In order to reach the basement with the doors, the perpetrators had opened a tunnel that started from the bed of the Ilisos river, which passes under Kallirois street
Literally the earth opened in its middle lane road surface of Kallirois Street, upstream to the Kallimarmaro Stadium in Athens, causing severe traffic problems in the area.
Crews from the Region of Attica and EYDAP rushed to the scene from the first moment order to determine the causes of the subsidence and they were surprised to find that the hole that was created was due to the infamous rififi that had taken place at that particular spot… 31 whole years ago!
Since last night when the problem was discovered, the mobilization from the Region of Attica was immediate. The Region’s crews were, from the first moment, on the scene and worked throughout the night, in order to close the hole and re-pave the asphalt early in the morning.
It is reminded that in the distant December 1992, on the eve of Christmas, the employees of the Labor Bank who worked at the branch at 19 Kallirois Street (today Eurobank operates there), they found that unknown persons had breached the armored vault where the financial institution’s customer lockers were located.
Of the 1,151 safes, 301 had been opened with their valuable contents stolen. According to calculations, the value of the stolen goods reached 5 billion drachmas.
The perpetrators, in order to reach the basement with the doors, had opened a tunnel that started from the bed of the river Ilisos, which passes under Kallirois Street. The burrow was about 25 meters long and was masterfully constructed since even rails were placed in this underground route on which a wagon moved that took out the digging rubble, without anyone realizing what was happening.
Yes, the digging is speculated to have taken even months. It is worth mentioning the fact that when the perpetrators entered the bank, sometime during the weekend of December 19-20, 1992, the alarm went off but the security officials did not see anything suspicious or any movement on the ground floor of the bank, so they did not pay attention. The case remains unsolved to this day.
As paradoxical as it sounds, it was this famous rififi of 1992 that… is responsible for the subsidence at this particular point of Kalliroias according to the competent services of the Region, for so many years no intervention at all had been made to strengthen the road surface, resulting in 31 years later, the earth being torn in… two.
Article photo: File
Source: Skai
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