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Crossdressing crime wave

When a ban on men working in women’s shops was announced two months ago, there were concerns that security could be a problem without male guards.

But few could have predicted the move would lead to a cross-dressing crime wave.

On Monday, police arrested seven Afghans whom they accuse of dressing in abayas to rob stores. The men targeted shops staffed only by women, a senior police officer said.

The abayas brought the dual benefit of gaining the men access to women-only shops and disguising their identity to make them harder to catch… SOURCE

“We [had] several complaints of men robbing women shops almost on a daily basis,” the officer said. “The cases were so many that police decided to make a plot to catch the criminals.”

The thieves would usually enter stores staffed by a lone saleswoman and threaten her with a knife. They would take money, clothes and jewellery.

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Posted in Bizarre UAE Stuff and Crime and Punishment 11 months ago at 10:28 am.

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