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Thessaloniki: A young man set up cartels outside churches and robbed old women

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Within two years he had committed 29 robberies, outside churches as well as in public markets

He made them a profession robberies on elderly women a 26-year-old man in eastern Thessaloniki, who systematically lingered outside churches and public markets in the area of ​​Harilaou and Kato Toumpa and robbed unsuspecting victims.

Police officers of the Security Department of Harilaou – Assumption managed, after a methodical investigation, to carry out the identification of a person involved in a number of robberies against elderly women on foot.

This is a 26-year-old man from Albania, who was arrested pursuant to a relevant warrant of the 7th Regular Investigator of Thessaloniki, while a total of (29) cases of street robbery were investigated.

In particular, since June 2020, the 26-year-old, moving in the areas of Harilaou and Kato Toumba, would spot elderly women who were either going to or returning from churches and street markets and when they were on uncrowded streets, he would approach them at speed and push them away violently from behind causing the victims to fall to the ground and their personal belongings being taken from them.

The above removed from his victims the sum of money in total 2,100 euros, bank cards, gold and jewelry, mobile phones as well as their personal documents, while in the investigation carried out at his home in the area of ​​Faliro, a number of evidences were found and confiscated as well as items of clothing that the perpetrator wore during the robberies.

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