Four men armed with Kalashnikov burst in the night from Friday to Saturday at the casino of Aix-en-Provence, creating panic among the 700 guests present -including fifteen were injured légèrement- before taking the fleeing with the cash, tens of thousands of euros.
“Four people dressed in white coveralls entered the Pasino and people were waiting outside,” said AFP CEO of Groupe Partouche, Fabrice Paire.
Around 2:00, while the “Pasino”, at the southern entrance of the city, was in full swing with 700 customers present, armed men entered the establishment and are directed to be the fund, after controlling the casino security system. They shot twice with AK47 rifles (Kalashnikov) to a canopy no injuries. “It was intimidating shots,” said a police source.
In a panic, fifteen people were injured or slightly shocked, according to firefighters who intervened then. “These are very minor injuries or superficial,” he told AFP a spokesman for firefighters Bouches-du-Rhône.
“There was a moment of panic, no one knew not that we had to do, “testified on France Info, Hugo, customer Pasino. Seeing “a person dressed all in white with a black hood, I realized that we were facing a turning not to attack,” he said, adding that “there were more wounded compared to the panic it created as criminals themselves who fired in the air. ”
– “No response time” –
Criminals have seized the body and quickly fled aboard a large displacement in which a waiting another man. The car was found burned, do we added police source.
PJ was responsible for the investigation.
According to the police prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, Laurent Nunez, the action of the armed group lasted just minutes . -The Police commissariat of Aix-en-Provence is located about 500 m from our casino, was alerted by personal Pasino who immediately informed that it was a robbery.
Upon arrival patrols, a few minutes later, the attackers were gone. “According to the protocol to use in case of armed robbery, a device was quickly set up around the casino which was surrounded and after a short period of observation, the police entered inside but robbers were gone. There was no response time, “said Mr. Nunez AFP.
“It’s still a robbery,” responded Mr. Pair rated the booty to “a few thousand chips and unusable” because “there is more money in the casinos” . He said he was “satisfied that everything has been implemented” by the staff to ensure the safety “of clients.
After” building number “of agents around the casinos and already set instead, Mr. Paire wants a “new stage” is reached by allowing security companies, “approved by the Ministry of the Interior” to be armed.
“Pasino” Aix had already been the robberies target 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
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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 an attempt to thwart the attack. the police officer was shot in the arm. A booty was also stolen.
Property group Partouche, the Pasino of Aix, which notably has 300 slot machines, is open from fifteen years.
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