Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Paris cashpoint thieves swarm around tourist and take his money

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609769/Caught-camera-Moment-brazen-
cashpoint-thieves-swarm-middle-aged-tourist-near-Notre-Dame-cathedral-Paris-
money.html


In 2011, France's then Interior Minister said that the vast majority of street robberies in Paris were being carried out by the children of Roma immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria. Claude Gueant said the notoriously poor and corrupt eastern European states were responsible for exporting some of the most notorious sneak thieves in the world. It has led to Romanian police arriving in Paris to support their French counterparts in clampdowns on the Roma. Officers dedicated to guarding tourists around attractions like the Louvre Museum from the immigrant gangs have increased. Intimidation, violence and theft increases in the summer months, as more tourists arrive for the groups of Roma to prey on. 'Everything possible is being done to make the city a safer one, but many of the Roma are young and have no papers, so dealing with them is almost impossible,' said a local police source.


By Epictetus

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