A bank robbery like in a film: four robbers enter a bank in downtown Athens in the district of Ambelokipoi, near the Greek police headquarters. They enter the bank at around 2:15 pm and thus the one after the other. Bank branches in Greece close for the public at 2:30 p.m. At this time there are 8 bank employees and 5 customers.
The robbers are heavily armed and wear silicon masks with the faces of Greek politicians.
Under threat of violence, they take hostages, the employees, the bank manager and a couple of customers. They force the employees to take them to the bank’s safe and also show them the safe deposit boxes. They opened them with drills.
When they finish their ‘work’, they leave the bank …walking. It is not known whether a vehicle was waiting for them nearby.
It’s only then, at 4 pm, that the bank employees manage to inform the police. It arrives immediately but the robbers have fled.
The height of the prey has not been disclosed. Private ANT1 TV reported that the prey form the bank safe was some 60,000 euro and that the robbers opened around 21 safe deposit boxes.
Police but also the anti-terror department investigate trying to identify the thieves from surveillance footage.
According to Greek media, the robbers seemed to know very well the bank structure.
Police estimates that the robbery might have some connection with urban guerilla groups. In the past police had clues that urban guerilla joined forces with common criminals in order to support the so-called ‘revolution fund’, media note. According to ANT1 TV, two of the robbers spoke Greek with an accent.
The Piraeus bank branch in Ambelokipoi is very near to the headquarters of the Greek police. This fact didn’t seem to bother the robbers who had apparently a well worked out plan.
sources: newsit.gr, protothema and others
PS interesting. several traders on twitter reacted to this post saying it reminded them of “Point Break”.
As a matter of interest, which politician stole the most money in this bank raid?
Greeks asking whose politician the mask the robbers wore
Yes indeed, we need to know !
So I guess anarchists will use the money to buy guns and more molotov cocktails. = ((