Tomato sauce robber steals French pensioners credit cards
A cunning robber used tomato sauce to prey on elderly residents of the wealthy French town of Versailles. The 64-year-old man used the condiment as part of a trick to rob pensioners’ credit cards.
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After being arrested on Friday, the man confessed to spotting his victims in supermarkets, noting their Pin codes at the checkout and following them home.
There he would pour a jar of tomato sauce on their doorsteps and ask for help to clear it up, in reality a ruse to enable him to steal the victim’s credit card.
The scheme earned him a total of 17,000 euros, he told police, but it had not worked on younger people.
A second suspect, aged 25, was arrested with him but released for lack of proof.
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