PARIS (Reuters) - Would-be robbers armed with a pneumatic cavalcade dug a hovel from a Paris transport hire in to the groundwork of a bank in the early hours of Sunday but unsuccessful to seize any money or valuables, military said.
The attempted spoliation of BNP Paribas is the third time this year supposed "termite gangs" have attempted to rob a bank by digging a hovel in to the building.
It is not well known either the 3 incidents are related.
The squad dug in to the bank"s basement, presumably around the sewage system. They unsuccessful to come in the reserve deposition room and zero was taken, a BNP mouthpiece said.
They aborted the try and proposed a glow to cover their tracks, that set off alarms and alerted police. Digging equipment, together with a pneumatic drill, was found at the scene.
"The people left the premises prior to they could reach the reserve deposition room of the bank," Paris military domicile pronounced in a statement.
Last weekend, a Credit Lyonnais bend in Paris was damaged in to by tunnel-digging robbers who burst roughly 200 in isolation safes, according to police. A bend of Caisse d"Epargne in a Paris suburb was attacked at New Year in a identical fashion.
French media have compared the cases to the "Spaggiari Affair," a heist masterminded by Albert Spaggiari some-more than thirty years ago in Nice.
Then, a squad tunneled in to the safe of a bend of Societe Generale during a open holiday, outlayed dual days and dual nights there and done off with about twenty-four million euros ($32 million) value of money and valuables. The heist spawned multiform books and movies.
(Reporting by Nicolas Bertin and Thierry Leveque; Writing by Sophie Taylor; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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