PHUKET: A Frenchman accused of attempted fraud will be deported on a flight off Phuket tomorrow, Phuket police said today.
Marc Lucien Forestier had earlier been fined 3000 baht by Phuket Provincial Court, said Lieutenant Chanarong Prakonger, of Karon Police Station.
''He told us that a friend in France advised him that it was easy to pretend you had been robbed in Thailand and to get away with it,'' Lieutenant Chanarong said.
Mr Forestier had been on Phuket with his wife. He also told police that he feared his wife's reaction if she discovered he had overspent on Phuket.
On Friday, he went to the Karon Police Station, on Phuket's west holiday coast, and told officers that earlier in the day he had made an ATM withdrawal, near the Karon roundabout.
The 20,000 baht in cash had been stolen soon after by two bag-snatchers who escaped on a motorcycle, he claimed.
Police investigated but could find no witnesses to the snatch. Security camera footage also failed to support the Frenchman's account.
He confessed to telling lies and printed a signed note spelling out what he had done:
Police Station Karon
12/04/2013
Marc Forestier
I come from France. Passeport (1/CZ 671429)
I live in Fantasy Bungalow (room 12) I take money 20,000 baths at 12 H 40. After, I go police for complain and say two guys take bags and run away by motorbike. My complain is not true, I lye to Thai police Karon. I lie because I don't want say the true to my family.
I really want this complain no body say writing this for for me.
Marc Forestier
12-04-2013
Marc Lucien Forestier had earlier been fined 3000 baht by Phuket Provincial Court, said Lieutenant Chanarong Prakonger, of Karon Police Station.
''He told us that a friend in France advised him that it was easy to pretend you had been robbed in Thailand and to get away with it,'' Lieutenant Chanarong said.
Mr Forestier had been on Phuket with his wife. He also told police that he feared his wife's reaction if she discovered he had overspent on Phuket.
On Friday, he went to the Karon Police Station, on Phuket's west holiday coast, and told officers that earlier in the day he had made an ATM withdrawal, near the Karon roundabout.
The 20,000 baht in cash had been stolen soon after by two bag-snatchers who escaped on a motorcycle, he claimed.
Police investigated but could find no witnesses to the snatch. Security camera footage also failed to support the Frenchman's account.
He confessed to telling lies and printed a signed note spelling out what he had done:
Police Station Karon
12/04/2013
Marc Forestier
I come from France. Passeport (1/CZ 671429)
I live in Fantasy Bungalow (room 12) I take money 20,000 baths at 12 H 40. After, I go police for complain and say two guys take bags and run away by motorbike. My complain is not true, I lye to Thai police Karon. I lie because I don't want say the true to my family.
I really want this complain no body say writing this for for me.
Marc Forestier
12-04-2013
I am sick of these people who come to Thailand on holiday and think that Thai Police are stupid. Personally I think the fine should have been based on his earnings (if he can afford to come from France to Thailand) and should have been much more. 4000B is not such a large amount of money for a tourist.
Posted by Chirpy Farang on April 15, 2013 16:21
Editor Comment:
The fine was 3000 baht, Chirpy Farang, as the article says. I don't know where you got your wrong information.