Watch out! Thieves with knives are after your coat
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The trick of the thieves is to approach passers-by and cut their coats with blades or sharp knives in Budapest city center. After several victims have reported the incident, the police are investigating the case.
One of the victims, Barbi, first shared her story on her social media page. The young girl was walking at Deák Ferenc Square in the afternoon when someone approached her from behind. A man started to talk to her in English, saying that her coat had been torn. When the girl reflexively looked behind to check it,
she realized that there was a deep cut on the coat and the filling was falling out of the textile.
Then suddenly a scruffy woman appeared next to the girl saying that her coat should be thrown away as it could not be repaired. Barbi was in shock and immediately replied that she would fix it, just leave her alone. The woman left angrily.
The young girl suspects that the woman wanted to get the coat. After the incident, she posted the case on her Facebook page,
highlighting that she could have been seriously injured when they cut her coat with a blade or a sharp knife.
Hello, my wife had her coat cut with a knife whilst we were visiting the Christmas market next to the Fashion Street on Saturday 11th Dec 2021. Whilst no one approached her directly and she did not see who cut the coat, the incident is very similar to the one reported and I can assume that the person must have realised that my wife was not alone as I walked over to join her and left.