Footage released today showed the British tourists fighting with a criminal in Spain as an accomplice on a motorbike watched on from a distance
This the astonishing moment a courageous British holidaymaker and his wife grappled with a watch thief in Magaluf after being ambushed from behind.
The couple tussle with the thief in the street, appearing to take wild swings before eventually being overpowered.Both men scuffle on the floor for several seconds with the witness awkwardly standing to one side. A spokesman for the Civil Guard said as footage was released today: 'Detectives have arrested two Italian men aged 44 and 57 as the suspected authors of a violent robbery and crime of fraud following a mugging in Magaluf.
Confirming the British man had suffered only minor injuries despite the violent attack, the police force added in a statement: 'The watch stolen was a designer watch worth around 80,000 euros.
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