An Asian woman has been apprehended in Dubai for begging, with police discovering witchcraft and sorcery items in her possession. The woman believed that carrying these materials would aid her in influencing people to give her money, authorities revealed on Tuesday.
Brig Ali Salem Al Shamsi, director of the suspects and criminal phenomena department at the Dubai Police, stated, “The beggar was arrested in a residential area, and the police found in her possession ‘papers, tools, witchcraft talismans, and magic veils’, which she uses while begging. She believes that they help her influence people to give her the money she wants.”
The arrest came following a tip-off from a resident who contacted the police’s Command and Control Centre.
Law enforcement has intensified patrol activities during the holy month of Ramadan to crack down on begging, which is deemed illegal in the country.
In a similar incident last week, a man disguised as a woman was also apprehended in Dubai for begging.
