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Today, Europe's pickpocket capital.

So apparently our friends here have found two or three pickpockets.

Let's confront them.

Pickpockets! Watch out guys, pickpockets here!

Watch out, pickpockets!

Tell them why they do this. Ask them, please.

We're from America. This is our second time here. Have you been pickpocketed?

Yes. Okay. My husband was.

It's full of this here in Venice, and we cannot ignore the fact that those

innocent-looking girls are stealing from grandmas, are stealing from

grandfathers, are stealing from innocent tourists.

Come in closer and push me.

It's almost like they were waiting for you.

Yeah,

they were there in the crowd.

Buongiorno, amici. New episode today. And today, Europe's pickpocket capital,

Venice. And also, it's my first time here, so let's be fair. I have to check

it out.

Behind me, again, a big group. And to be very clear on this topic, these guys

behind me are not a fighting crew. The only reason they are joining me today is

because of the fact that I, nowadays, simply cannot do my job safely anymore.

Sad, but reality.

So, let's catch some pickpockets today. Let's hunt them.

Andiamo! So for this trip, I met up of course with Jolly, speaks Italian,

lovely guy. He was with us in Bologna as well.

And I also met up with an Italian pickpocket hunter here in Venice.

And that's very convenient because we have to be sure he knows all those guys

here by faces. So as soon as he spots one, we're going to confront them.

Thanks for being here.

and today we came here to stop those thieves from stealing from people

exactly that's the main goal yeah that's the main goal because it's a real plague

here in venice let's do something against it so guys let's start off by

saying how beautiful this place is how beautiful venice is

really it's uh it's beautiful it's again it's my first time but look at the

ambience here look at the environment look at yes my first time but everyone

knows you yeah but not from my visit here maybe from other videos the guys is

beautiful it's really beautiful good work they always say thank you for what

you're doing yeah they're positive yeah not all not all by the way most of them

are positive bellissimo so our friend

He's walking approximately 20 meters in front of us, mainly because of the fact

that, again, he knows them by face. And when those guys see us with the whole

group, yeah, of course, they're going to f*** off. So let him do the scouting.

You don't know for sure? You don't want to take the risk?

Okay, we're not going to take risk. Let's go.

Okay, to be clear guys, when we don't know it for sure, we're not gonna take

the risk.

We're not gonna take the risk of them being embarrassed, of them falsely

accusing. We don't want that. Yeah. They're not wearing fake Gucci. No, man,

it's like fake Gucci, fake stuff. People are obsessed with their image, that's

the best way to tell it.

Not the one with the dog, but the few that were in the corner and stuff, to

me, they looked exactly like the dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know?

But again, guys, we cannot take the risk.

Look, guys, how beautiful.

How idyllic this looks.

So, guys, we have special company today in Italy.

The Rabbit joined us again. On the previous trip, he was joining us as well

in Liège, Belgium.

And right now, he's helping us out security-wise. So I'm very grateful for

that. And also something personal.

As you may know or not know, my friend is suffering from a brain tumor.

And as you probably know, the treatments are very expensive.

So he started a GoFund himself several years ago. But because of the fact that

the treatments are that expensive, he still needs a little bit of financial

support. So I want to ask you, my beloved viewers, support this guy. He is

supporting us as well.

and donate what you can to this legend.

I did a lot of treatments already.

It's helping me to extend my life.

Let's go for it, guys.

So my friend Jolly is starting his YouTube as well. He's big on Instagram.

I figure many of you know him already on Instagram, but he's starting his YouTube

as well. Make sure you give him a follow. He's going to upload multiple

videos in the future.

Support this guy. Again, he's a legend.

I want to be part of the people who want to save Europe because we can't just let

those people come to Europe and invade Europe with their relations and with

their bad character.

So Europe have their own culture and we got to abide to those cultures. If you

don't want to stay and abide to the culture, you got to go back to where you

come from.

As a part, it's easy.

No criminals, no drug dealers.

No to stealing.

Exactly. Let's save Europe, guys.

And another beautiful squad, guys.

Excuse me, but I don't know the name of the place exactly, but...

So far I would definitely go on a romantic trip With my girlfriend

Do it so far. I look at this guy's tourists go

home Unbelievable, there's so many money coming from tourists and tourists should

go home Okay

And guys, look at this guy working his ass off. Do you need help? Help?

Help?

Okay.

Love it, love it. Working his ass off. Imagine you have to carry those big

things all day long here with all those stairs in Venice.

Respect to you. So apparently the pickpockets steal their stuff and they

gather it here behind those boxes.

Empty? No, there's nothing.

Not yet.

Nice to meet you. My name is Tom.

Where are you from, if I may ask?

We're from Switzerland.

Switzerland. Basel, Bern?

Zurich. Zurich. Ah, okay. According to media, this is a pickpocket hot

zone. I was also told this.

I have an experience of it.

But we've only been here one day.

Let's hope you keep it up. How is Switzerland, though?

In what regard?

For example, is it safe?

It's safe, sure, it's safe, yeah. Has it changed in the last years?

I would say so, yeah.

In what way? There's, you know, sketchy characters, yeah, some rubbish.

As part of the culture, unfortunately.

And you just kind of accept it.

And then in Zurich it's always been, I feel, isolated from that. Or Switzerland

in general has just been kind of its own hub, you know.

The Singapore of Europe, so to speak, right? Everything's orderly, clean. So

like you...

Correct me if I'm wrong. You preserved your own culture for a long time and you

kept it safe.

I'm an immigrant myself.

I'm not actually from Switzerland. I'm from Bulgaria originally.

Sofia? Yes.

Okay, nice to meet you. Yeah, I've been there.

No, I'm from Holland. I can't speak to maintaining the culture because I'm not

part of it as such, even though I try my best to be a good resident. Ah, I

understand where you come from. Yeah, okay.

But... it just has changed in the sense that I feel like people in general just

care less and things are just kind of falling everything's just kind of being

how would that be because I wouldn't expect it from a country like

Switzerland oh yeah yeah you wouldn't right because in my in my head

It's comparable to Poland, for example.

I think, well, first of all, we're surrounded by Germany, France, Italy,

Austria. And we're part of Schengen as well. So we have the open borders.

Open borders. So people from Germany and France will come and go a lot.

Maybe influence that to some degree.

But yeah, that's my going theory.

Although things are getting...

maybe more extreme as well in the reaction to that.

People are more, in my opinion, more heated.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

So we'll see. I hope you have a nice trip in Venice. Thank you very much, you

too. How long are you staying?

Just a few days. A few days.

Like a romantic trip?

We're here with our family.

You're a couple, aren't you? We're a couple, yes.

I wish you all the best. Thank you. Likewise.

Thank you very much. How do you say goodbye in Switzerland?

Because it's not as German.

It's Swiss German officially.

Well, unofficially.

But ade would be the kind of... Ade.

Like adieu. Not auf Wiedersehen, but adieu.

Ade is one way. And then the auf Wiedersehen in Swiss German is auf

Wiedersehen.

because instead of saying which is the high german way of saying to look they

say

which is yeah which i think is from looking so they're just like yeah in

english it's to look so they're like yeah yeah so it's a mix between german

and english basically uh don't say that it's not an

insult to me uh this is my theory this is my understanding of where they are i

think if you ask them they will be very offended if you say that ah okay um i

won't mention it yeah just okay okay thank you very much thank you very much

have a nice day bye lovely people lovely people Are you from here? Yeah.

Are you from Venice?

Nice to meet you. My name is Tom. Nice to meet you. Tom, where are you from?

I'm from Holland.

Amsterdam?

Amsterdam? In Curaçao. In Curaçao.

Ah, okay, okay.

What do you think of Venice, sir?

Venice is amazing.

Yeah, it's beautiful.

Venice is always Venice, no matter what they say, too many people, too many

friends, too many, it's going to be finished.

What do you think about the pickpocket status here?

That's all over.

Fuller? All over there are people, there are pickpockets. But what does the

police do here in Venice?

What the police?

Nothing special. What the police doing all over the world? Nothing.

Nothing? You think they're not acting up to it? So what do you do for a

profession?

I have a YouTube channel.

Nice.

What do you do for a profession?

I'm a fashion designer, I'm an architect, a concept man.

Whatever is a concept I invent and they follow.

53 years ago.

May I ask the brutal question? How old are you? What do you think?

I would say like 59, maybe 61, but you said 53 years ago, then you should be

10. I'm 70. In a month, I'm 70.

I was born October 12, 56, and I'm a great-grandfather.

And my oldest son is almost 52. He's in Amsterdam.

He is in Amsterdam. You know him.

You know him. I know him. Who is he? Tim Immers.

Tim Immers. Help me out. Tim Immers, he was from Gute Tijd, Schlechte Tijd.

Seriously?

What's his character named?

Mark. He was the blonde guy in 2000.

I work in the Den Haag.

I had a girlfriend else. I met in Cannes.

stage and then She was with two stages. I got a little bit.

I said, hey so Marie get the mean Why is the father of two members and then there

was on the street a girl in front of the Francis? And she was drunk. She was

singing great. Yeah, I say if you come up and go to pop. Yeah You sing there, I

make you a star.

She did. She did. She became a star.

Who is it?

Who is the singer number one in Holland?

Singer number one in Holland? Yes.

Andre Hazes.

Anouk. Oh, Anouk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's still drunk.

She made five children like me. I got nine.

I got nine children. Okay,

it was nice meeting you. Good. I wish you all the best.

Who are the roses for?

This, I'm going to meet Daria. For your 10th marriage.

No, no, now I ask him that. Please don't marry me. Okay, no, no, no.

What is your name? My name is Tom.

Lovely guy. Good guy. As you call him, a good guy. A good guy, okay.

So, the most famous bridge of Venice.

Rialto Bridge.

So, apparently...

Our friends here.

Grazie mille again mate.

I found two or three big pockets.

Let's confront them.

Big pockets!

Watch out guys!

Big pockets here!

Watch out!

Big pockets!

Big pockets!

Big pockets!

Watch out, guys.

Pickpockets.

Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait, I want to talk to you.

Wait.

Translate. Put it off.

Translate.

Tell them why they do this. Ask them, please.

We're not going to hurt you.

Girls, we're not going to hurt you.

We're not going to touch you.

We're not going to hurt you.

Why do you steal?

Why do you steal, girls? Come on.

Jolo, tell them we're not going to hurt them.

Okay, let them go. Let them go. Okay, go, girls.

Go, go, go.

Go, go, go.

Go, go, go.

Go and do me a favor. Don't steal from tourists anymore. That's not good what

you do, girls. Get a real job, all right?

Stop stealing, man. Stop stealing.

Are you from Venice?

We're from America.

This is our second time here. Have you been pickpocketed? Yes.

Okay. My husband was.

Seriously? Yes. This man? Thank you.

Nice to meet you. My name is Tom.

Is it that worse?

The lady who talks about these guys...

How did it happen? I was at the train station, and I put money in for a

ticket, and money came out. Like I won the lottery.

Picking up the money.

And then a woman, a middle-aged woman behind me, screamed, got in a fight with

somebody. a husband or whatever big big to do they created a big to do and

they're speaking italian

Total. And we were like, we don't want to get involved in this because we

didn't know what was happening. No, of course. And money is just coming out of

the machine. We think they set it. We think they like pre-set it. So when the

next person comes up and tries to buy a ticket, the machine was going to empty

out all the extra money.

And then that's when chaos and that's when... So how do you

prepare yourself? Because it's your second time in Venice now. Do you do...

So guys it feels a little bit two-sided if you ask me running after

Girls running after 16 17 year old. I guess you know it feels

So we didn't want to do too much but apparently it's full of this here in

Venice and we cannot ignore the fact that those innocent looking girls are

stealing from grandmas, are stealing from grandfathers, are stealing from

innocent tourists. So we have to call it out but on the other hand... And we

advise them to go to school to stop stealing. Yeah. Because that's the only

solution to live a life. If you want to live a life you've got to pass through

the right roads. Yeah. Not the shortcut.

Yeah. Because you're stealing. What are you going to do?

teach your children yeah i think it's because it's in the in their family so

they they are being raised by in the blood yeah yeah but still their parents

took them alongside with them to stay so yeah all watches going up so that's what

yeah okay i'm sorry about that guys if you visit venice watch out just watch

out be careful about your belongings and and yeah just just be alert basically

Patsy boy!

Yeah!

Two whites, two whites.

We are looking for pickpockets.

He is God!

Tell me what? Tell me what?

Fuck off. Fuck off.

Fuck off.

Fuck off.

It's crazy.

Crazy.

Oh!

We were hunting for pickpockets and out of nothing,

a group, a big group of Antifas challenging us

for no reason.

Yeah, yeah, they know we're here. So what happened?

Yeah, of course they do because I saw three of them earlier on. Madam, can I

ask you something? So the pickpockets warned the guys we just...

Fought and they were waiting for us.

No, no, it's got nothing to do with the guys Oh, you don't know possibility

Yeah

So

hello

guys Jolie let me introduce first in my opinion what just happened we were

following two guys two pickpocket guys in the white church you know following

them they didn't do anything wrong yet at that time so we couldn't catch them

but we followed them we thought we we knew for a fact they were pickpocket

guys we followed them around the corner and then we heard big shouting against

you yeah they were saying i'm racist because the summer video from bologna so

they were saying i should go back to bologna that i'm racist i'm a bastard

they will not kill me in the city So I was like, why are you saying all those

things to me? What have I done to you guys? What is the wrong thing I've done?

So they were coming closer and pushing me.

They were waiting for you because it was a big... Yeah, they were there in

crowds, like 100.

There were plenty. Maybe a little bit less, but many people there.

I don't know who called them that were coming that way. I don't know. It's

strange, bro.

According to the Italian lady we spoke before in the restaurant, they were in

touch with the pickpocket guys. The pickpocket wants us out.

of course because they want to do their best they're stealing stuff they're

illegal stuff they were communicating with each other yeah because the lady we

saw there she said those people that told them about us yeah we were in town

yeah so that's why they went there because they said they know we're going

to pass through that way yeah so they went there to wait for us so as i saw us

they started shouting jolly go back to your city you're you're a racist you

bastard you would die in this city i was like what have i done to you guys so

they have all those issues and of course when that uh kind of shouting happens

i'm gonna film it and we tried to be patient but they were spitting on us

pushing us we tried to reason to them i asked them look the footage i asked them

why are you calling me a racist or a fascist or my friend jolly i raised a

fascist and then he came really close to me and we had to push them off for

safety purpose but if they want it They can have it. Yeah, exactly. Because if

they think they have the right to raise their hands on people, we also are

humans. We have our hands and we can defend ourselves.

Exactly. So guys, this was Venice.

Initially, we tried to track pickpockets and eventually we did.

But when we tried to at the beginning of the day, some guys started shouting at

my black friend Jolly and we had to react.

It is a crazy place, but also Venice is very beautiful.

We also have to admit that. Thanks for watching again.

I will see you as promised next week.

Andiamo!