Can you believe it? Two store detective who managed to catch a female shoplifter had trouble when others came to her aid to free her. In Malaysia, people may have beaten a snatch thief or a vandal thief to death. In Germany, they free her.
Read more about it in Reuters.
BERLIN, Dec 12 (Reuters Life!) - German shoppers sprang to the help of a shoplifter who was being detained after trying to steal clothes at a department store, wrongly assuming she was being attacked by strangers, police said on Tuesday.
Two store detectives caught a woman in her mid-30s stealing garments in the city of Mainz near Frankfurt and attempted to detain her for questioning, police said.
But the woman tried to free herself, and bit, kicked and hit the detectives who wrestled her down in a skirmish, prompting passers-by worried about her safety to help her.
“They hauled the detectives away from her … The woman managed to run away,” Mainz police said in a statement.
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I guess they really have to wear their uniform or show their badges first.
they are in-house detectives, not cop nor police
thats why they are called detectives, they are always in plain-clothes …
Sorry for the late response guys, something seems to be wrong with the commenting system here.
wahlau: unfortunately the bystanders should have pull both aside or at least hear what is going on before making their choice.
earl: yeah unfortunately for the bystanders, they may or may not be charged with obstruction of justice.
that happens all the time to store detectives. I’ve been chased by the police running after a shoplifter.