Muggers, Pickpockets Target Rome Tourists
From Reuters
ROME —
Tourists beware. Rome’s muggers, pickpockets and purse snatchers are more active than ever.
Rome’s Il Messaggero newspaper said Thursday that street crimes rose by 35% in the capital last year.
Quoting police figures and its own research, the paper said that in 1988 there were more than 56,000 reported incidents, or one every 10 minutes.
Areas near the train station and the Colosseum, a tourist haunt where there are many Gypsies and drug addicts, are among the most dangerous, Il Messaggero said.
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