MILAN - Seven men have been arrested in connection to the theft of a million euros from a branch of Credit Agricole in Milan’s Piazza Ascoli on November 3.

  The group were arrested by the Police’s flying squad, led by Marco Calì, just as they were preparing for another bank heist somewhere between Milan and Turin. The arrest of the seven Neapolitans has come after a long investigation taking place since last November, when they had evaded the police through the sewers.

  On November 3, the group, some in masks, entered the branch at 8:35 a.m., five minutes after it had opened to the public. They came in through a “hole in the floor” according to the bank’s manager, 48, who had also had a fight with one of the robbers, before being hit in the back of the head with the butt of a gun. They had then forced the bank staff to open several safety deposit boxes, and had no idea of the value at the time.

  The band of robbers had entered and left the bank via sewers, according to investigation sources, which they had entered via a hole dug into the floor in a nearby building. The police, arriving on the scene, attempted to chase them down the sewers but they had disappeared, only staying in the bank for a few minutes. 

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