because the star striker signed autographs earlier than a Barcelona coaching session. The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon when the 33-year-old striker, who joined from German membership Bayern Munich in July, arrived at coaching and stopped in entrance of followers for autographs, Catalan police informed AFP Friday.
A younger man approached and snatched the watch from the participant’s wrist.
Spanish media reported the watch was a Patek Phillippe value 70,000 euros (USD 70,300) and that Lewandowski climbed again in his automotive and gave chase however misplaced the thief.
The police have been alerted at 4:30 pm native time (1430 GMT) and inside an hour that they had caught the 19-year-old, who was hiding within the bushes across the stadium. They recovered the watch which was close by.
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He was arrested for “theft with violence”, the police mentioned. They defined that though Lewandowski was not damage, taking the watch off his physique was thought of violent.
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