A spectacular theft appears to have occurred over the weekend in the belgian port city of Antwerp.
This writes the british newspaper the Guardian.
Thieves have allegedly secured access to a BNP Paribas-the bank by crawling through the sewer pipes. Then they fled again without leaving traces.
Belgian investigators have been trying to get an overview of the situation since Sunday afternoon, where the bank’s security company sounded the alarm.
the Thieves are allegedly begun in a building opposite the bank on the street Nerviërsstraat. Here they have dug a four-meter long tunnel to get access to a sewer pipes that run under the road.
From this point on, the thieves have climbed through the tube – which has a diameter of 40 centimeters – before they dug even a four-meter long tunnel. It must have given access to the bank’s boxes, writes The Guardian.
– We have found a tunnel that leads to the sewer.
We examined, first, whether it was safe to go down in the. Then we found out that there was another tunnel that led to another building, said a spokesman for Antwerp’s police, Willem Migom, to the british newspaper.
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Belgian police were massively present when the theft was discovered on Monday. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Unknown magnitude
It is not known what the thieves have stolen in connection with the coup. BNP Paribas does not want to comment on the incident to The Guardian.
A woman from an adjacent street says to the newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, that she had heard ‘a lot of bashing’ of the past couple of days.
Roger Moorthammer, who is the spokesman of the belgian police, says that they ‘don’t have any idea who the perpetrators are’, writes The Guardian.
the Bank is close to Antwerp’s famous diamond district. Here was in 2003 and committed what is called “the heist of the century”. Thieves stole the diamonds, gold and jewels for a value of more than 100 million u.s. dollars.
