UK pop punk outfit Roam have been robbed while on tour in France with Simple Plan. This is the second theft they’ve endured while on tour in the past month. In a bizarre twist with this latest theft though, the band suspect they were gassed while sleeping in their van first, before being robbed. They said of the matter:
“Guys. We woke up yesterday morning in France to find out we’d been robbed…again! This time, from our van while we slept inside. Police think we were gassed so we were essentially knocked out so they could fiddle the lock and get inside.
They took all our cash; show fees, merch money and personal money, but fortunately didn’t steal anything else. But it’s still a huge blow, especially after finding out that our passports had been stolen just 3 weeks ago, 2 days before we were due to fly to Japan, costing us £3000 to replace, change flights and get replacement US working VISAs for Warped this summer.
Basically, we’re in a bit of a financial pickle with lots of bills to pay for and need to continue this Simple Plan tour, as we’d never ever dream of dropping out of doing the best part of our “jobs”.
So we’ve set up a new shirt on our global stores to help us out.
You can buy it here: http://smarturl.it/roammerch
You don’t have to, but even sharing this post will help.
Thanks so much, we massively appreciate your support.ROAM x”
According to the band, the use of noxious gas is common in robberies in France & Italy:
Apparently it’s very common in south France/Italian Service stations for people to spray gas in to keep you asleep. https://t.co/fkwrJL0p4g
— ROAM (@ROAMse) May 14, 2016