My Embassy in Italy reminds Chinese citizens to strengthen their awareness of theft and robbery while traveling to Italy. Train stations | China | documents | Italy | cases | individuals | property | passports
The Chinese Embassy in Italy reminds Chinese citizens in Italy to strengthen their awareness of theft prevention and robbery
Recently, incidents of theft and robbery of personal property and documents by Chinese citizens during their travels to Italy have occurred, causing varying degrees of property damage and causing great inconvenience to their personal travel and work life. After sorting and summarizing, common theft and robbery cases mainly fall into the following three categories:
The first type of cases often occur in densely populated places such as airports, train stations, subway stations, and public transportation. The perpetrator takes the opportunity to steal personal belongings by spilling drinks, making physical contact, and chatting up. In neighborhoods with poor public security, there are also perpetrators who take advantage of the victim's unpreparedness and directly snatch items such as mobile phones and shoulder bags, and quickly flee the scene.
The second type of cases often occur in parking lots at airports, train stations, and shopping areas. The perpetrator searches for and locks a vehicle containing luggage or valuable items, and breaks open the vehicle while the victim leaves to steal the valuable items.
The third type of cases are mostly committed by gangs, or pretending to be tourists and asking for directions innocently using a large map; Or pretend to conduct market research, block the line of sight with a questionnaire, and their accomplices can easily handle it under the cover of such items.
Here, the Chinese Embassy in Italy kindly reminds Chinese citizens that the overall social security in Italy is relatively stable, but theft cases are more common in public places with high pedestrian traffic such as airports, train stations, tourist attractions, restaurants, and bustling commercial areas. Please strengthen prevention and properly keep your documents and property. Please note the following points:
1. usually please keep your passport and other documents properly, check the validity period in advance, and apply for renewal in time before expiration. When you travel, you can take a copy of your passport page with you, or save your passport information in your mobile phone or mailbox for emergencies.
When 2. are in public places such as airports, railway stations, tourist attractions, restaurants and commercial areas, they should strengthen the prevention of theft and robbery, properly keep their documents and property, and ensure that they do not leave their hands, bodies and eyes as far as possible.
When 3. take public transportation, please take your passport, residence card, wallet and other valuables with you. Valuable luggage should be kept within sight. Try not to carry large amounts of cash or count your belongings in public to avoid attracting the attention of thieves.
4. driving a car should pay attention to lock the doors and windows when parking, and make sure that the doors and windows are locked before leaving the car to prevent thieves from opening the door by means of jammers. Do not put personal backpacks or luggage in conspicuous places in the car.
If 5. passport property is stolen, please report to the local police in time. If it is true that the passport cannot be retrieved, you can contact the Chinese embassy or consulate in the local area to reissue the travel document. The relevant contact details are as follows:
Italian Gendarmerie Tel: 112
Italian alarm hotline: 113
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Global Consular Protection and Service Emergency Hotline:
0086-10-12308, 0086-10-65612308
Consular Protection Phone Number of the Chinese Embassy in Italy:
0039-3939110852
Consular Protection Phone Number of the Chinese Consulate General in Milan:
0039-3272862927
Consular Protection Phone Number of the Chinese Consulate General in Florence:
0039-3357748753