While digging an underground tunnel to the bank building in order to rob it, a man found himself under a layer of collapsed earth.
Undermining was carried out at a depth of six meters under the main street, an asphalt road passed from above, so it was not easy for rescuers to get to the unfortunate robber.
A banal accident and… a failed robbery. Just a tragicomedy in the style of Italian cinema! It took Roman firefighters eight hours to get the loser. It is difficult to say whether the saying “all’s well that ends well” applies in this case when he was finally rescued. On the one hand, he remained alive, on the other hand, it is unlikely that now for the unfortunate robber the place of residence will remain the same, and life will be comfortable. Three accomplices are also arrested while trying to escape.
The fact that something strange is happening on one of the quiet streets of the Roman district of Aurelio, located a 5-minute walk from the Vatican, the locals noticed a couple of weeks ago: the lights and telephones were regularly turned off at night, and the arriving specialists only shrugged their shoulders – By the time they arrived, the power supply had resumed by itself. When the public utilities suddenly blocked the road and began to pull in construction equipment, the Romans were delighted: their problem would finally be resolved. But what was their surprise when, instead of electricians, the area was literally filled with police, firefighters and rescuers.
The cause of the commotion was a failed bank robber stuck in his own mine, at a depth of 6 meters. Yes, and the cause of power outages was he and his accomplices, who periodically turned off the power and communication cables that interfered with their “work”.
Local residents took the incident in different ways – some with humor, others with indignation. Giorgio Cardelliti, for example, says:
“Looks like the movie Digging Gang. Some people say it’s probably a worker and he just fell down. Why! A worker who accidentally fell a few meters underground!? This is ridiculous!”
A preliminary investigation allowed the police to assume that a gang of robbers rented an empty store, from where they began to dig a tunnel to a bank vault – there are branches of two commercial banks nearby. The criminals, most likely, expected to quietly pull off a robbery, taking advantage of the fact that Rome is traditionally empty on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin (Ferragosto) on August 15th.
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