A 24-year-old Afghan admitted to having defrauded thirty women by registering on various dating sites, taking advantage of dating to steal their bank cards, the Bas-Rhin departmental public security directorate (DDSP) said on Tuesday. .
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In pre-trial detention in Strasbourg since August 2019 and also suspected of raping one of his victims, the man who had already admitted to having defrauded 27 women throughout France, admitted on Monday to having defrauded three others during '' a new interrogation conducted by the Financial and Administrative Investigations Unit (UEFEA) of the Departmental Security of Bas-Rhin.
He had already acknowledged in March " all of the facts " with which he was accused concerning the first 27 victims. " Registered on various dating sites (...) he seduced young women to whom he made an appointment ", explains, in a press release, the DDSP which qualifies him as " gigolo 2.0 ". " During the meeting, he took the opportunity to skillfully steal the bank card of his prey, or simply bank details, and subsequently used it to make online payments, " said the police.
Wanted in Canada, already sentenced in France
When he was invited to the young women's home, " he took advantage of the victim's inattention to take pictures of the apartment which he then posted on an apartment rental classifieds site ." He was then paid months of rent in advance. The suspect, also wanted in Canada, had already been imprisoned in Bordeaux for similar facts, but he escaped in July 2019 before being arrested again and placed in pre-trial detention in August in Strasbourg. He is to be tried on November 3 in Strasbourg.