Assault on the Mondialpol vault in Sassari: the hunt for bandits is on

The hunt by legislation enforcement continues all through northern Sardinia and within the province of Nuoro for the armed commando that final evening attacked the vault of the Mondialpol safety institute in Caniga, on the outskirts of Sassari, taking pictures at chest top at a carabinieri automotive, which was riddled with bullets, and at a patrol of the freeway police, who rushed to the scene.

The investigations, carried out by the Flying Squad of the Sassari police headquarters, try to reconstruct the gang’s actions earlier than and after the theft.

Looking bandits

For the time being it’s recognized that the commando was made up of about twenty bandits armed with Kalashnikovs, wearing black and sporting bulletproof vests. Shortly earlier than 8:30 pm they introduced an excavator as much as the fence wall of the Mondialpol headquarters in Caniga, and utilizing the size of the mechanical car’s arm they tore off a grille on the facade and broke by way of the wall of the constructing.

Excavator shot

Whereas two criminals have been working the mechanical car, not less than six, utilizing a ladder, climbed over the fence and entered the Mondialpol headquarters, taking pictures within the air to scare the safety guards. A number of photographs have been additionally fired on the surveillance submit and the officer inside was saved because of the bulletproof glass.

The bandits took 5 or six baggage containing cash, most likely cash supposed for the fee of pensions in a couple of days: the dimensions of the loot has not but been quantified. The luggage have been taken out with the arm of the excavator and loaded onto a white Fiat Ducato van, by which the gang fled in the direction of Cagliari.

The police intervention

Whereas the theft was in progress, a patrol of the Carabinieri and a patrol of the site visitors police, from reverse instructions, reached the Mondialpol headquarters and the bandits didn’t hesitate to riddle the vehicles with bullets, taking pictures at chest top.

The site visitors block

Different members of the commando, estimated to be not less than ten, blocked all the principle entry roads to the Caniga space, setting fireplace to vehicles and strewing the asphalt with nails. On this method they delayed the arrival of the police and coated their escape.

Half profitable shot

The commando managed to grab “solely part of the money current within the constructing and never the contents of the vault – the armored room, which constitutes the guts of the constructing – which was not stormed”. This was specified by Mondialpol itself in a notice by which it’s stated that “the safety methods have usually held as much as the violence of the assault”.

“Regardless of using motorized mechanical means, Kalashnikov-type weapons, bulletproof vests and a company that was meticulously organized, the legal motion was contained because of the promptness of our personnel who, even below stress from enemy fireplace and guerrilla warfare, managed to implement emergency procedures particularly designed to take care of extraordinary conditions such because the one on Friday night,” the corporate stated.

“Our procedures, refined over the course of just about 100 years of historical past, and the preparation of our employees who yearly take part in hundreds of hours of coaching between obligatory and extra programs have performed a basic function in containing the injury – we learn once more within the press launch – The subsequent few hours will likely be basic to reconstruct precisely what occurred, we’re collaborating with the authorities to offer all doable help to the investigations”. Based on what we’ve discovered, in actual fact, the Mondialpol leaders have been in Sassari since this morning for an inspection of the Caniga headquarters: the extent of the loot can even be quantified within the subsequent few hours.

Extraordinary assembly of the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security on Thursday

A unprecedented assembly of the provincial committee for public order and security will likely be held subsequent Thursday within the prefecture of Sassari. Prefect Grazia La Fauci introduced it to the mayor of Sassari, Giuseppe Mascia, who this morning expressed town’s concern about what occurred.