One sufferer launched a video saying “Mad Max, is what we’ve come to. They made an ideal gap with a drill, man” describing how gas thieves are actually emptying tanks utilizing little greater than a battery powered drill a tube and a plastic container
Varied crimes have been reported throughout Spain as motorists with a legal bent search to keep away from having to pay the exorbitant gas prices which, even regardless of a 20 cents subsidy per litre from the central authorities, have left hauliers and different industrial transport operators throughout the nation, and all through the EU, deeply involved about their means to proceed to do enterprise.
There have been experiences of thieves utilizing false quantity plates to go away forecourts with out paying, in addition to falsifying different documentation, and within the city of Linares (in Jaén on the mainland) two males have been caught purple handed, after a chase in a automobile that had been stolen, and by which they have been carrying 13 liters of gasoline that they allegedly had faraway from the autos of unsuspecting motorists throughout the evening.
Members of the general public are suggested to be vigilant and report any suspicious actions round parked autos to the police. The emergency quantity is 112.