The National Police have arrested a man for allegedly robbing two banks in Madrid by pretending to have explosives under his jacket to threaten the employees and get them to hand over the money.
He committed two robberies in just three days and was arrested when he was trying to carry out a third, the Madrid Police Headquarters has reported.
The investigation began on May 13, the date of the first robbery. The man, 52 years old and of Spanish nationality, entered a bank branch located in the Madrid district of Salamanca and gave the employees a handwritten note.
In it he assured them that he had explosives under his jacket and ordered them to give them a certain amount of 50 euro bills, to which, given the potential threat, they agreed.
“Don’t worry, this is a robbery. Give me 2,000 euros in 50 bills. I have explosives under my jacket,” said one of the several notes that she used in one of the robberies.
Three days later he accessed another branch in the same district and repeated the procedure, this time without success, so he quickly fled.
Once identified, the investigators established a search device that culminated last Friday, when they located him as he was leaving a third bank where he could not rob either because the till was closed.
When they searched him, the agents found inside one of his pockets a handwritten note identical to the one he had used in previous robberies and several 50-euro bills.
For all this, he was arrested and placed at the disposal of the judicial authority as the alleged perpetrator of two crimes of robbery with intimidation.
