Homeless man makes off with stash of cash at Paris airport
French police are looking for a homeless man who made off with €300,000 in cash that he found by chance at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
CCTV footage from Friday afternoon shows the man rifling through bins near to the office of transport company Loomis.
The cameras filmed him accidentally leaning on a door leading to the company’s cash depot, which security staff had mistakenly left open.
The man, aged around 50, went into the room with his suitcase and is seen a few minutes later leaving with two large bags stuffed with cash.
He then quickened his pace and made off to a road which is not covered by CCTV.~
Although he is unidentified, the man is known to security as one of ~the dozens of homeless people who move around the airport rummaging for scraps.
The incident was described by Le Parisien newspaper as one of the biggest ‘bloopers’ in the history of crime.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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