Wednesday, January 4, 2023 | 5:30 p.m.
The two brothers arrested yesterday afternoon on suspicion of having participated in the armed assault committed in front of the Banco Nación in Monte Carlo, have been released in the last few hours. It was learned from judicial sources that the paraffin test to detect traces of gunpowder on his hands was negative.
The result of this expertise was practically enough to exclude them from the investigations because the assailants who approached the employee of the service station who was carrying the money to deposit in the bank, in the escape fired at least four shots from a handgun. fire, one of them hitting the victim’s foot.
In any case, the men -33 and 44 years old- will be accused in a case that has to do with the illegal possession of the firearm (22 caliber) that they had in their possession when they were intercepted.
With these releases, the investigation for the millionaire assault is at the starting point, which is why the search operations are maintained in the north of the province.
Violence in front of the Bank
The employee of the Shell service station in Monte Carlo was hospitalized yesterday midday after receiving a bullet in one of his feet in the middle of an assault that he suffered meters from Banco Nación, an entity located in the heart of the city and to which he was going to make the collection deposit.
The criminals, who were two and one of them would have acted barefaced, escaped from the scene with a box full of cash and at this time they are being sought by the security forces.
Police sources reported that the attack occurred around 11 in the morning and the employee was intercepted by criminals a few meters from the vehicle from which he descended, on Herm street. The circumstantial witnesses heard at least four shots from a firearm, apparently to cover the escape, one of which hit the victim who was initially treated at the scene and later transferred to the hospital.
The assailants, according to the information provided by some people, escaped running towards Paraguay street, for which reason troops from different police units began an extensive operation in the area and managed to find the clothes they were wearing near a stream in the Martín neighborhood. Fierro, not far from the bank. In that same neighborhood they arrested the now released brothers.
The injured employee said that the criminals had a local accent and although they have not yet been identified, the Police computer experts reviewed security cameras of the official entity and neighboring properties.
They do not rule out that there has been prior intelligence to know in detail the times and movements in which the victim makes bank deposits. They assume that they had the support of a vehicle.
Although it was not confirmed, it is presumed that the criminals made off with $5 million.
