It was a “masterstroke”. An individual used a telescopic ladder and entered and exited the hypermarket without leaving a trace.. Took goods worth more than 21 thousand euros.
Equipped with a telescopic ladder, an individual, whose age is unknown, managed to climb the roof of a hypermarket in Beja, the Intermarché, pierced the cover of it, dismantled the false ceiling of a tobacconist, having entered its interior, stealing money, slushies and tobacco, costing more than 21 thousand euros.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), only in scratch cards will cards worth 7.000 euros. In the box, the businessman would have left the trouble of three days, Friday to Sunday, whose deposit would make the next day.
The incident took place on Sunday, day 26 June, cerca the 22,30 hours, hour and a half after the commercial surface was closed to the public. Or individual, who acted with his face uncovered and with gloves, only left the place three hours after having entered, it being expected that the suspect tried to elude the patrols that the PSP makes in the place.
The investigation believes it was a very professional scam. Meticulously thought out and prepared, taking into account the reconstruction that the PSP agents did after seeing the footage from the cameras of the surrounding buildings. The man left the car about 500 metros do local, went behind the walls of the commercial surface, up to go up and then down from the roof, without trace.
The works that took place on the hyper 2/3 months suggest that the individual may have been there to work or have an accomplice who “made the map” of the space.. Your knowledge of steps to take on the roof, the place where the tobacconist was located and the roof of the same, was such that his movements inside the place where he committed the theft, were not detected by the camcorders, not having the alarms go off.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
