Munich - The tale of a bungling
World Cup ticket thief who got his just desserts turned out on
Monday to be an accidental invention of German police.
Munich police had released a statement about the "audacious
thief" who snatched a woman's handbag, found the ticket inside
and sat down to watch Brazil play Australia on Sunday - only to
find himself next to her husband, who alerted the police.
But a police spokesperson later said the statement had mixed up
two different cases - one of which did involve a Brazilian
woman having her handbag and ticket stolen - and the encounter
between thief and husband never took place.
"It was a mistake...In the course of the investigation we
realised we had mixed up things that didn't belong together," he said. - Reuters
