“Attenzione — ladri, carteristas!” (She makes her announcements in Italian, English and Spanish to alert as many tourists as possible.)
But it’s by seeing her at work in Venice that you really calibrate her impact.
Spiraling petty crime@cittadininondistrattiFor all their fun, Poli’s videos — currently she has 461 up on Instagram — have spotlit a spiraling problem of petty crime in Italy.
Thefts on trains across the country were up 21% — but thefts on trains in Venice were up by a whopping 38.8%.
And that means that Venice, whose estimated 30 million annual visitors dwarf the under-50,000 local population, has become a honeypot for petty crime.
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