Phone stolen in Spain and found in Morocco: a Spanish woman praises the efficiency of the Moroccan police

It’s an incredible story that Cristina Diaz experienced. Here’s how from Madrid to Morocco, the young Spanish woman tracked her stolen phone and found it with the help of the Moroccan police.

In a video recently shared on TikTok and viewed more than a million times, Cristina Diaz recounts the journey that took her from Spain to Morocco, on the trail of her phone stolen in Madrid, in a nightclub. After realizing that her cell phone had been stolen, the young woman first went to the police station. Equipped with an Apple Watch, she is able to locate the device, whose signal emitted from an apartment in the Spanish capital. But the police were unable to issue the search warrant which would have allowed them to enter the identified location.

Three weeks later, Cristina Diaz tried again to locate her phone, which this time was limited to Morocco. Against all odds, the young woman decides to go there to find him. “I didn’t care about my phone, but I didn’t have a backup and I had a lot of things to recover,” says Cristina Diaz, who made the trip accompanied by a friend who speaks the country’s language. Direction Sahel, not far from Larache, where the young woman’s iPhone 15 Pro Max was activated for the last time. Determined to get it back, she decides to go to the address indicated but makes a mistake, as she explains in her video. Spotted as soon as she arrived in the neighborhood, the phone was turned off in the meantime. She then goes to the nearest police station, armed with her complaint made in Spain, her phone box and the IMEI number. “The police have been incredible. In less than an hour, they had a search warrant for the location and an authorization from Interpol – since the complaint was Spanish,” explains the young woman on TikTok. And to specify on this subject, that “the search warrant was signed by a judge. Interpol, in collaboration with the Spanish embassy, ​​simply confirmed my passport and the complaint filed in Spain. » Because if the man who was in the apartment initially denied it, he ended up admitting to having buried it in a nearby field. “Less than three hours after my arrival at the police station, they had my phone,” enthuses Cristina Diaz, once again praising the efficiency of the Moroccan police. “Morocco is a country where crime is lower than in Spain. There, you steal a cell phone and it’s hell, which is not the case in Spain, where the police do not have a public security system,” she then adds, further emphasizing that “the Moroccan police, fortunately, have stricter laws, which gives them more power to act, in addition to the fact that tourists are sacred there.”