Infamous 1992 riff-raff on Gallirois Street due to road surface damage – Newsbomb – News

The asphalt pavement was completed – workshops from the Attica region rushed to the scene from the first moment.

Indeed Earth was opened in the middle lane of the road surface of Gallirois StreetIn development towards the Kallimarmaro Stadium in Athens, thus Severe traffic problems in the area.

From the first moment, the team from Attica and EYDAP region rushed to the scene, to determine the causes of the collapse, they were surprised to see the hole caused by the infamous rififi that took place in it. Period… 31 years ago! As soon as the problem was discovered last night, it was immediately mobilized from the Attica area.

The Groups of the region were discovered from the first moment, work on the site and throughout the night, to implement the closure of the hole and early in the morning, to implement the asphalt pavement again. We remind you that in the distant December 1992, on Christmas Day, employees of the Labor Bank working at the branch at 19 Gallirois Street (where Eurobank operates today) discovered that unknown persons had broken into the vault in the financial institution. There were customer boxes.

Out of 1,151 counters, 301 counters were opened Their valuables were stolen. According to calculations, the value of the stolen goods reached 5 billion drachmas. In order to reach the basement with the doors, the criminals opened a tunnel starting from the bed of the river Ilissos, which runs under Gallirois Street. About 25 meters long, this burial ground was built so sophisticatedly that the underground track was even laid with rails, so that no one knew what was going on, and the wagons that carried the excavated rubble moved by.

yes, It is speculated that the excavation could take months. On the weekend of 19-20 December 1992, when the criminals entered the bank, the alarm went off, but the security officials did not see anything suspicious or any movement on the ground floor of the bank. So they didn't pay attention. The case remains unsolved till date.

Paradoxical as it may seem, it was this famous riff-raff of 1992… that Galleroin had fallen to this particular point, according to the region's competent services, after years of no intervention. Built to strengthen the road surface, 31 years later, the earth tore in two.