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Almost all shoplifters arrested in clampdown were.....Roma

  • 02-06-2008 2:55pm
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    darkman2
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    Roma arrested in shoplifter clampdown
    01 June 2008 By Kieron Wood
    Almost all of the shoplifters arrested in a recent Garda clampdown on theft in Dublin city centre were Roma, according to a senior Garda source.

    Of 124 shoplifters arrested in the north inner-city area during a one-week period, four were Irish and 120 were foreign nationals, almost all of whom were Roma. The Garda source said that groups of young Romanians were being brought over from Britain for short periods and were involved in pick-pocketing and ‘‘distraction theft’’ at ATMs.

    He said the problem was so serious that the Romanian authorities had sent a police officer to Ireland to liaise with gardai. Last week, 13 Romanians, aged from 16 to 30, were charged with theft, after a Garda operation to catch thieves who targeted people at ATMs.


    A spokesman for the Garda press office said: ‘‘Diversion theft has reduced since Operation Hawkeye 1,where a number of people were brought before the courts. These cases are currently pending and it would not be appropriate for us to comment.”

    The spokesman said he was not in a position to confirm whether a police officer attached to the Romanian embassy was working as a liaison officer with gardai.

    www.sbpost.ie


    Will they be deported? Should they be deported? Do you think this confirms the views of some that Roma = criminality........or do they get a hard time because its a minority of them? Is it a minority of them? More questions later....


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