A Swede and an Israeli were the last victims of a Medellin gang that targeted tourists on Tinder in order to rob them.
According to the Israeli, through Tinder he met a woman who called herself Lina. He went on a date with her in a restaurant in El Poblado, Medellin.
After the appointment he decided to accompany her to her house taking a vehicle requested by the woman, saying it was from an application. The car that would be driven by Fabián Humberto, who works on one of these transport platforms, arrived to pick them up.
A few kilometers after boarding it, two men got on, apparently Juan David and Juan Pablo, while the woman escaped, according to the police report known.
During the tour through Medellin, which lasted two hours, the criminals stole a jacket valued at $300,000 and $200,000 in cash, in addition to payments for $1,500 ($7,159,500) with a credit card, a PayPal transaction in the name of this foreigner for 3,000 dollars ($14,319,000) and a Google Pixel 5 cell phone, with a commercial value of 500 dollars ($2,386,500). The total amount of the theft was $24,365,000.
On the way, this Israeli engineer was hit with the handle of a traumatic weapon, causing injuries to his head, cheekbone and right shoulder, for which he was treated at the Manuel Uribe Ángel Hospital in Envigado.
According to official reports the Swede found at the foot of the cerro de las tres cruces also had his belongings stolen after having an appointment with a woman, whom he would have met through Tinder.
Police assumes that these two people would not be the only victims of these criminals.