Million-euro heist in Crete
Police launched a manhunt on Crete yesterday after armed robbers held up an armored truck and made off with an estimated 1.25 million euros in one of the biggest heists of its type to take place in Greece. The truck had been transporting cash on behalf of ATEbank to fill cash machines at various branches around the island. It was stopped at 1 p.m. in the area of Anogeia near Rethymnon. The driver and a guard aboard the truck said that a car pulled in front of them and a man smashed the truck’s windscreen with a sledgehammer while other robbers shot at the vehicle. One of the attackers made it into the truck and drove it some 10 kilometers before forcing the driver and guard out. After a spate of armored truck robberies around Greece recently, police chiefs had asked banks not to transport large amounts of cash.
