Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has become the latest Barcelona player to have been victims of theft or burglary of their homes.
Aubameyang was assaulted during a burglary in his home, as masked thieves infiltrated his home in the Catalan city while he was with his wife and two children, and the thieves forced them to open their safe.
And press reports revealed that the thieves stole jewelry from Aubameyang’s house, during the incident that occurred following the match in which the player sat on the bench, during Barcelona’s victory over its guest, Valladolid, by four clean points in the Spanish League.
Thus, Aubameyang joined the list of Barcelona players who were robbed or robbed of their homes, but the Gabonese striker had bad luck, following he was beaten and threatened with firearms, and it came to restricting him for an hour to force him to open the cupboard.
This was the second robbery incident for the 33-year-old this summer. Two months ago, a group of thieves broke into his house, and no one was at home that time, and they stole jewelry.
Aubameyang became the second player in Barcelona He falls victim to a criminal act within a few days, following his Polish colleague Robert Lewandowski stole his luxury watch, while on his way to the Catalan club’s training center, but the police managed to recover the watch and arrested the thieves.
A wave of theft of the homes of Barcelona players
And there was a wave of burglaries on the homes of football players, as thieves study their movements and take advantage of their presence outside the house to play a match or training, even sneaking into their homes to steal valuables such as money, jewelry or expensive watches.
Thus, the series of robberies of Barcelona players’ homes continues, as a house was previously shown Ansu Fati The young Barcelona star was robbed during his team’s match once morest Espanyol last year 2021, and the thieves entered the house from the top floor and took money, jewelry and watches.
Surprisingly, the player’s family was already at home during the robbery, but they were busy watching the Catalan derby on the ground floor, and family members noticed the noise upstairs, and called the police to avoid having to confront the thieves themselves.
And in 2019, the house of the Portuguese Nelson Semedo, the former Barcelona defender, was robbed while he was with his team at the hotel in preparation for the Clasico match once morest Real Madrid, and it was not revealed whether any member of his family was at home at that moment or if it was empty.
In the same year, the house of Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti, who was recently transferred on loan to Lecce, was robbed, while his club was playing once morest Valencia in the Spanish League at the Camp Nou, and 4 masked people infiltrated the house, while the nature of the thefts was not clear.
Jordi Alba, the left-back of the team, was also robbed of his house while he was in Italy to face Inter Milan in the Champions League in 2018. A group of thieves infiltrated his house from the garden, violently removed the curtain of a window, and then opened the cupboard and looted some drawers.
Benzema under burglary
Aside from Barcelona, robberies in Spain have also affected Real Madrid players in recent years, led by the French Karim Benzema The captain of the royal team, who returned to his home following playing the Elche match at the beginning of this year, to discover that he had been robbed and stolen.
It was not the first time that Benzema’s house was burgled, as he faced the same thing in 2019, and the French striker was also playing a match with his team during the Clasico once morest Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu.
