THIS is the horrific moment a one-year-old baby girl is slapped by a man on the streets of Barcelona. Shocking footage shows the man screaming in the tourist’s faces, including the little girl as she waddles in front of her pushchair. The one-year-old is innocently walking in front of her pushchair when a stranger approaches the familyX @Aliciaterrassa The man winds his hand back to pretend to slap the babyX @Aliciaterrassa Soon chaos breaks out as the thug slaps the little girlX @Aliciaterrassa The baby’s family quickly take her away from the perpetrator and walk the other directionX @Aliciaterrassa The video shows the stranger wind his arm back before pretending to hit the toddler, stopping a mere few inches from her face. The one-year-old’s dad protects her, using his arm as a shield between the thug and the child. But it isn’t enough as the man takes another swing at the girl, making contact with her left cheek. Her dad swoops up the crying baby out of panic before he and the baby’s mum hastily walk the other way. The 31-year-old perpetrator allegedly assaulted two other people over the weekend before he was arrested by cops on Sunday, local media claims. Another of his alleged victims is a 60-year-old man who suffered horrific cuts to his face and bruised all over his body. The heinous attacker was able to be identified through video footage and eyewitness descriptions. He is to appear in court on Tuesday. The incident reportedly happened on a walkway on Montjuic hill, Barcelona, where popular tourist attraction like the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia are. According to police, the little girl suffered minor injuries and didn’t require hospital treatment. It comes as anti-tourist fury swept Spain this summer. In July around 2,800 protesters took to Barcelona‘s streets and drenched holidaymakers using water guns in an anti-tourism demonstration. Locals marched along a waterfront district of the city with their furious slogan “Enough! Let’s put limits on tourism”. Protesters were proudly holding signs reading “Barcelona is not for sale” and “Tourists go home” as they walked the popular tourist spots of the city. A motive for the moment is Barcelona’s current housing crisis that has reportedly seen home costs rise by 68per cent in the last decade. Rents also rose by 18per cent in June from a year earlier in tourist cities like Barcelona and Madrid, according to Idealista. Some locals blame the rising prices on tourists, sparking outrage and therefore encouraging protests. Barcelona’s mayor, Juame Collboni, announced a plan in June to phase out short-term lets by 2028. It’s been seen as a rather extreme and unexpected move by authorities. But many still feel that locals are not prioritised in the city, with not enough being done to balance tourism with residents. Anti-tourist measures sweeping hotspots A WAVE of anti-tourist measures are being implemented across Europe to curb mass tourism in popular holiday hotspots. Overcrowding has become the main problem in many sunny destinations, with authorities trying to find a solution to keep tourists and locals happy. Officials have attempted to reduce the impact of holidaymakers by implementing additional taxes on tourists, or banning new hotels. Earlier this year Venice became the first city in the world to charge an entry fee for holidaymakers after it started charging day-trippers €5 (£4.30) if visiting the historical Italian centre. It was followed by an area in Barcelona which resorted to removing a well-used bus route from Apple and Google Maps to stop crowds of tourists from using the bus.  Meanwhile, San Sebastián in the north of Spain, limited the maximum number of people on guided visits to 25 to avoid congestion, noise, nuisance and overcrowding. The city has already banned the construction of new hotels. The Spanish government has allowed restaurants to charge customers more for sitting in the shade in Andalucia. Benidorm has introduced time restrictions, as swimming in the sea between midnight and 7am could cost a whopping £1,000. The Canary Islands are also considering adopting measures to regulate the number of visitors – and charge tourists a daily tax. Greece has already enforced a tourist tax during the high season (from March to October) with visitors expected to pay from €1 (£0.86) to €4 (£3.45) per night, depending on the booked accommodation. Officials in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia want to introduce a fee for travellers to remind people to be courteous during their trips.

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