A man who was going to a Belgrano bank was surprised this Thursday by
a criminal who wanted to steal his backpack
in which he was carrying
7 million pesos
.
After the struggle and the frustrated assault, part of the bills
flooded the Avenida del Libertador
.
Passersby, shocked by the
rain of pesos
, collaborated to collect the bills and return them.
But apparently
not all
.
It is that time, the man denounces a shortage: he said, when he appeared at the police station, that
one of the occasional assistants kept 70 thousand pesos.
The episode occurred
this Thursday around 12
, in the middle of the hours in which banking entities operate.
A 26-year-old
man
was crossing Libertador to enter the BBVA Francés Bank branch that is almost on the corner with Olazábal.
He carried -always according to his version- a
black backpack with 7 million pesos
to carry out a transaction.
Suddenly, a criminal intercepted him and demanded:
"Give me the backpack."
In the brief struggle,
the bag was opened
and part of the money that was inside fell to the ground.
In the wind,
the bills swirled and scattered across the block
.
The thief would have escaped aboard a motorcycle that was waiting for him, through Libertador in the direction of General Paz and from there to the Province of Buenos Aires.
The pesos scattered on Libertador and Olazábal avenues, after an attempted robbery in Belgrano.
The owner of the backpack - named Juan Cruz S. - then received
the assistance of passers-by
, who ran after the bills and helped him recover the money.
All this was recorded by
a neighbor who recorded the moment
with a cell phone from
a building on the sidewalk opposite
the banknote altercation.
"When they tried to grab him ,
the bag fell
. People began to
collect the money
and returned it to him," said a witness.
Minutes later, the man - who was not injured in the attempted robbery - tried to carry out the banking operation.
But
he noticed that he was missing 70,000 pesos
.
Police sources indicated that the main hypothesis is that
one of the spontaneous collaborators kept that amount.
The District Prosecutor's Office for the Saavedra and Núñez neighborhoods intervenes, in charge of
José María Campagnoli
.
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The episode, just after the attempted robbery, went viral on social networks due to a video shared by a neighbor.
From the top of the balcony,
the woman recounts the desperation of the passers-by.
"This
is bullshit
, instead of helping the kid
he starts collecting
," the neighbor is heard saying.
Meters below, a dozen passers-by run for tickets and some
even throw themselves headlong
onto the asphalt.
More than fifteen people
were part of the ticket collection operation.
Almost a dozen raised the money on the sidewalk.
Others, on the avenue, were chasing
what looked like confetti from above.
A motorcyclist parked
and, without removing his helmet or taking his eyes off his vehicle, began to collect the money.
Others went into the middle of the avenue, chasing the tickets.
The same thing happened towards the cross street to the corner at that time busy.
A man dressed in brown, helmet on his arm,
scrambled down
the sidewalk as a handful of people rushed across Olazábal to help.
Among all of them, the
alleged suspect of 70 thousand pesos.
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