Hotel Safe Crime Wave Targets Italian Resorts, Saudi Princess
Watch you put in your hotel room safe in Italy this summer as a wave of high-profile robberies have taken place, with one becoming a diplomatic incident.
This weekend, an unidentified Saudi princess—perhaps the same who defaulted on all those shopping bills in London—had 15.6 million dollars worth of jewelry stolen from her hotel room safe. They actually took the whole safe, as it was only affixed to the wall with silicon, and they managed to do it in a period of ten minutes while everyone was at dinner.
Although the hotel has been identified as the Colonna Hotel in Porto Cervo, one of the many Iti Resorts on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda, we'd continue to be careful as this seems to be not only an inside job (they used a master key), but also a crime wave.
Similar techniques were used recently in another Iti Hotel burglary on the Costa Smeralda, this time stealing the safe of a Moroccan businessman and €150,000 worth of jewelry and money, and yet another in the Italian town of Portofino, where a German had his room safe stolen along with a 1 million Euros worth of jewelry and 3,000 Euros in cash.
From the sound of those safe contents, it's almost as if the visitors were just asking to get robbed. You don't keep items that costly in your personal, crappy hotel room safe. You ask the hotel manager about their security capabilities. Perhaps they have a more secure house safe, or can arrange storage within the nearest Swiss bank, where you no doubt already have an account.
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