Having an iPhone seems to be more dangerous than it seems, especially if you live in a country where the image of Romania has been destroyed by those who steal and beg. This story is about some Romanians settled in France who ended up in prison just because they had iPhone terminals and were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The men in the picture were arrested on June 3, 2011 by the French police because an iPhone was stolen in the area where they were and the victim identified the thieves as being dressed similarly to the 2 men. Of course, one of them had an iPhone terminal and although he proved to the policeman that the device was his, both were still arrested for theft and presented to a judge.
On June 3, 2011, Constantin, Georgiana and Benjamin were in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Just XNUMX minutes before and just a few hundred meters away, a Frenchman had his iPhone stolen, on the terrace of a restaurant. The victim described two thieves, "two Romanians", one wearing a blue shirt and the other - a white one.
Constantin, who happens to be wearing a blue shirt, and Benjamin, dressed in a white one, walk quietly next to Georgiana. The three speak in Romanian, although they all know French perfectly.
A policeman hears them and searches them. All three have an iPhone. Although the Romanians show the police the personal photos from their phones, as well as the fact that they know the PIN code, so the devices belong to them, the lawman does not believe them. He arrests them and takes them to the section of the Paris North Station for questioning.
The whole story o you can read here and I say that it shows as well as possible the way Romanians are viewed abroad. We all know who is to blame for this image, I don't think we need to go into details, but the main idea is that you have to be very careful with the way you expose yourself when you are away in a foreign country. The original source of the article is here.
Thanks to Catalin N.
