Bank robbery with hostage drama in downtown Athens

More than a dozen people were held hostage yesterday during a bank robbery at the Piraeus Bank branch at Ambelokipi, which saw a gang of four masked men walk away with 60,000 euros in cash in the roughly two hours they spent in the bank. Eight bank employees and five customers were amongst the hostages during the two hour siege.

The robbers took cash from the cashier registers on the main floor and then forced bank staff to take them to the bank’s vault in the basement, where they opened it using drills and removed the content from 21 deposit boxes.

Police investigating CCTV footage claim the robbers left the bank at 4pm, and appear to have thrown disinfectant liquid behind them in an attempt to eliminate genetic material and other traces.

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