当地时间7月31日，巴拉圭首都机场发生一起罕见抢劫案，一名中国公民装有100多万美元现金的手提箱，被5名枪手当着警察的面抢走。8 m# H" a; x9 b
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最新消息称，这起抢劫案发生在巴拉圭首都的一个机场的候机大厅，而且就发生在警察的眼皮下。 ! c2 ?6 ]+ {) v. k( a6 ~# S& Q ^) w8 c u
机场警方负责人对媒体表示，当时执勤的警察都对眼前发生这一幕“惊呆了”，5名持枪抢匪抢走了一名中国公民的手提箱，并带着这个“战利品”扬长而去。 + B- B3 A/ r5 J6 \8 M. x7 P8 q( Q h
机场警方负责人萨纳布里亚(Julian Sanabria)说：“他们(抢匪)手持自动步枪，走向一名中国乘客，然后抢走一个装有100多万美元现金的手提箱。我们警察都很惊讶，但由于当时还有150多名乘客等在候机厅，我们无法向他们开火。” 5 `; f" V0 D) R7 b2 \- O. `. K. m2 q, ~: `
美联社报导说，据巴拉圭机场警方确认，这位被抢的中国人名叫Don Jon Kin，此人在机场设有一个外汇兑换服务台，他也是巴拉圭居民。$ I0 s" A) k8 R
- z4 G" b, y' r7 Y$ @* l5 o, k机场警方说，抢劫案件发生时，Don Jon Kin正准备把两个装有现金的手提箱送到乌拉圭的蒙得维的亚(Montevideo)，将其存在一家银行。警方称，很明显这是一次合法的转款。8 N% h6 \: g0 ?
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但根据巴拉圭方面的规定，携带巨额现金进入这个国家，必须进行申报。可此案的受害者却从未这样做。, p2 w' r, V [
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据悉，在5名抢匪抢劫过程中，由于行动匆忙，他们没有抢走另一个装有美元现金的手提包。据报导，这个手提包已被警方调查人员扣留。有关方面没有透露这个手提包内装有多少美元现金。 2 A) X9 G2 q* t# N. Y4 P/ E/ l* }; Y8 i. d' c. Z* s
Man out $1 million in Paraguay airport heist ; a5 T$ N5 W" Z+ `: T, I; `Five alleged robbers with automatic weapons rob Chinese citizen of case0 B, r1 N1 o1 a8 x. Y0 ^
`! ]0 H8 E6 f3 C. l8 xJuly 31, 2007 & @, o L" n3 J8 d) A9 g; z$ ~; rASUNCION, Paraguay - Gunmen robbed a Chinese citizen of $1 million on Tuesday during a brazen holdup inside an airport in the Paraguayan capital.- d$ ]7 Q" l. T3 B1 L1 h
. u* c5 B0 L0 s. U" U. mThe heist in an airport boarding area caught police by surprise, and five assailants got away with the booty, police officer Julian Sanabria told reporters.1 E5 d* P V; i, W- x' j+ ^
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“With automatic weapons in hand, they went up to the Chinese passenger and took away the case with a million dollars,” Sanabria said. “We police were all surprised, and also we could not fire because there were 150 passengers waiting in the boarding area at that moment.” $ C5 o" j: c b6 N, [; l2 {- h/ ]& X- Y
The victim of the robbery, identified by police as Don Jon Kin, owns a currency exchange business at the airport and is a resident of Paraguay.- [2 N( G& i! U. n2 O4 M: ]( u
( I2 W" K- J4 x, F: c! y) |Police said he was transporting the money to Montevideo, Uruguay, to make a bank deposit in an apparently legal transaction. Large amounts of cash must be declared when entering another country, but in this case the victim never got that far. 4 Q$ M. e6 O1 l$ A& u 4 x( m1 \1 C) \In their haste, the assailants did not take another bag of dollars that was impounded by investigators. Authorities did not disclose how much was in that bag.
