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Robbery at the Credit Agricole agency near Piazza Ascoli, between Porta Venezia and Città Studi, in Milan. Police surrounded the branch and blocked the square early in the morning. But the robbers, at least two, managed to escape: it was a quick, almost surgical blow, around 8.35 am, when the branch had just opened and there were three employees inside, the manager and two colleagues.
Robbery in Milan at the Credit Agricole branch: the gang entered from the subway
The police forces have their uniforms stained with mud because they tried to chase the criminals down the sewers near the Credit Agricole branch in via Stoppani 40, in the Viale Abruzzi area, in Milan. The bandits after the shot fired shortly after the opening fled and are still wanted. The bank manager, medicated after a fight with the bandits, said: “They entered from the basement, there were three of us inside the agency, when I realized I yelled ‘there is a robbery’ and a colleague is managed to escape”
Robbery from a bank in Milan, the director taken hostage: “They were found in front of me. They went in and out of the sewers”
When the police arrived at the scene, the thieves were still inside the branch. Before escaping, they threw a kind of smoke bomb inside the office to confuse the agents. They then took some safes and escaped through a hole made in the floor that led to the sewer. “They entered the sewers and asked to open the vault, they tried to steal the safes and when they entered they came out of the sewers, they made a hole in the floor.” This is what the 48-year-old manager of the branch said after the coup, adding: “There were three of us inside the agency, they found them in front of me and I yelled ‘there is a robbery’ and a colleague managed to escape.” . He also raised the alarm while the director, who remained inside, was hit with the butt of a pistol by one of the bandits. There was “a brief fight but they didn’t infuriate me,” he said later.
In addition to the director, 118 staff also visited the 49-year-old employee who stayed with him at the bank and was unharmed and the 30-year-old colleague who managed to escape and was instead in shock.
After the escape, hunting for the gang broke out throughout the neighborhood. Both in the sewers and in the surroundings. The business is complicated by the fact that Milan has a huge sewer network, 1,500 kilometers long and with 43,000 records. The police are still searching. On the nearby Via Eustachi, there is a large local market, usually very busy until lunchtime. The via Stoppani 40 branch was left empty at the disposal of forensics for surveys.
Outside, in the morning, a dozen patrols set up a security zone to avoid risks to passersby.
