Mexico: Frenchman Shot in Robbery Near Mexico City Airport

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | January 29th, 2009 | Trackback

Robbers staking out Mexico City’s international airport shot a French citizen in the head and robbed him of more than $6,000 in cash on a street near the airport Jan. 27. Apparently the gang posts lookouts near currency exchange windows who observe arriving passengers exchanging money and phone ahead to their cohorts identifying the potential victim. The thieves then follow the victim until he is off airport property (which is the jurisdiction of federal police), then overtake and block his vehicle for the robbery. Resistance is met with immediate violence. Police reported that three other similar robberies have occurred in recent months.

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