The man was buried for about eight hours. The suspect and his accomplices are suspected of planning a bank robbery later this week, during the Feast of the Assumption.
A suspected thief who dug a tunnel with his accomplices in Rome to possibly rob a bank was buried under rubble for about eight hours on Thursday when the ceiling collapsed before being rescued, the Carabinieri confirmed on Friday, May 12. Aug to AFP.
“Two men from Naples were arrested for defying an officer and two others from Rome were arrested for the damage caused, one of whom was the one who was in the hole and is now in hospital, “said the Carabinieri- press service. “Investigations are still ongoing, we do not rule out that they are thieves, this is one of the hypotheses,” added the press service.
A miss?
Dozens of firefighters were busy around a hole to relieve and extract a man who remained buried under hundreds of kilos of earth and construction material after the tunnel collapsed, AFP-TV noted. According to media reports, the man and his accomplices, who were arrested near the empty shop under which they dug the tunnel, allegedly attacked a nearby bank and planned to enter it at the end of the week August 15, the feast of the Assumption , where all of Italy stops.
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The presence of an artisanal tunnel in this area can hardly be explained in any other way than that of a miss, a hypothesis propagated by all the daily newspapers. So writes the Corriere della Sera “The thief was stuck in the tunnel for nine hours”. For La Stampa “the aim was to penetrate the vault”, while La Repubblica is titled “He digs a tunnel for a theft but remains buried”. “No one really paid attention because this store was for rent and everyone thought it was going to be restructured plus there was no noise,” Michele told AFP-TV, a resident of the building overlooking the collapsed portion of the tunnel.