Builders working at a construction site.
Builders working at a construction site.
  • French police have warned about an Irish gang defrauding property owners by posing as builders.
  • The gang offers to pave areas with tar at a far lower price than normal but the work is substandard.
  • They actually belong to the Rathkeale Rovers, a criminal clan named after a town in Ireland.

Police in France have sounded the alarm about an Irish gang posing as builders to defraud property owners after some 2,000 complaints were filed in the past five years, Le Parisien reported.