April 25 2015, 07:28

In Paris, as in the wild 90s, street swindlers operate in broad daylight at every turn, fearing neither the police nor the crowd. On Montmartre, “thimble-riggers” have been encountered more than once, and on the steps of Sacré-Cœur, black men with colored strings for the wrist were “working” – this is outright robbery, they don’t even bother to come up with a proper service. Apparently, all this has been going on for years in the exact same place.

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