The Plaza de Catalunya station in Barcelona has been evicted and paralyzed again this Tuesday afternoon after a new suspicious alert. If on Monday it was a call to 112 that alerted of a bomb on the Renfe platforms, this time it was a station security guard who alerted the Mossos d'Esquadra after observing a suspicious package inside a bin.
The alert call was made around six in the afternoon, with that subway and its internal conduits that link Renfe, with the subway and the Generalitat Railways to bursting with people. The guard assured that he had seen some cables, an artifact that he was not able to describe but that vibrated and claimed to hear a suspicious "tick-tock".
As a precaution and prevention, the order was to evacuate the subway, along with the Urban Police and private security personnel. And isolate the area until the arrival of the dogs of the canine unit and the Tedax of the Mossos, specialized in the deactivation of explosives.
The first to work was the dog specializing in explosives, which did not detect the presence of suspicious material as it approached the wastebasket. Still, the Tedax got hold of one of their robots which approached and worked until it confirmed that it was not an explosive device.
In fact, the gadget that some thief had probably left in the trash was an anti-theft device for electric scooters. A device that is connected with several cables to the scooter's battery and that carries a kind of locator to locate the vehicle in case it is stolen.
