“I was scared, it’s undeniable that it wasn’t a pleasant experience, but when I realized that it was a very disorganized gang I calmed down and waited for the police to arrive.” Bad adventure for Tommaso Bianco, spokesperson for the Prefecture of Rimini, who was among the customers of the Banco di San Geminiano and San Prospero while the credit institution was robbed by three criminals. “I entered the bank while the robbery was already underway – says Bianco – and I found myself in front of the robbers. They were very calm and, to me, the other customers and the employees, they continued to say that they would not harm us. Once I entered, the first thing they asked me was to give them my cell phone. In addition to mine, I also gave them my service phone to be safe so that it wouldn’t start ringing and they might get nervous they waited for the time lock on the safe to open.”
In the meantime, according to what emerged, the robbery alarm went off from the bank which brought the police patrols to rush to Via Circonvallazione Occidentale. “It all lasted about twenty minutes – continues Bianco – and when the robbers saw from the credit institution’s cameras that the ‘gazelles’ were arriving, they realized that the robbery had gone awry. It immediately seemed to me that they weren’t professionals and I was reassured by the fact that they continued to reassure us that they didn’t intend to harm us. In the end, the only moment of real tension was when the police entered but it was the robbers themselves who handed over the money. knives and everything worked out for the best.”
