A heavily armed commando burst into the night from Friday to Saturday in the casino of the city to steal the cash before fleeing. In a panic, fifteen people were slightly injured.
Saturday, February 13 at 2:00, while nearly 700 customers were playing casino «Pasino» at the entrance south of Aix-en-Provence in the Bouches-du-Rhône when armed men entered the establishment and headed finish. They fired with assault rifles Kalashnikov AK47-to conservatory, no injuries bullet before taking off with the recipe for the evening estimated to tens of thousands of euros.
wounded light in panic
Thinking of an attack, clients panicked, creating a stampede.
Hugo, young player this roulette with four friends, testified on the site France Info : “In a split second, there was panic throughout the casino (…) people went under the tables. ” Seeing an individual wearing a black hood, he realizes that this is a criminal operation, “I have told the people who were with me that we were facing a robbery and not an attack. “
on the social network Twitter, the rumor of an attack briefly circulated.
By intervening on site, firefighters found a dozen people injured slightly, because of the crowd movement, and in shock.
The investigation was entrusted to the suppression of banditry brigade of the judicial police.
A casino already target robberies
“Pasino” Aix, considered one of the largest casinos in France, with 300 slot machines, had experienced similar attacks twice in 2011: once in the night of April 17 to 18, in which a sum of 100,000 euros was stolen in minutes by a heavily armed commando.
Then on the night of June 25 to 26, 2011, a second attack by a group of five robbers masked, dressed in fatigues khakis and armed with Kalashnikovs, had one wounded police officers from the LAC called in an attempt to thwart the attack. The attackers managed to escape with the money.
In September 2013, five people belonging to organized crime, had been indicted for participating in two robberies of the “Pasino” Aix and as one who had hit the “Barrier” casino Cassis (Bouches-du-Rhône), in February 2011.
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