Man digs tunnel for bank heist -- then had to be rescued when it collapsed
A
man rescued from the rubble of a collapsed tunnel in Rome has been accused of
digging it as part of an elaborate movie-like plot to rob a bank.
Local
police said on Friday they suspected the man was part of a gang of four who
allegedly planned to carry out the heist this weekend, when the Italian capital
would be relatively quiet due to the Ferragosto public holiday.
The
Carabinieri police's press office told CNN that officers arrived at the
collapsed tunnel on Thursday, after receiving reports that a man was trapped
under the rubble.
Soon
after they arrived they arrested two people suspected of trying to flee the
area by car and, separately, a fourth man.
Rescuers
spent eight hours freeing the trapped man, who remains under medical
observation in the San Camillo hospital in Rome.
Lawyer
Carmine Pascarosa, who is representing the two men arrested in the car, told
CNN the pair had been charged with resisting arrest and were not presently
under investigation for other crimes.
He said the two men denied involvement with the man rescued
from the rubble. According to Pascarosa, he two men said they had been passing
the area "by chance" when a man asked them for help and took them to
a vacant shop that housed the entrance to the tunnel.
Once
they realized what had happened, they called rescuers before leaving the scene,
he added.
Pascarosa
confirmed that a fourth person is being investigated and has been charged
alongside the injured man in relation to the collapse of the tunnel.
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