Brazil: Tourists Targets of Armed Robberies at Sao Paulo Airport

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | December 27th, 2005 | Trackback

Crime targeting travelers has increased at and around Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport. In recent months a traveler was robbed at gunpoint inside the terminal in front of a check-in counter; another was assaulted in a bathroom; others were victims of carjackings on the roads near the airport. Part of the problem may be that a police unit that patrols the airport was reduced by 50 percent prior to the incidents.

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