With the break-in to a BNP Paribas Fortisfiliaal in Antwerp yesterday, twenty to thirty safes broken open. According to the Antwerp public prosecutor, the thieves entered through a hole in the floor. Today, research continues further. The owners of the hundreds of safes in the local know, however, is still not or not they are affected or not, what this morning until frustration led in the office.
The burglars who toesloegen in the kluizenzaal grooves first a tunnel of at least four metres from a house in the Nerviërsstraat, that cut right to the Belgiëlei runs (see map below). From there they crawled through the rioleringsstelsel to the bank, where she is a tunnel dug in the direction of the kluizenzaal. Yesterday at 13.44 called the security firm to the police because the burglar alarm went off while the local pass is still closed. Only when the employees of the bank the kluizenzaal opened, it became clear that thieves through a hole in the floor, were touched.
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“From the further findings show that the dug hole is a tunnel that leads into the sewers under the Belgiëlei,” says the public prosecutor. “The Rapid Response Team (SRT) of Antwerp did a review in the tunnel. The SRT’ers have in the sewers than a second tunnel discovered in the basement of a building on the Nerviërsstraat came out. There were currently no suspects are found.” the
last Night and this morning was the research in Antwerp, without prejudice to further. On the pavement for the bank, the police with a blue stripe and the presumed location of the tunnel in the direction of the bank. According to some clients is the kluizenzaal not on the street side and the tunnel so at least five to ten feet long.
Also for the house in the Nerviërsstraat is the tunnel referred to. The residents of the apartments above the basement were yesterday a short time arrested, but are already released. According to them, was the basement for a long time empty.
