“They are very fast little girls.”

Journalist and presenter Fatima BernardsThe woman, who is in Paris after the Olympics, has used social media to raise awareness about thefts that mainly occur on public transport in the French capital.

The presenter posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) after witnessing an attempted robbery in the Paris metro. “I just left the metro station and it is worth reinforcing the alert I already saw when I left Brazil. If you are coming here or have been here, be careful with the 'trombadinhas', the 'pick pockets'.”

“It’s impressive,” he said. “They’re young, they’re girls, they’re small, they always wear a scarf, and they’re so fast.” “They’re waiting to get out of the carriage at the last minute, at the door.” [do metro] It's about to close, and they're already going to take your wallet.”

According to the broadcaster, there is no way to pursue the thieves to try to recover the items specifically because they leave the cart the moment the doors close.

“We have just seen a situation like this, but this time they were not so lucky because the door closed on them and the passenger's wallet fell into the car,” he said.

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After this frustrating act, there was a lot of movement inside the carriage. Fatima also explained that the passenger's wallet was safe, yet it was about to be stolen.

The girl had her cell phone in her pocket, but her wallet was inside a fanny pack. [no corpo]in the background [da pochete] “And they managed to get their license,” he said. “It's impressive, you really have to be very careful.”