Eliana Guerrero
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8roTwCxI1vA A lone woman armed with a whistle and enormous courage has set herself the task of defending tourists and locals from the pickpockets who plague Barcelona. Eliana Guerrero became so angry by the way groups of thieves were able to freely walk around the city's underground network that she now patrols the metro on her own. She blows her whistle whenever she sees the thieves, who operate mostly in a dozen city centre stations including the Sagrada Familia and Placa Catalunya, and hands out flyers warning about the criminals. "They normally run off when they hear the whistle," Guerrero told the Guardian. "But sometimes they threaten me and last week, after I stopped them robbing someone, one of them grabbed me and injured my finger." Guerrero started her campaign after seeing a thief steal a bag from a German tourist, look inside and then throw it away – ...