Mexico: Federal Police Deployed to Mexico City’s Airport

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | February 12th, 2009 | Trackback

Authorities assigned 100 more federal police to Mexico City’s international airport following the 18th reported incident of robberies of arriving passengers who exchanged money in the airport. Five of the 18 victims have been foreigners, with a Colombian citizen the latest on Feb. 6. The usual method is for one member of a gang of thieves to observe a victim exchange a large sum of money, then call ahead to his cohorts to follow the target out of the airport and rob him at an opportune time. Last month a French scientist was killed when he resisted the attackers.

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