With special attention, the authorities in Ilia are examining the videos from the security cameras they have collected, in an attempt to get closer to the traces of the perpetrators who blew up the ATM of the National Bank, located in a supermarket in central point of Andravida.

The three perpetrators who arrived in Andravida at around 3:15 in the morning in a white SUV that may have been stolen, it seems that they had… studied their plan well as at that time there was no one on the streets of the city who could spoil them their plan.

The perpetrators, who had their facial features covered, with the help of the stolen car, broke down the main door of the store, then entered and placed an explosive device in the ATM, but they did not manage to open the cash box and then with the help of a wheel they tried to cut the ATM.

The three men then headed to a rural area in Traganos, about a kilometer and a half away from the scene of the attack where they abandoned the white SUV, setting it on fire to destroy all traces of them.

The perpetrators seem to have been…professionals since they had even erased the chassis number of the stolen jeep they used to make it more difficult for the police to track them down.

According to police sources, on the Pyrgou-Patron highway, two of their accomplices were still waiting in a second vehicle where the other three got in and disappeared in an unknown direction.

However, their method of action is impressive as it has many similarities with that of the ATM perpetrators who withdrew 243,000 euros from an ATM in Petalidi, in neighboring Messinia, early last Wednesday. Authorities are investigating the possibility that the two cases may be connected.