The theft of passports from foreigners is one of many legal incidents that vacationers endure essentially the most. Robberies occur extra typically when they go away their backpacks within the automobile.
The top of the Directorate of Nationwide and Worldwide Affairs of Solidaridad, Isabelle Cailloux, clarified that inside the scope of her competence, it’s her obligation to supply assist to affected vacationers by referring them to the Heart for the Care and Safety of Vacationers (CAPTA) in order that their consulate can provide them an emergency passport, with which they will determine themselves within the meantime.
The Solidaridad neighborhood employee reported that each week she attends to about 10 folks (two per day) who’ve been robbed.
“Many have their (passport) stolen, others say they cannot discover it. They fly the subsequent day or the identical day and cannot discover it, so they arrive in misery and ask for a alternative,” she reported.
Who steals the doc? Isabelle Cailloux solutions, “In lots of instances reported to us, they go away their backpacks within the automobile, and that’s the place it will get a bit sophisticated. Crucial factor is that they will do all of the paperwork in a single place.”
The top of the Directorate of Nationwide and Worldwide Affairs of Solidaridad added that the affected vacationers also can rely on the Prosecutor’s Workplace of the Specialised Tourism Service, in the identical place, as they contact CAPTA, which is chargeable for tourism, in addition to the Prosecutor’s Workplace to report the lack of the doc and get the eye of the Directorate of Nationwide and Worldwide Affairs of the municipality to place them in contact with their consulate.
When requested how the crimes of theft of passports of overseas vacationers are prosecuted, Isabelle Cailloux defined that this activity doesn’t fall inside the competence of her administration. Nevertheless, she identified that as soon as the passport is reported stolen or misplaced can now not be used, because the employees of the Directorate of Nationwide and Worldwide Affairs will talk this to the consulates in order that it may be declared invalid.
On this topic, Isabelle Cailloux stated that she’s going to ask the consulates if they’ve details about the investigation of this crime towards overseas vacationers, “to gather all this circumstantial proof and transmit it to the president so we will see if there’s a widespread level,” she stated.
The official agreed that the passport isn’t solely used to permit vacationers to return to their international locations or journey to different locations, however that all through Mexico it’s a doc used for identification and required by numerous establishments.
Nevertheless, there are locations like Banco Santander that don’t settle for this doc so that folks can determine themselves. That is what occurred to a citizen who claimed to be Spanish, and after being attacked by motorcyclists on the island of Cozumel, he misplaced his INE once they took his pockets.
