The U.S. Embassy and the Reddit community both provide pickpocket prevention strategies for Paris tourists, covering subway safety, street scams and high-risk tourist locations.

Paris is a global tourist destination, the heart of Europe. People arrive worldwide, so prime visiting time in the summer ...

The Foreign Office receives thousands of reports annually from UK nationals scammed or pickpocketed while abroad. Scammers in ...

Europe is generally safe to travel in, but pickpockets and thieves could target people visiting some of the continent's dense ...

The U.S. embassy in Paris reports that about 2,000 Americans report their passports stolen every year, many as the result of pickpocketing.

And for decades — probably about a total of 4,000 days of travel — I’ve never been hit by a thief. Well, my happy streak finally ended: I was pickpocketed in Paris this summer.

Paris, the most visited city in the world by many counts, has been suffering a spate of pickpocketing – and one of its main targets appears to be that relatively new group of tourists, the Chinese.

The world-famous Louvre museum in Paris. Since a highly-public strike in April, museum staff and Paris police have cut down pickpocketing by 75 percent. Photo: Zoetnet/flickr The Louvre has ...