He loves his Gony so much that he has his name tattooed on his right wrist. On the left, Angelina (name has been changed) has her own nickname, “Angie,” written on it. The ink is still fresh and his skin is red from the needle pricks. The teenager, 16 or 17 years old at most, proudly shares the result on the social network TikTok, with many heart emojis: “You I love my love. » The young woman has the beauty of reality TV stars: artificial blonde, bright lipstick, eyebrows dyed with a brush.
His life is paraded on TikTok in a spectacle of videos, with a backdrop of Bosnian love songs full of melancholy. Angie on vacation in Barcelona, smoking hookah. Angie with her little sister, accomplices. Angie in front of the Eiffel Tower with her Gony, a small brunette with a baby face and a feather-thin mustache. Angie with a wad of cash. Angie in a big car going 150 mph down the road. Angie with a man showing a gun on his belt. Angie with another, mockingly, brandishing two hammers as if displaying weapons ready to strike…
Angelina is not a teenager like the others. She doesn’t go to high school. No one in his family goes to school. The H., a clan of Bosnian origin, have another ambition for their -numerous- children: to fly. On the Paris metro, the RER, at Disneyland Paris, at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Preferably foreign tourists, who stock up on cash upon arrival in France. A hand discreetly slipped into a bag, a traveler moved a little closer to access his wallet, and presto! Pickpockets disappear as soon as the train doors close.
Most of the time, thieves are thieves, whose refined appearance has nothing to do with the caricature of Roma that some convey. What better way to go unnoticed than by looking like girls your age? On a good day, the clan can accumulate up to 5,000 euros of “income”. An easy and light life, apparently, although far from the nails. In the videos, Angelina rarely takes off her Gucci belt. But social networks are the showcase of cheap happiness.
Expanding organization
The reality can be read more in the grounds of accusation issued in March against six leaders of the Roberto H. clan, on which Angelina depends: “theft in an organized gang”, “money laundering”, “criminal association”, “trafficking of human beings”… That month, the network was decapitated by the child protection brigade, after a wave of arrests that put an end to two years of investigation Just in time for the celebration of the Olympic Games, which saw thousands parade. of visitors to Paris all summer long, will not be ruined by too agile hands.
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