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Ibiza phone thief ‘world’s most stupid’

A German tourist who had her mobile stolen on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza has set up a hilarious blog with pictures and videos taken by the thief on her device which are automatically uploaded to her computer.

Published: 5 August 2013 15:06 CEST

Ibiza phone thief 'world's most stupid'

Photo: DPA

“Life of a stranger who stole my mobile” is a satirical account of the life and times of Hafid, a petty thief whose only link to the blog’s author is the mobile phone he took from her on a beach in Ibiza.

“He forgot to switch off the camera upload function, that’s why we will enjoy a deep insight into his life,” the German blogger jokes below the site’s name.

Her humorous account of events starts from the day of the robbery, when she was “hopelessly drunk and naked in the sea” with her friends while on holiday in Ibiza.

She tells how she almost came face to the face with Hafid seconds before he stole her friends’ and her belongings.

Four months after the unfortunate events, the blogger noticed fifteen new pictures had been uploaded from her stolen phone to her Dropbox account.

“Every photo he takes appears instantly on my computer,” she wrote. “What a douche.”

Hafid’s incessant stupidity seemed too good to go unnoticed, and soon the once-disgruntled tourist began telling the world about Hafid’s day-to-day on a Tumblr blog which has left followers baffled.

She was able to find out where the naïve thief was based after he unknowingly sent her a picture of him standing in front of Dubai’s emblematic Burj Khalifa tower.

Next in line was discovering his name.

“What really made me wonder about his stupidity was when I checked my Facebook profile and found out that he entered my Facebook account and sent me a personal message from his own account to hit on me. That’s how I know his name,” she wrote.

The intrepid Hafid also attempted to seduce the blogger’s Skype friends with irresistible words like “I’m Hafid, I want to meet you.”

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Germany arrests Syrian man accused of plotting to kill soldiers

The suspect, an “alleged follower of a radical Islamic ideology”, was arrested on Thursday on charges of planning “a serious act of violence endangering the state”.

The man had acquired two heavy knives “around 40 centimetres (more than one foot) in length” in recent days, prosecutors in Munich said.

He planned to “attack Bundeswehr soldiers” in the city of Hof in northern Bavaria during their lunch break, aiming “to kill as many of them as possible”, prosecutors said.

“The accused wanted to attract attention and create a feeling of insecurity among the population,” they said.

German security services have been on high alert over the threat of Islamist attacks, in particular since the Gaza war erupted on October 7th with the Hamas attacks on Israel.

Police shot dead a man in Munich this month after he opened fire on officers in what was being treated as a suspected “terrorist attack” on the Israeli consulate in Munich.

The shootout fell on the anniversary of the kidnap and killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games by Palestinian militants.

The 18-year-old suspect had previously been investigated by authorities in his home country Austria on suspicion of links to terrorism but the case had been dropped.

The incident capped a string of attacks in Germany, which have stirred a sense of insecurity in Germany and fed a bitter debate of immigration.

Three people were killed last month in a suspected Islamist stabbing at a festival in the western city of Solingen.

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The suspect in the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State group, was a Syrian man who had been slated for deportation from Germany.

A federal interior ministry spokesman said if an Islamist motive was confirmed in the latest foiled attack, it would be “further evidence of the high threat posed by Islamist terrorism in Germany, which was recently demonstrated by the serious crimes in Mannheim and the attack in Solingen, but also by acts that were fortunately prevented by the timely intervention of the security authorities”.

The Solingen stabbing followed a knife attack in the city of Mannheim in May, which left a policeman dead, and which had also been linked to Islamism by officials.

Germany has responded to the attacks by taking steps to tighten immigration controls and knife laws.

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The government has announced new checks along all of its borders and promised to speed up deportations of migrants who have no right to stay in Germany.

The number of people considered Islamist extremists in Germany fell slightly from 27,480 in 2022 to 27,200 last year, according to a report from the federal domestic intelligence agency.

But Interior Minister Nancy Faeser warned in August that “the threat posed by Islamist terrorism remains high”.

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