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Reportaje:
La terminal de los carteristas
En la Estación Sur de Autobuses se producen un centenar de robos al mes, el 30% de ellos superiores a los 400 euros
Leyendas de Méndez Álvaro
El País Madrid 23 ENE 2006
Feature:
The terminal of pickpockets
In the South Bus Station produced a hundred thefts per month, 30% of them above 400 euros
Alvaro Mendez Legends
The Country Madrid 23 ENE 2006
"Keep small objects in hand. If you do have questions, do not answer, I want to distract. If they throw coins or other object in front of you, do not pick it up. If you say you have a broken or a stain on your clothes, ignore. Criminals use these procedures to remove their belongings. " These instructions warn about a year to more than 50,000 travelers who pass daily through the South Bus Station. Since they were installed, the number of complaints of theft has dropped by 40%, according to the station manager, Luis Lopez Delgado.
Although there are 52 security cameras recorded throughout the terminal and at least three guards, the guards agree that most thefts are inevitable: "They tend to be careless. No guns, no violence. Not even you whole until you see a woman or a man crying and screaming they stole his wallet. The victim can be anyone, being watched, "said one of the guards.
Since warning signs placed on platforms thefts are down 40%
On Fridays and the start of the holiday 20 crimes occur daily
Occur a month, according to the police mobile brigade, one hundred complaints of theft. The numbers go up in the mouth of the security guards and even more so at Christmas: "If it's Friday or before holiday we get to see up to 20 thefts in a single day," says one of them. Lost In can finish in one day eight purses and two empty bags.
However, Delgado Lopez makes a very positive assessment of the Christmas season, but gives no details: "This year has been a special police operation and abductions have declined greatly. Documentation has been asked more than ever, and there have been more vigilant , which has paid off, "he explains.
John, 60, has just arrived at the station from a village near Toledo. He comes to visit her son who lives in Madrid. It is the first time in the bus station. Is confused and tries to find a sign that tells you where the exit is. Leave the bag on the floor and look for the signs at him. Just have a few seconds, but when stooping to pick up the bag is open. Stolen wallet. Distraught, ask for help in the information window. Desperate, she cries. "It's money that had a deadline to pay the mortgage on my son," he laments. We just robbed 900 euros.
It happened a month ago, although the station workers have seen this scene too many times. The case of John is in the statistics: 30% of complaints by subtraction exceed 400 euros. Most of them are elderly. The authors arrive daily in opening the doors of the Mendez Alvaro station, the largest in Europe. Pickpockets are confused with the 50,000 daily travelers who pass through its halls.
Security guards every day travel the 33,000 square meters of the well known terminal. Like the cops patrolling plainclothes station and is identified too easily.
Pickpockets are usually foreigners from Eastern and North African countries and some South American. They usually go in little groups, can be simultaneously up and spend ten days at the station acting.
"If travelers would not spend all day here, but sometimes carry bags to conceal or notes and teach us when we asked them what they do here. Then you can not throw them to the station. Usually spend a whole weekend or two and when we requetefichados, go to another station or to another city to continue his business there, "said a guard.
The public safety brigade is responsible for ensuring the comfort of travelers. Javier Cano Seijo, Chief Inspector of the Flying Squad, believes that the environment in which the station is located is a place prone to act "marginal offenders", but insists that it is a safe and very secure. "As steals the dismissal, users need to be vigilant, hence the need to put the posters," says Cano Seijo.
The head of the mobile police unit explains that the way in which stolen today has nothing to do with sophisticated systems of yesteryear pickpockets. "None of robber barons or fine work. Now is coarser. For example, the Bosnian arrive in groups, start setting up scandal, screaming, and just wrapping someone who can not escape. When you want to account, he have cleared the portfolio. "
Another theft occurs frequently in the trunks of buses. Leveraging travelers crowding the arrivals and departures of vehicles, criminals naturally approach the trunk and carried a bag either, as his own, in the chaos few realize. The owner, which is usually already installed on the bus, not realizing that often do not have your luggage until you reach your city. For this reason, some companies impose their drivers not to open the trunk until all passengers above, if exits, or until they are all down, where arrivals.
Mixed among pickpockets in South Station also work some scammers, though, says the head of the Flying Squad, Cano Seijo, is virtually eradicated. The starred scam the citizens of Eastern European countries. When arriving trips this part of Europe laden weary travelers, after three days of travel by road, scared and anxious to get to Spain, many were assaulted by fellow, who taught them fake police badges and asked them not to bring money to jail or to give false papers. "Innocent people believed it, gave them the money and obviously will never again see the hair," says Cano Seijo.
Also at the station café suspect guards are tricks of roles: "Lots of people bustle folders with documents. Always the same. Comes a pending immigrant. Then another with a folder appears. Calls by mobile , and a third person appears, presents and throw a great time watching ... interchanging roles. Finally, taking you to another site, there do not know what will. I have no idea if it's a crime or not, but that happens often. "
In some isolated banks of the terminal are sheltered from the cold, near the back door to escape, and some drunk addicts. "Duran bit here because then throw them vigilantes," said a clerk in one of the shops. They explain the watchers, customers are usually near a shooting gallery that took refuge from the cold until they throw. "They do not usually cause problems, or annoy people, but this is not a place to stay, is a place for travelers," said one of the guards. He adds that although they are quiet people sometimes get "war" when, in search of some forgotten currency, they are trapped fingers in the cages of the booths or vending machines.
Workers at the station guards match that many would avoid theft more travelers cooperation: "Some passengers are seeing it and look the other way because they fear reprisals.'ve Seen how they take the bag, or purse people, but no one knows, going about their business, prefer to avoid trouble, "said a security guard.
This was not the case of Alberto, a boy of 27 who could not help but intervene when he saw a woman robbed. "There was so much commotion in the station because it was Friday. Was waiting to get on the bus when I noticed a girl about 25 years old Romanian who looked bad and was hanging around the platform. He approached the trunk of a bus where several passengers collecting their luggage. With all his cool, he opened the bag to a lady in her 50s and left with his wallet, "said Alberto. "Then I stopped, and I said that was not his. I refused and tried to leave. I took her arm, pulled the wallet and ran." By this time the neglect had a happy ending.
Alvaro Mendez Legends
It was the second round and the second time that the security guard was passing through that point. When he saw a woman in her 60s lying on the wall, the guard thought he had won just sleep. But two hours passed and still there. Like the first time, his mouth half open and peace gesture in the face. When he came to wake her, it was freezing. "She had been dead three or four hours at least, and I almost had something," says the guard who found it. He has been working at the station six months. "You spend a lot of things, too," he says.
Note that other hot spots of the season are the men's bathrooms. All workers who are asked to agree are meeting places for hustlers, although lower their voices to talk about it. "Every day, anytime you are male couples in the bathroom. Often maintain relationships within individuales.Hay booths of all ages, from lords to under 70 years.
When you ask them to explain, they say they came together, they were helping and that is not a crime for two people to be together in the same bath. But at least you get them the colors, because it is a public scandal, and more in one season, "said a guard. A police commander downplays:" No more meetings than in other seasons. "
A driver relates that in the bathrooms of the docks you can find everything: "Just being monitored, so you can find one pricking, another with his pants down or an old man who has been robbed."
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