With majority opinion expecting between 11 and 100 violent deaths at the World Cup in South Africa, they're already limbering up. From The Telegraph:
A World Cup photographer was held at gunpoint during a pre-dawn burglary at a lodge used by journalists, raising further concerns about security in South Africa this summer.*
The two robbers, brandishing at least one handgun, made their way undetected through two rooms where journalists were sleeping before rousing a Portuguese photographer in a third room, police and victims said. Antonio Simoes, the photographer, was awakened by the burglars and held at gunpoint for a few minutes while they made off with his camera, cash and credit cards...
* "This summer"? Shouldn't that read "this month"?
* UPDATE: Or, as The Great Simpleton points out: "As the world cup is taking place in South Africa that should be this winter".
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I think there will be more deaths at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, because they have less experience in keeping Western tourists safe, their criminals aren't as easy to spot* and people will be less wary.
* Which is a round about way of saying that if you stick to the wealthier white areas in SA you will probably be safe.
I suspect that most petty robberies of tourists will go unreported as journalists concentrate on the on-field action.
One exception to this rule will be where the petty gun-point robbery is of a journalist. There's no way that's not news. That's starting to get serious. Something for the reporters notebook.
R, off to Re-Education Camp with you!
M, fair point, but I wouldn't describe being robbed at gunpoint as 'petty'.
As the world cup is taking place in South Africa that should be this winter.
TGS, that's me outsmarted and outgunned. I have updated.
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