Maybe these bandits saw how the policia work on the AP7, after our last visit to Aldover we were driving back to the UK Via France and were north of Barcelona when an unmarked car with 4 men in it drove up along side of our van, one of the men in the front passenger seat put an ID type card up to the window with the word POLICIA on it and pointed to the slip road, he went off in front and we followed.
We came to the car and stopped behind it, the front seat passenger got out of the car and came to me on the drivers side of our van, a back set passenger got out of the car and stood menacingly infront of the van with his gun , although not drawn, in full view.
We were asked for our passports, where we had been, where we were going and why, what money we had, we showed them what little cash we were carrying he said no 'more monies', we told him we had no more, 'I look in the bag' he said refering to the handbag and rifled through it, meanwhile the man with the pistol had opened the side door of the van and was looking in the back (which was empty), we were then asked if we had any drugs, he looked through my wallet again and emptied it on the seat. Having satisfied himself that we had nothing he just said 'Gracias, be careful' and they both got back in the car and it sped away and they were gone.
All of this happened in the space of a few minutes and it took us 10 minutes to put everything back together and to decide that we hadn't been robbed but we did talk about it afterwards and said how easy it would have been for it to have been a robbery because we handed over our wallet and purse, with cash and credit cards in, passports and everthing. We believe that they were the Policia, we wern't robbed but how easily we could have been.
Next time we wont offer everything up so easily