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Rabat – Two masked individuals robbed yesterday a bank in Tangier, northern Morocco, taking MAD 1.600 million ($173,000) while bank security personnel were unloading the cash from the back of an armored truck.
Local press reports that the perpetrators then fled in the back of a cab waiting across from the crime scene.
The Tanger police are allegedly investigating bank personnel in charge of money transport for possible links with the masked individuals.
Eyewitnesses told the local press that one of the perpetrators got into a physical fight with the bank security detail, before snatching two bags of money and heading to the cab stations meters away from the heist location.
Sources allege that local police questioned a cab driver, but found no connection between him and the robbery, leading the police to conclude that the robbers used fake plates to mislead the investigation.
An eyewitness further confirmed the police’s suspicions, explaining that the passenger door of the taxi used for the robbery had a broken window unlike the cab belonging to the driver brought in for questioning.
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The same eyewitness told local press that the perpetrator was aiming to steal four bags of money, but after confronting security detail only managed to snatch two and flee the crime scene.
The police forces are tightening security measures around the area, pending an ongoing investigation to solve the crime.
The heist comes days after police in Asfi, a port city in western Morocco, arrested a possible suspect in another large-scale robbery involving approximately MAD 200 million ($21.62 million), and a stash of gold from private property.
The main suspect in the Asfi robbery previously worked for the property owner.
