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Paris- be careful

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escalating street crime
12 years ago, November 27th 2011 No: 1 Msg: #147888  
B Posts: 8
Had a wonderful weekend in Paris, but it was spoiled.
Every single day, we had to confront pickpockets.
On arrival, upon boarding the train, at Anthony station, I saw my mobile phone flying in the air! Someone tried to steal it from my pocket, and another person, behind me saw everything and chased the offender away.
I was approached by a teenager, showing me a ring- a Paris classic. I just shouted at him, go away, and he got frustrated!!
This happened about four times in four days!
Boarding a train, two men, one from the front and another one from the back of my wife started talking to her, trying to grab her bag. She shouted my name and they disappeared!
Going out of Notre Dame, we stopped at a zebra crossing. A woman in a parked car started to ask me silly questions in broken English. A man behind me, advised me to ignore her as she is trying to make you approach her car, so she can grab and drive !!
This all happened last weekend, between the 17th and 20th November. The police are nowhere to be seen! The only police I ‘ve seen were near Arc de Triomphe.
My advice:
If you are reading a map, carrying luggages, holding a camera, dressed up elegantly, and heard speaking anything but French, you are an easy prey!!
Carry your belonging in a zipped pocket in front of your chest or a zipped, closed bag, hanging at the side, with your hands covering it at all times.
I have travelled to many places, but this amount of crime in just four days, is just too much!!!!

References :

advice from US embassy in Paris:

http://france.usembassy.gov/pickpockets.html

advice from Australian forgien office:

http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/France

Advice from Paris Police :

http://www.prefecturedepolice.interieur.gouv.fr/Pied-de-page/English/Publications/Paris-in-complete-safety Reply to this

12 years ago, November 28th 2011 No: 2 Msg: #147922  
Aren't 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' wonderful things! :/

Sad, isn't it. The same thing is happening in London. The collapse of any kind of effective immigration system within Europe has meant that many European countries have now become playgrounds for foreign, criminal gangs. In the UK, there is an epidemic of metal theft. It is being stolen wherever it can be found, including brass plaques from peoples graves and from war memorials.

Pickpocketing is rife in tourist areas, carried out mostly by children who are controlled by crime syndicates. This is the price we are all having to pay for liberalism and its imbecilic diktats. Reply to this

12 years ago, November 28th 2011 No: 3 Msg: #147942  
B Posts: 8

Good day.
I am not suggesting that street crime in Paris is the work of coloured people, immigants etc. Indeed, the ones I have encountered where probably French !In response to: Msg #147922 Reply to this

12 years ago, November 28th 2011 No: 4 Msg: #147950  
I'm not suggesting that they are solely responsible either. British criminals still commit the majority of crimes in the UK. However, if you look at British crime and prison figures you will see that many ethnic minorities are vastly over represented when you compare these numbers to the population figures. Crime carried out by foreign criminals also tends to be vastly higher in metropolitan areas too. UK Justice Dept Crime Figures

What I am saying, is that thanks to the lunacy of political correctness, there is no longer an efficient system of immigration to keep foreign criminals out, or any effective justice system to keep them under control or deport them when they do commit crimes (thanks mostly to Chapter 8 of the E.U 'Uman Rights Charter).

Where many would be severely punished in their own countries, the lax system of justice and the lack of any real deterrent for criminal behaviour in Western Europe means that crooks come flooding in to take advantage of this knowing full well that they can act with virtual impunity and without fear of being punished harshly for their crimes.

It is a well known fact that Romanian and Bulgarian pickpocketing gangs have been working London for years now and they are no doubt operating in other large European cities too. Most are simply sent home, after a slap on the wrist, where they can freely spend their ill gotten gains often running into hundreds of thousands of pounds!

Of course, I freely admit that most immigrants are law abiding and of great benefit to their host countries, that said, the truth is that as immigration increases, so too does crime. It is a sad fact of life that only those who live in cloud cuckoo land would dispute. I'm an immigrant myself. I have been on and off for the last 20 or so years. However, I always obey the laws of the country I live in, respect their traditions and culture and do my best to fit in. So, if I can behave myself, why can't they?
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