メキシコシティ 外国人旅行者を狙った現金強盗多発

メキシコシティ空港の両替所で外国人を狙った強盗が多発しているらしい。

以前、メキシコにいったとき、私とダーリンもメキシコシティ空港内の両替所でＵＳドルからペソに両替したので、他人事は思えない。

手口は、空港内にある両替所で、ギャングの見張り番が両替している外国人旅行者を密かにマークして、空港の外で待機している仲間に通報。

その仲間達が旅行者を尾行して、空港施設の外で、現金を強奪。抵抗する旅行者は容赦なく射殺、ですって。

Thieves shoot foreigner near Mexico airport Cops:

French victim was targeted after changing money at terminal

The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - Thieves apparently targeting people who exchange money at Mexico City's international airport shot a French citizen in the head on uesday, and authorities warned that gangs have put lookouts at exchange windows in the terminal.
The 55 year-old French biotechnology researcher, who works at a Mexican University, was attacked and robbed of $6,336 on a street near the airport, assistant city prosecutor Luis Vasquez and police said. He is in serious ondition at a local hospital.
Officials at the French embassy said they could not confirm the victim's name or home town.

Mexico City police chief Manuel Mondragon said criminal gangs have posted lookouts at some of the money exchange businesses inside the airport. The lookouts tip off associates waiting outside who rob the victims after they leave the terminal. The gangs often use extreme violence.
'Incredible violence'The lookouts "send a message by radio or telephone about who has changed money ... and then cars are sent out to intercept the person," Mondragon said. "When the victim resists, it unleashes the most incredible violence, like shooting this man in the head."

The Frenchman's driver testified that two cars appeared to follow them after they left the airport, then cut them off, police said. One man got out with a gun and shot the victim when he refused to hand over the bag containing the money.

There have been about three other reported cases of foreigners being held up under similar circumstances in recent months, police say.In one case, a tourist from Guinea was shot during a similar attack near the airport in January.
Vasquez said the two crimes may be related."We believe it could be members of the same gang, or another gang using the same methods," Vasquez said.

The airport itself is under the auspices of federal police, while the streets outside the terminal are patrolled by city cops.
Mexico has seen a wave of drug-related killings that claimed more than 5,300 lives in 2008, as well as violent kidnappings and common crime, but relatively few foreigners have been among the victims.

対策としては、とにかく現金はあまり持ち歩かないこと？とはいえ、クレジットカードが使えないところもあるし。

お金持ってません、貧乏旅行です、って雰囲気をかもし出すとか。（フリをしなくてもそうなんだけどさ）

でも旅行にいくときは、何があってもおかしくない、ってくらいの覚悟でいかないとね。

飛行機だって落ちるかもしれないし、盗難にもあうかもしれない。

テロなんかに巻き込まれて命を落とすこともあるかもしれない。

でも、それを恐れていては何処にもいけない！

慎重に行動してたって、避けられないことってある。

いつかまたメキシコに行く！