Video and photos: the inside of the San Isidro tunnel and the suspicions of the Justice Department

Video: The engineering work created to attack the bank’s vaults

He tunnel found by the Buenos Aires Police and the Justice A few meters from the branch of a well-known bank on Chacabuco Street in San Isidro, it looks, basically, like a civil engineering project, far from being a hasty underworld operation. Care is evident in every step.

Experts who also They investigated the tunnel built to rob the Río bank – the so-called “robbery of the century” of 2006. worked in the last hours on the new structure. These experts told the court: “The new one is much better”they assured.

The specialists of the Buenos Aires Police They entered the structure last night, after drilling a hole more than three meters deep. with an excavator. They had to break up the layer of paving stones. Then, a 60-centimeter layer of cement, plus another meter of earth. Finally, they reached the underground space.

Bags of earth, buckets and the wooden ladder leading to the tunnel

There, they found order. There was organized construction material, formwork walls and an electrical line“as if it were a mining tunnel,” says a key source in the file. They found machines for extracting earth and bags of excavated material. Also, a sort of loft with two mattresses to sleep on. There, in the loft, A ventilation system with pipes and a motor was found.

The tunnel, 150 meters long, reached “one block from the bank”, The same investigator assures. Police experts agree that the work took a long time. “6 to 9 months” to be carried out. After following the path, they discovered that the tunnel It began in a disused mechanical workshop located on Chabacuco Street at 500, a warehouse. At that place, the ground was dug, a wooden staircase was set up and the work began.

The hypothesis is obvious: the tunnel was dug to rob the bank. The cause to clarify the fact is led by prosecutors Carolina Asprella and Patricio Ferrari, under the direction of Attorney General John Broyad.

The mattresses found in the tunnel and the ventilation system

The suspicions became evident to the investigators. “This Not everyone does itit is a level of organization never seen before, the current underworld does not move in this way, with this level of consistency and planning, It is much more rustic”, agrees another main source in the case. From the outset, the investment of time, money and effort made by the gang, in view of the loot, or the chance to rob a bank vault, is striking.

The profile of the possible thieves engineers becomes clearer: This is not a job for kids. In the courts of San Isidro, one thinks of long-standing criminals, veterans with technical knowledge. Basically, and Rio II Bankonly this time, Nobody stole anything, or they didn’t manage to.

Thus, Asprella and Ferrari arranged all the necessary tasks for the first minute of a filesuch as the replacement of public and private cameras and testimonies. Also, They are investigating who owns the workshop where the thugs began to dig.

The tunnel’s formwork walls and its electrical wiring

Despite all the neatness of the criminals, the clue that gave them away was a construction slip.

“They were given away for a stupid thing”says a police source.

Another investigator in the file states: “Meters from the bank, A man in a delivery truck felt an iron bar graze his body. It was a typical construction iron, a rod with a nut that came out from under the ground through the paving, protruding from the ground like an earthworm.

Thus, the Buenos Aires Police was alerted, who, in turn, contacted the bank authorities, who confirmed that they had not detected any anomaly. So, It was decided to break it up, to see where the excavator would take them.