14 Jun, 2019 @ 17:22
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Brothers cuffed after trying to stuff 11 champagne bottles down one of their tops in huge shoplifting FAIL on Spain’s Costa del Sol

TWO brothers have been arrested after trying to nick 11 champagne bottles from a supermarket. 

The Romanian pair, aged 41 and 42, attempted to hide the bottles in a cycling suit worn by one of the men under a jacket.

The men thought they had gotten away with it after removing the security tags from each bottle before stuffing them down the cycling top while in a hypermarket in Fuengirola at around 2.30pm on June 12.

However they were being watched all along on video surveillance cameras by security guards.

One of the brothers was seen removing the alarm tags from the bottles – collectively worth €400 – by using a large magnet and a sharp object.

He then placed them in a trolley being pushed by his sibling, who was then seen stuffing them down his top.

Policia Nacional arrested the pair on site after being alerted by the guards.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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