(ANSA) - VENICE, AUGUST 20 - Four old safes, corroded by water and rust, were discovered abandoned on the dry bottom of the Padua-Venice waterway (never completed), in the territory of Vigonovo (Venice).
According to the first hypothesis, they could be the coffers that the gang of Felice Maniero had unraveled after the robberies, who in an area not far away, on the Brenta, also made the used cars for criminal raids disappear;
cars some of which had been fished out with their bodies riddled with firearms.
Given the state of encrustation - 'IlGazzettino' reports today - the old coffers could have been thrown into the artificial river even more than 30 years ago, when the Band of the Riviera del Brenta raged in Veneto, with clamoroserapine and firefights.
The discovery of the armored cabinets was made possible by the drought, which uncovered part of the bottom of the waterway.
Reported it was a fisherman from the area.
Given the difficulty of the operation, the four safes have not yet been recovered.
Some show signs of forcing, probably performed with a blowtorch or flexible flame.
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