Kalispera people, we come from Serbia, spent beautiful time by the sea but we’ve had our bag (with phones, wallets etc.) stolen on a beach in Crete a few days ago. One phone got turned on today and it’s showing its location via Find my iPhone.
We’ve been to the place but it’s some shady house and we couldn’t do anything about it.
Police IS NOT WILLING to do anything about it. We’ve tried everything – contacted police (been physically and filed a report and also reported the location), airbnb hosts, embassy, locals, people around the house. Police is saying it’s not their job.
We’re desperate. Here’s the location. Please tell us if you have any other idea what to do.
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Posted by ele9ija
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Call the police and tell them someone attacked you and hide in the house.
Make a fuzz about it. Speak to television and news papers. Maybe if the world learns how incompetent they are they will do something.
Honestly, why would police do anything ? The phone is inside a private residence and all you got is an image saying it’s there. Police can’t just randomly go knock on the door and get inside. I understand why it is frustrating, but a private residence is an asylum in this country. They would need a court order to force their way in. Plus a court official to be present as well. And honestly the hassle is so much that nobody is gonna go through it just to give you your phone back, that’s the truth. If you want to force the issue you need a lawyer. And by the time all these things have happened, the phone will probably be long gone. Take the loss and next time leave your valuables at the AirBnB. If you have travel insurance, you might be able to claim payment from them for the lost things.
1) Ask for your visit to the police station to be written down in the “book of incidents” (vivlio simvanton) of the police station. Every police station has one where they write down who visited them and what was their request. You can use that as evidence in the future.
2) Ask them to talk with the district attorney that’s on duty and explain to him the situation. If they say no, then call the numbers here ( or visit them) and tell them what’s going on:https://eisaggeliaefeton-kritis.gov.gr/contact/
3) Go find a lawyer and he’ll handle this for you.
Where your passports also stolen along with your other stuff? Since you will need them to leave the country maybe the embassy will be willing to provide you with extra help and you need to file a report with the local police for that matter. Anyway police need a warrant to search a house here in Greece which needs an official DA to validate it. It would be easier with a lawyer.
Have you try confronting them, if possible of course
Do you have AppleCare+ Theft and Loss protection? If so, it sounds like there isn’t much you can do other than take the L and file the claim with Apple to get a replacement. I’d remotely erase the phone but DO NOT remove it from find my as that would remove the activation lock on it so then the device would be usable/sellable to the person who has it now.
If you don’t have AppleCare+ theft and loss protection, check with your cellphone provider to see what kind of insurance or protection you might have on your plan.
If you have travel insurance then just get a report from the police indicating that you reported your phones stolen and then provide the report on your insurance provider to reimburse you for the value of your phones.
The reality is that the police won’t do much else for a couple of stolen phones. It’s not a high priority issue for them, and as others said, they won’t go around kicking door for 2 cell phones which you may not even be able to prove yourselves that they’re yours (proof of purchase/ownership etc).
Did you try contacting your provider and see if you can lock down these phones so that they can’t be used? In North America phone providers are able to tag iPhones (not sure if they can do with Android phones too) as “stolen” and these phones are then locked down and can’t be used anymore.