Spectacular robbery on Italian motorway

TT

Published 21.00

 

A CIT in Italy was robbed according to all the rules of the art on Monday morning. Archive photo. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

Around 400,000 euros were stolen when unknown perpetrators robbed a CIT in Italy early on Monday morning.

The thieves stopped all traffic on the motorway near Ortona in the Abruzzo region by blocking it with vehicles and then launched a lightning-fast attack on the CIT.

The robbers also used smoke bombs, scattered nails on the road to puncture tires and shot at the armored transport vehicle.

Using explosives, the car and the safe were opened while the driver and guards were still in the vehicle, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.

Police are searching for the perpetrators, but it is unclear how many people participated in the robbery. No one was reportedly injured, but two people who inhaled smoke from the smoke bombs were treated at the scene.