Pickpocketing at the Auber station.
Three very young Bosnians, aged 10, 12 and 13, were arrested on Wednesday afternoon on the RER A line after stealing the wallet of a 62-year-old Court of Auditors adviser.
It is around 2 p.m. in this train which is heading towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines).
The counselor is discreetly approached by this trio of thieves, made up of two young girls and a boy placed in a child welfare home.
The pickpockets make the pockets of the enarque and seize his wallet which contains his identity papers and his bank card.
The police arrest them in flagrante delicto
Arrived at the Auber station, the police officers of the regional transport service (SRT) who have not lost a crumb of the scene arrest the trio of thieves in flagrante delicto and return their property to the councillor.
The two girls, despite their young age, maintain that they are pregnant and declare that they are having unbearable contractions.
The firefighters are called and take them to the hospital.
This Thursday the trio was still in custody in the premises of the security.
But given their age, justice can only order educational measures
With the health crisis, pickpockets from Eastern Europe had deserted the capital, for lack of prey because they mainly attack tourists.
For about a year, they have returned to survey the metro trains of the capital.
Human trafficking networks, of Bosnian origin, are known to be organized in a patriarchal way, and children are held in an iron fist by adults who force them to steal.
The most famous of the clans, the Hamidovics, made headlines for being involved in a case of pickpocketing in the Paris metro in 2014.
Pickpockets follow tourists
The Auber station is famous for the presence of its thieves.
"It's logical, pickpockets follow tourists who go to see the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe", specifies a policeman.
Out of 120,000 offenses committed each year in Ile-de-France public transport, the police count 90,000 thefts committed by pickpockets.