The travel bug may have hit many of us really hard as sitting at home for two years hasn’t been easy. As travel picks up, here are a few venues where you really need to watch out for pickpockets along the way:Paris in general and more specifically the Eiffel Tower has a pickpocketing problem. Street scams are also fairly common. In 2015 the Eiffel Tower had to be shut down as employees held a protest due to the number of pickpocket street gangs in the area.
Thieves see this as a fantastic opportunity to distract you while you go about this ritual and make some money at the same time.This church is another iconic landmark in the beautiful city of Paris. This Roman Catholic Church is located at the summit of the butte of Montmartre. From the dome, two hundred meters above the River Seine, one can see all of Paris and the countryside for 50 km surrounding it.