My Little Thief: “I’m a little jealous of his Playmobil collection”

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Candy at the grocer's, a coin in the parents' wallet, a trinket in a shop... Almost all, if not all, children and teenagers have already committed a little theft, because they fancied it or to show off to their friends. Whether we were caught or not, these petty thefts often remain etched in our memory. In September, a tobacconist in Uzès, in the Gard , received a letter of apology and 50 euros from a man who had stolen sweets from him as a child... Libération has collected stories of petty thefts. Today, Pierre (1) tells how his jealousy of his cousin's Playmobil collection led him to steal one.

“As an only child, I often went to play at my cousin’s house, who lived like me in the Strasbourg region, just in the apartment above mine. He had a great collection of