Surveillance cameras in the Al-Nakheel area recorded an elaborate theft process that took a few seconds. Two Africans exploited them to extract 15,000 dirhams from a passer-by. One of them was arrested and transferred to the Public Prosecution in Dubai and from there to the criminal court, while the other is being pursued.
The victim, an Indian, said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that he was walking in an area opposite a Malabar supermarket, and a person with African features intercepted him, as he rammed him in the shoulder, then grabbed his arms and kicked several light kicks in his right leg, then apologized to him, justifying that he had misidentified his identity Seconds later, another person pushed him from the back and left the scene, so the victim continued walking, considering that what happened unintentionally. When he checked his pants pocket, he discovered the disappearance of 15,000 dirhams, so he realized that he had been robbed and called in by passers-by and informed the police.
Dubai police reported in the inference record that the surveillance cameras recorded the appearance of the first defendant chasing the victim jogging, then his colleague appeared and kicked him in the leg, and one of them extended their hand in his pocket and pulled the money, and one of them was seized and presented to the victim who got to know the defendant in the diagnostic queue.