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Two hours of tension in a building five blocks from Plaza de Mayo, after a neighbor was taken hostage

2020-10-22T17:55:44.320Z


They went to rob the 5th floor of Peru at 600. After a 911 alert, 3 of the thieves took a woman from the 1st floor and hid in her apartment.


10/22/2020 2:28 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Police

Updated 10/22/2020 2:28 PM

Two hours of tension were experienced this Thursday in a building in Peru at 600, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat, when

four robbers dressed as police

assaulted a neighbor.

Someone heard the screams and called 911. While trying to escape, the criminals held

a woman hostage

until they surrendered.

Police sources informed

Clarín

that the four thieves had the information that on the 5th floor of the Peru 610 building, on the corner of México, a Cuban citizen had

savings in dollars

.

Dressed as policemen, the four robbers entered the building and went up to the 5th floor.

There, they reduced their victim but the man

with his screams alerted the neighbors

who called 911.

This is how the detainees in Peru were taken to 600. Photo: Lucia Merle.

Immediately he arrived at the City Police building.

Given this, the thieves took off police clothes and

tried to escape

, camouflaged as neighbors.

One was caught at the door.

“They asked him what he was doing there, he said he had visited his girlfriend and when they asked him for her name he

hesitated

.

For which he was detained ”, indicated the sources.

The other three thieves were found locked in an apartment on the 1st floor: the lock

had the key on

and no one answered, not even phone calls.


Those arrested after the robbery and hostage-taking in a building in Peru at 600.

He had

taken a woman

 in her 60s

hostage

, who was beaten.

Given this, they called a special group of the DOEM City Police that negotiated with the criminals.

After half an hour of negotiation, the three criminals

surrendered

and the woman was rescued and treated by SAME.

News in development

AFG

Source: clarin

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