RELEASED: 23 May 2019 at 16:55
![A policeman brings Meriem Laurent, 40, to the Pattaya police station after he tried to steal a Huawei smartphone at a shopping centre on Wednesday night. (Photo by Chaiyot Pupattanapong)](https://pattaya.today/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Frenchman-held-for-stealing-Huawei-phone-in-Pattaya.jpg)
PATTAYA: A Frenchman has actually been jailed at Tukcom Pattaya centre on Wednesday night for taking a Huawei P30 Pro mobile phone.
The event taken place at about 9.30 pm. The suspect, determined as Meriem Laurent, 40, was apparently pretending to take a look at numerous designs of smart phones on display screen when the theft took place. He apparently took the 31,900-baht Huawei phone from a cubicle while its supplier was sidetracked at the IT shopping center.
As an alarm was connected to the phone, it called and the supplier pursued him. Later on, other individuals in the shopping center assisted stop the Frenchman. The theft was likewise captured by security electronic cameras.
Cops likewise discovered the Frenchman had actually gone into Thailand unlawfully.
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The monitoring video camera video footage reveals the theft.