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Not just the Anglo-Saxons...

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The sharp rise in cases of gas theft was the topic of this week’s "66 Minutes" broadcast on M6 in France; from the programme’s synopsis:

The explosion of gas thefts.
"It’s unprecedented: in certain gas stations, the number of motorists who drive off without paying has tripled in the past few months. Others fill up and leave a piece of ID or jewellery as a ‘deposit’. With the rise in prices, fuel is even becoming the object of trafficking on a large scale. Tankers siphoned, lorries hijacked, such cases are proliferating in France. In the vicinity of motorways, diesel can be bought ‘under the counter’ from unscrupulous tanker-drivers. In Aix-en Provence, a vast network of fuel trafficking, with a turnover of a million Euros, was dismantled by the police on the 20th May. Our inquiry into this new ‘petro-criminality’."

I’m sure the same trends are no less prevalent here in the UK. In fact, the porous border of Northern Ireland with the Republic has always been a conduit for fuel smuggling into the UK and was once a major source of revenue for the paramilitaries there.

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RE: Not just the Anglo-Saxons... by Brandon :: NR9

I was in Scotland last week and this was all over the news. Apparently some gas stations were taking extra precautions against drive-offs, such as installing strips of those tire-slashing things like they have at car rental places (whatever they’re called).

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