Thieves with plastic sword steal €25,000 from Limassol bank

A PLASTIC SWORD, a plastic bag and two pantyhose were the tools used by a pair of criminals to rob a Hellenic Bank branch in Limassol of €25,000 yesterday.

At around 10.20am the two villains entered the bank on Frank Roosevelt Avenue,  and after putting pantyhose on their heads, one pulled out a plastic sword and the other a plastic bag.

According to reports the man holding the plastic bag was holding it in such a way as if he was concealing a weapon.

Speaking in broken Greek the pair then threatened the seven staff members and four customers in the bank,  forcing the employees to give them money from three separate tills.

After taking the money the pair fled through the back door into a white van parked 200 metres behind the branch and sped off.

Police, on arriving at the scene closed off the surrounding area and started their investigations to locate and arrest the pair.

According to witnesses and closed-circuit television images which caught the robbers as they entered the bank, the police are looking for two perpetrators of Middle Eastern descent. One is described as being about 1.85m in height, well built and was wearing jeans with a white shirt. The other man is about 1.75m tall, with a small physique and was wearing jeans with a black shirt.

It’s the second time that the particular branch was robbed in strange circumstances. In February two criminals who had their faces covered with carnival masks and their heads covered with colourful wigs robbed the same bank, taking close to €70,000.

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