The spectacular and daring assault on Santiago airport of this wednesday ended up frustrated, but open doubts on the security measures of the airport and clarified the sophisticated planning to commit the robbery.
“We know that security is a priority for Chileans and when there is insecurity everything else falters. Today these assaults could be frustrated, but at a very high cost, the cost of human lives,” said President Gabril Bori, quoted from the Emol.com site, alluding to the death of an officer.
The facts occurred on Wednesday, when a dozen thieves tried to steal unsuccessful $32.5 million which had just been unloaded from a plane from the United States.
“A valuable cargo had arrived on a Latam plane from Miami, which was to be picked up by the Brinks company, at which time the subjects broke into the said location and were pushed back by security agents,” said prosecutor Eduardo Baeza, in charge of the investigation.
An official of the Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), identified as Claudio Villar Rodriguez, 45 years oldand one of the criminals.
Villar was a volunteer for the Fire Department, where he served as mayor of the 1st Metropolitan Fire Company South. He lived in La Cisterna e he had two sons. He was at the airport as a security officer, Chilean site Emol described.
The thieves entered the airport with three vehicles at 7:30 in the morning, broke down a gate and headed towards the loading area. Surprised, they fled and set fire to two vehicles as they fled onto a nearby highway.
In the frustrated robbery, according to the authorities, a high level of preparation of the action was highlighted.
“The thugs have arrived with careful planning, violence, and high firepowerdespite this they were rejected by our officials,” Raúl Jorquera, director of the DGAC, told the press.
The $32.5 million the thieves hoped to take would make up the largest robbery in recent years in the country.
The sub-prefect of the Biro of the PDI (Investigative Police) Agustín Urbina, explained that the attackers used long and short weapons and that the security personnel of the money transport company were not armed according to protocol.
The Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalvehe also explained that “it has been achieved identify two people that could be related to events, this link has not been verified, but there are two people who were admitted with ballistic impact injuries at two MRI care centers who have been identified and whether they are related to these events is under investigation. verify. “
other robberies
In 2014, a cinematic assault took place at the Santiago airport, where a group of thieves was took more than 10 million dollarsin a fact known at the time as “the robbery of the century”.
In 2017, another group of attackers stole nearly 16,000 million pesos from the offices of a valuable transportation company in a Santiago municipality, equal to about 19 million dollars and considered the largest amount stolen in Chile.
In 2020, robbers armed to the teeth they stole 15 million dollars of an armored truck at Santiago airport. The robbery took place in an area of international goods warehouses in the Chilean capital airport, where five people armed with rifles and pistols intercepted the armored truck and reduced the guards.
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Source: Clarin
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