/ 5 December 2000

SMILE, YOU’RE ON CANDID CAMERA

EGYPTIAN police have arrested a gang of pickpockets who distracted their victims by pretending to produce the Egyptian version of the popular television show “Candid Camera.” The two truck drivers and an unemployed man made away with around $270000 in several months while robbing 28 people leaving banks in the capital, police said. They used a video camera and approached their victims with strange requests, triggering confusion and laughter that allowed them to take any money they had on them. – AFP