France has some of the highest numbers of pickpocketing reports in Europe, only trumped by Italy. Major tourist sites like the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and the Arc de Triomphe are swarmed with pickpockets, making Paris one of the pickpocketing capitals of the world.“The first time was on my second day in Paris. I was a clueless 18-year-old who wasn't aware of the pickpockets at all,” said Judy Ziyi Gu, a Chinese-Canadian student who was studying abroad in Paris when she experienced two separate pickpocketing instances firsthand. “As I was standing on the escalator going up to the platform at the Ménilmontant station, two teen boys behind me were rifling through my crossbody purse and I didn't notice at all. The French man standing in front of me noticed and shooed them off, and then yelled at me in broken English on the platform, ‘Mademoiselle, you've got to be more careful! You're in Paris now! You can't walk around like that. Attention aux pickpockets!’