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He guarded an armored truck, stole it, lived like a millionaire and ended up as a porn actor

2023-01-14T20:15:03.927Z


Dioni Rodríguez became the hero of many Spaniards for stealing the loot in Madrid to take revenge on his boss.


A popular hero is not always someone who does what is politically correct, they are often the opposite face of the system.

Dionisio Rodríguez Martín

became an iconic character for Spanish society when, in 1989,

he robbed an armored truck loaded with 300 million pesetas (2 million dollars)

without firing a shot. 

Dioni, as he called himself by his friends, was a security guard and after a problem with his boss he began to plan the coup.

When he got hold of the money, he fled to

Brazil 

where he lived the life of a Rockstar for almost two months until the Police tracked him down.

Today the whereabouts of part of the loot, of which only 175 million pesetas were recovered, remains a mystery.

In 1995, Dioni regained his freedom and in the years that followed he became a kind of idol for the people.

Even

Joaquín Sabina

dedicated a song "Con un par" to him, on the album White Lies, 1990).

In those years he became a recurring character on television shows, he also participated in adult cinema.

A whole character.

Local newspaper reporting on the robbery of the armored car

From vigilante to thief

Dionisio Rodríguez Martín was born on October 31, 1949 in

Madrid

,

Spain.

He studied at the Santa Ana and San Rafael school in Madrid, and began his working life at the age of 14.

He started working at the surveillance company Candi SA, eventually getting the position of bodyguard.

At the beginning of 1989, the man continued his work at the security company, but his boss had demoted him from bodyguard to security guard.

This provoked the wrath of Dionisio and he decided to plan the great coup in Spanish history.

"It offended me because I went from wearing a suit and tie and earning 1,500 euros, to dressing as a 'Roman' and receiving 450 euros," Dioni confessed a few years later in a television interview with

Cadena Ser

.

On July 28, 1989, Dioni disappeared from the map.

He took advantage of the absence of his two companions to get behind the wheel of an armored truck and took it to his car, where he placed all the money that was inside it and left quickly.

In his flight, Dioni assured in innumerable interviews that he gave part of the money (of which he says he has never heard from) to three friends and later traveled to Brazil, where he lived the life of a true millionaire.

Cocktails of alcohol, drugs and women were recurring in the hotel where she stayed for almost two months.

Until September 19, 1989, he was arrested.

Dionisio Rodriguez was imprisoned for almost a year in a Brazilian prison, before being extradited to his country of origin.

Dioni participated in the film Torrente 4.

He began his media career

Already extradited to 

Spain

, he served three years of sentence.

In 1995 he was paroled and started working.

The man took advantage of the media fame he had and opened some bars in Madrid.

On one occasion, he even printed 10,000 pesetas bills with his face to promote the opening of one of his stores, which earned him a charge of counterfeiting money that was dismissed.

In addition,

Joaquín Sabina

composed a song for him, entitled: "With a couple for obvious reasons", where he tells the story of the robbery and especially the later life of El Dioni as a millionaire, from the point of view of the great musician.

Image of Dioni walking through the streets of Madrid.

At the beginning of the millennium, the good acceptance towards him made him become one of the recurring faces of Spanish television.

Interviews, reality shows and he even worked as an actor. But to finish confirming that he was a true rockstar, he became

a porn actor

.

In May 2014 he began his career in adult cinema with the director and also an actor Torbe.

Today, already retired from all those things, he leads a normal life, he is a grandfather and a great-grandfather.

Dioni, 73 years old, enjoys life with other married couples and family friends.

He considers himself a normal, respectful and hard-working man.

Behind him were his years of excess and lust.

He currently lives on his 830-euro pension like any other Spanish retiree, and when the odd curious person asks him about the robbery, he has no problem telling the details and affirming that he would do it again "but better."

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Source: clarin

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