A BRITISH couple have issued a warning to vacationers in Tenerife after turning into targets of a ‘rising crime’.
Andrea Seldon instructed a web based discussion board she was ‘actually shook up’ after virtually having every little thing stolen out of her bag throughout a night-time stroll.
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She wrote: “I’m completely gutted to be posting this. I’ve learn heaps on right here currently about choose pockets. Tonight we had been strolling alongside and I felt somebody behind me.
“I believed he was making an attempt to seize my bag or attempt to promote me one thing at first. I circled and grabbed my bag. He backed off saying sorry. We carried on strolling and I realised my bag was open.
“Fortunately every little thing was nonetheless inside. Actually shook up and upset however please girls, ensure your bag is throughout your physique and in entrance of you. Tenerife is a really particular place to us. There have been three of them. Two males and a girl.”
One other Brit responding to the put up stated she and a buddy had additionally been focused.
She claimed: “I caught somebody with their hand in my bag on the coastal paths simply earlier than you get to Porto Colom… he didn’t get an opportunity to get something. It’s unnerving.
“I all the time have my bag throughout my physique now with my hand on it. On the identical day at night time exterior the Conquistador they tried to do the identical to my buddy, she seen, turned and whacked him throughout the pinnacle along with her purse and he ran off.
“It’s bloody rife the poor youngsters who get drunk don’t stand an opportunity!”
