On the night between Friday 3 and Saturday 4 May, a gang of thieves attacked a bank branch in Rimini, attempting to blow up the counter. The attack, however, failed because one of the criminals was seriously injured in the explosion. The accomplices fled, the man was rescued and rushed to hospital, where his forearm was amputated, and then arrested.
A gang of thieves has attacked a bank branch in the middle of the night, attempting to blow up the counter. The attack, however, failed because one of the criminals was seriously injured in the explosion.
The accomplices fled, while the man, rescued by paramedics, was rushed to hospital, where he was amputated a forearm.
The fact happened to Catholicin the Rimini area, where around 4 am night between Friday 3 and Saturday 4 April the ATMs of the ‘Riviera Banca’ agency, in the ‘Il Diamante’ shopping center, in Piazza Berlinguer, were targeted by the group of thieves.
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The technique used is the now known one, renamed ‘marmot‘: a is entered parcel bomb inside the slot of one of the ATMs and a bomb is triggered to gut the machine. But this time something went wrong because he remained in the explosion one of the gang members involved.
To stay wound seriously he was a 36 year old, of Romanian origins. After the explosion, the man remained on the ground, abandoned by the other criminals of the group, in a pool of blood, reporting injuries on the torso, face and losing part of the right arm.
Upon their arrival, the carabinieri requested the intervention of the 118 health workers who had it transported urgently at the Bufalini hospital in Cesena. Here the doctors had no choice but to amputate the limb.
The public prosecutor on duty at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rimini was immediately notified, and he took over the direction of the investigations, aimed in these hours at shedding full light on the incident and trace back The any accomplices.
After receiving all the necessary care and undergoing surgery, the 36-year-old was injured arrested in flagrancy on charges of attempted aggravated robbery. The man is still guarded in hospital, awaiting validation of the measure by the judge.
