Bolivian bank robbers are being aided and abetted by an unusual accomplice — the swine flu virus. Now Bolivian banks have banned customers from wearing masks on their premises, in a bid to curb an epidemic of robberies by people taking advantage of A(H1N1) fears to hide their faces.
“We have decided that only staff can wear masks, while clients can no longer enter with masks,” Hoggier Hurtado, president of the federation of savings banks in the central city of Santa Cruz, told El Dia newspaper.
The decision came after a bank heist in broad daylight at the Family Cooperative by five people wearing masks commonly used in Bolivia to protect against the A(H1N1) virus.
Santa Cruz police have backed the decision and police chief Johnny Vargas said thieves are taking advantage of the precautionary measures advocated by health authorities against the pandemic to commit their crimes.
“Unfortunately, there are many people who commit crimes by using masks, which prevents us from identifying their faces despite the security cameras,” Vargas said.
Santa Cruz, located in the wealthiest region of the South American country, is the epicenter of the A(H1N1) outbreak in Bolivia, accounting for 70 percent of the 1,500 confirmed cases of infection.(AFP)
玻利維亞銀行劫匪現在多了一個不尋常的共犯──新流感病毒。民眾擔心感染新流感（H1N1）而戴起口罩，現在玻利維亞銀行為了防止搶匪趁機把臉遮住犯案，禁止客戶戴口罩進入銀行。
「我們已決定只有行員可以戴口罩，客戶則不得戴口罩進入銀行，」中部大城聖克魯斯的儲蓄銀行聯合會主席哈吉爾．賀爾塔多對《日報》表示。
這項決定起因於之前一起銀行搶案，五名搶匪在光天化日之下，戴著玻利維亞民眾一般用來預防新流感的口罩，搶劫了「家庭合作社」。
聖克魯斯警方對這項決定表示支持，警察局長強尼．瓦葛斯說，衛生部門為預防疫情擴大而倡導的預防措施，竟被盜賊利用來犯案。
瓦葛斯說：「很遺憾地，有許多人利用戴口罩犯案，即使透過監視器畫面，警方也難以辨認其身份。」
位於南美洲玻利維亞最富裕地區的聖克魯斯，是新流感群聚感染爆發之所在，該市的感染人數就佔了玻國一千五百例確診病例的七成。（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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