Crooks try to tunnel to Belfiusbank to dig, frustrated neighbor puts out unconsciously stick to plans

Brussels Crooks last weekend tried to make with a drill a tunnel to a subsidiary of Belfius in the Brussels municipality of Oudergem. A complaint from a neighbour because of noise threw, however, a spanner in the works. The defendants are without a trace, reports La Capitale.

In the house next to the bank in the Saint-Juliaanskerklaan are already almost a year, major renovation work on the corridor. “For nine months, from Monday to Friday, worked on the construction of five apartments,” says neighbor Pascal P. that the intrusion attempt, unconsciously, to the light brought. “We are tired of. The walls of our home are cracked and sometimes we can not talk to each other through the noise.” the

Last Sunday, enough was enough for the man. When he in the morning between 9 and 10 hours the sound of the jackhammer heard, he went to knock on the house next to the bank. “I thought to myself: this is really not possible. I cried that it was forbidden on Sunday to work and asked them to open the door. ‘Yes, sir’, answered someone in French with a Polish accent and the noise stopped immediately.”

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Because the door is closed, continued, decided the moegetergde neighbor still has to call the police to the disturbance to establish. “The police said that they have other urgent calls had, but ten minutes later, there was a patrol on the spot.” Officers could by the renovation work the house through the back easy to enter and discovered the excavation, and the beginning of the tunnel. the

The suspects, who are believed to be the same way in the yard were hit, were already fled. In the wall of the house was drilled a hole; the wall of the bank had already proved to a depth of 35 inches cracked open.

Police Marlow (Uccle, Auderghem and Watermael-Boitsfort) confirms in La Capitale, the attempted bank robbery, but wish to continue not to respond. According to the French newspaper, there is an investigation started, but there are still no suspects being questioned. The thieves were probably from the atms and/or the vaults of the bank.