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A person rescued from the rubble of a collapsed tunnel in Rome has been accused of digging it as a part of an elaborate movie-like plot to rob a financial institution.
Local police mentioned on Friday they suspected the person was a part of a gang of 4 who allegedly deliberate to hold out the heist this weekend, when the Italian capital can be comparatively quiet because of the Ferragosto public vacation.
The Carabinieri police’s press workplace advised CNN that officers arrived on the collapsed tunnel on Thursday, after receiving stories {that a} man was trapped beneath the rubble.
Soon after they arrived they arrested two folks suspected of making an attempt to flee the world by automobile and, individually, a fourth man.
Rescuers spent eight hours liberating the trapped man, who stays beneath medical statement within the San Camillo hospital in Rome.
Lawyer Carmine Pascarosa, who’s representing the 2 males arrested within the automobile, advised CNN the pair had been charged with resisting arrest and weren’t presently beneath investigation for different crimes.
He mentioned the 2 males denied involvement with the person rescued from the rubble. According to Pascarosa, he two males mentioned they’d been passing the world “by chance” when a person requested them for assist and took them to a vacant store that housed the doorway to the tunnel.
Once they realized what had occurred, they known as rescuers earlier than leaving the scene, he added.
Pascarosa confirmed {that a} fourth particular person is being investigated and has been charged alongside the injured man in relation to the collapse of the tunnel.