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Subject: [OM] Re: Personal Robbery Survey, was Re: Bags
From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:38:08 +0100
Le vendredi 23 Février 2007 06:51, Andrew Fildes a écrit :
> Once in France I wandered off from a restaurant in a red wine induced
> haze (it was in St Emillion) and left my wallet on the table. The
> waiters hunted me down on the other side of the square of a tourist
> mecca.

France is like any other place : most of the people are decent and honest. A 
small minority are trouble makers. Paris-town is quite secure (massive police 
presence), suburbs are less friendly - still, really dangerous places are in 
pretty small number. You're safe most everywhere, save a handful of really 
dodgy spots (where there are no photo opportunities anyway). News of civil 
war in France have been vastly exagerated (last year's events made 0 - zero - 
casualties).

> Of course, I wasn't wearing sandals, shorts and an Hawaiian shirt at
> the time.

But we love tourists ; we tend to joke about them, but it's one of our biggest 
cash-maker. And we treat them well. As long as we're sure they want to go 
back to their homes after a couple of weeks.

-- 
Manuel Viet

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