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irresistibly attracted and snatched up one after the other, despite their desperate efforts, by this voracious hoover. Fortunately, the mischievous criminals are finally "sucked up" in their turn while they are resting from their "work" on the terrace of a wine merchant, by the policemen launched in pursuit. Then the device, delicately turned in the opposite direction, gives back to freedom the unfortunate victims that it had sucked up.
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