Thessaloniki: Robbery… fiasco – They tied up the employee and demanded… an invoice
Next Wednesday, the artful young people arrested who broke in that morning, wearing bulletproof vests with the EL.AS logo, should apologize. in a mobile phone store in Thessaloniki.
They are three Roma aged 18, 22 and 22 and a 22-year-old of Albanian origin against the prosecutors who brought criminal charges for attempted robbery, unlawful violence, countermeasures, damage to foreign property, bodily harm and violations of the law on others. The four defendants, who were brought to court at noon on Thursday, were given a deadline to prepare their statement and next week to cross the threshold of the investigator.
What two of the four defendants claimed
“I followed the others without having full knowledge of what exactly they had planned to do,” the 18-year-old arrested apparently claimed, stressing that he will give detailed explanations in his statement before the prosecutor and the investigator.
As mentioned in protothema.grthe 18-year-old’s lawyer, Othonas Papadopoulos, “my client claims that due to his immaturity and young age, he found himself following the rest of the group of people, without having any substantial and active participation in this act”, explaining that in his apology. will report exactly what happened on Wednesday morning.
“It was about one recklessness“, argues the 22-year-old defendant. “The principal is a 22-year-old student, who has not concerned my justice for another reason. We cannot yet say how he ended up there, but our first version is that these are not people who have experience in such acts and this is demonstrated by their clean criminal record,” said the 22-year-old’s defense lawyer, Panagiota Tsichla.
It is being investigated whether a fifth person is involved
According to information from protothema.gr, the police are investigating the involvement of a fifth person in the robbery attempt, which turned into a… fiasco. More specifically, it seems that they are examining the four people who arrived at the store on Monastiriou Street on foot or in a vehicle that was likely to be driven by accomplices, and as soon as he saw that the plan “wrecked” ran away.
From the first moment, the police have in their hands the videos recorded by the store’s security cameras and they have video material from the cameras of businesses located on the opposite sidewalk from the mobile phone store. In this video, it appears to capture the moment a car pulls up, four people get out, and then reverses to drive away. What remains to be ascertained from the police investigations is whether there was a fifth person in the driver’s seat or one of the four arrested perpetrators.
They tied up the clerk and demanded a… invoice – The chronicle of the failed… robbery
It all happened at around 10.30, when the four men, offered the policemen, “broke” into the commercial store on Monastriou street, in the area of Vardari and using physical violence tried to take money from the 23-year-old employee of Pakistani origin. In fact, in order to convince them that they are police officers, they wore bulletproof vests with distinctive badges of the Greek Police, hats with a visor and had a radio in their hands.
According to information from protothema.gr, as soon as the four perpetrators entered the store, they immobilized the employee, tied him up using tieraps and tried to grab the money they had in the cash register. In their attempt, however, to destroy the recording circuit to conceal their identity, they caused power failurecausing the safety rolls to be disabled and to be trapped inside the store.
Realizing that the police forces were rushing to the scene, they began to remove the bulletproof vests they were wearing and threw the three into the shop. stab and the air gun they used to threaten the worker. In fact, when they realized that the police had surrounded the store, they allegedly asked the employee to cut them a… bill of 100 euros, in order to “fool” EL.AS. and pretend them customers that were locked in due to an electrical fault.
As soon as the experienced police officers of the Crime Prevention and Suppression Department and the patrol car crew of the Direct Action Directorate of Thessaloniki arrived at the scene, moments from the action movie followed. The police manage to get inside the shop, with the perpetrators trapped and eventually arrested.
It is recalled that from the investigation carried out in the premises of the store, the following were found and recorded:
– Air gun type pistol,
– (3) folding knives,
– (3) bulletproof carriers (without bulletproof plates) that bore the badges of the Hellenic Police,
– (2) screwdrivers,
– Folding bar,
– Binding cables,
– Fabric adhesive tape,
– Portable transceiver,
– (3) brimmed hats and
– (2) pairs of gloves.
In subsequent searches, the perpetrators’ homes were found and confiscated:
– 1 portable transceiver,
– Electronic devices (mobile phones, laptops),
– Car keys and
– 1 fluorescent vest.
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