Panorama

Woman (37) caught shoplifting for son’s birthday

A 37-year-old woman was caught stealing in Euroshop in Sint-Niklaas, taking products worth 290 euros.

15 August 2026Tagblick Newsdesk

AI-generatedWritten by an AI system, editorially responsible — how we work

Archive photo: Woman (37) caught shoplifting for son’s birthday — Archive photoPhoto: Raw Herring · Flickr · BY-SA

On Friday afternoon, a 37-year-old woman was caught shoplifting at Euroshop in Sint-Niklaas, located in East Flanders. The woman had taken around 290 euros' worth of goods without paying for them.

The woman stated that she intended to use the stolen items to celebrate her son's birthday. This was her motivation for the theft, as she herself reported.

The police found the woman in possession of the stolen goods. The further course of the case is not yet known.

This item was written by an AI system on the basis of the headlines and short teasers of the independently operating newsrooms named below. We disclose this under Art. 50(4), second subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act). Before publication we check origin and verifiability — anything that appears in only one place is not published — as well as language, substance and legally sensitive content. No separate substantive review of each individual item by a natural person takes place; we therefore do not rely on the exemption in Art. 50(4), second subparagraph, of the AI Act. Editorial responsibility for this publication rests with the person named in the imprint (§ 18 Abs. 2 MStV). Please report errors to [email protected] — we will correct or remove the item. Full reports are available from the sources listed.