Toulouse. Here’s the latest subway scam (and it’s expensive)
Through Laurent Derne
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It was 8 p.m. on Monday, November 29, 2021, at Matabiau, when the police from the departmental service for securing public transport (SDSTC) got their hands on it. Thanks to Tisséo cameras, they followed the peregrinations step by step more than limit of two subway passengers at theseducing juvenile.
They tracked the users
For several hours, the duo had been reported as taking a very close (too close) interest in the bag of certain metro users. Before their arrest, these 11 and 13 year old girls just stole a wallet.
The leather object concealed a Bank card whose kids knew the coded. Undoubtedly after having collected it by tracking their victim with the constancy and determination of a Saint-Hubert launched on the olfactory traces of a serial killer on the run, in a cut-throat wood draped in mist. In Fred Vargas mode.
Part of the missed booty
It was then that they came from withdraw 700 euros to the distributor – the holiday season is fast approaching – that the police have put an end to the merry-go-round. Last month, a duo of young girls performed the same type of scam to the Esquirol station, by trapping the contactless payment system of a Tisséo charging station. The victim had seen his bank account debited from 1000 euros.
The minors of Matabiau were placed in jail. “Only part of the booty was found, which suggests that an accomplice was accompanying them”, indicates a police source. The investigation continues …
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