A homeless 33-year-old man lacked the money for deposits for an apartment, and therefore he did the robbery at the Casino Copenhagen at Amager Boulevard on Saturday night.
It explained the 33-year-old today in Copenhagen dommervagt, where he outright confessed to the robbery and was remanded in custody for 24 days to the 23. January.
– So you have a roof over your head provisional, the judge said.
– It is fine enough, ” replied the 33-year-old.
He came into the dommervagten with bare feet in a pair of thongs, wearing thin blue fængselstøj and with a gray blanket wrapped about him.
The 33-year-old is unpunished apart from a several years old færdselssag, which ended with a fine and withdrawal of driving licence.
He is on sickness benefit, because he has hurt in the shoulder, and sleeping ‘around’, he explained.
At 18.38 Saturday, he came into the Casino Copenhagen in a black jacket, with masking for underansigtet and wearing gloves. He was armed with a wooden bat, and in the other hand he had a white bag. He walked over to the card table UTH2 and fired this threat to guests and staff:
– It is a robbery. Relationship to you quietly. I just need to have all the money down in this bag now. Quiet and calm. In fact you just quietly.
He was given chips for 1600 kr., namely, 60 pieces, 10 kroner and 20 pieces of 50 kroners. So he ran over in a bar and took nine packs of cigarettes and ran towards the exit.
Photos from the video surveillance was shown in dommervagten: – It amazes me that I go past the three guards, which does nothing, before I come all the way to the table, said the 33-year-old, who’s apparently even thought that the yield was poor.
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– I have been there before. I should be a little further ahead and to the left. It is there the money is, said the 33-year-old.
First he could not really explain why he committed the robbery:
– I don’t know. I needed a place, I think.
a Little later clarified he was that he lacked the money for a deposit for an apartment: – It was in fact, therefore, he said.
Despite the maskeringen had the 33-year-old a very distinctive hairstyle with a ‘cock’s comb’. He fled on foot from the casino, and was arrested as he tried to hide himself on a balcony.
– I was first jumped in the water. It was pissekoldt, and so I tried to save myself on the balcony. I could not get the door to the apartment. There was no one at home, otherwise I was not gone up, he said.
It was residents who called the police because a ‘suspicious man’ prowling around, and he matched signalementet of the casino robber. He was arrested in the balcony with the yield on the.
the Prosecutor said when she requested the 33-year-old in custody, to the people at the casino had been really afraid of the robbery.
I think, said the 33-year-old, who explained that he was not influenced by anything, when he committed the robbery.
the Prosecutor said that the imprisonment among other things, should be used to get a personundersøgelse of the 33-year-old.
It is a study, as Probation making of a sigtets personal circumstances in order to find out what punishment that can be recommended.
But the 33-year-old misunderstood and thought that he should mentalundersøges and said: – I do not fail anything!
After the robbery spoke Ekstra Bladet a few guests, who were present when the robbery took place. They tell that a man, who spoke English, came running in and cried, that there was a robbery.
We sat and played at the casino, when suddenly a man came and shouted, ’this is a robbery’. The man was hætteklædt, had something for the mouth and a bag in her hand. He also had something with, someone said was a gun, but we do not really, said the 26-year-old Christopher Crane.
A taxi driver told me that a guard and an employee chased the robber up against the Langebro.
– People stormed out of the hotel in order to save themselves, when it happened, but they have returned now, said the taxi driver.
