Frustrated movie heist leaves two dead at Santiago de Chile airport

A scene from every good movie scenario took place this Wednesday at Santiago de Chile airport. A command made up of a dozen criminals, armed to the teeth and professionally trained, tried to rob more than 32 million dollars and clashed in a shootout with the police in the middle of the runway. In the failed robbery, two people died, the alleged thief and an official of the General Administration for Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), in charge of the security of the complex.

The episode happened around eight o’clock in the morning, when the attackers arrived in three vans to the W sector of the airport and broke down the doors.

According to the director of the said institution, General Raúl Jorquera, the twelve men “managed to cross the first line, but not the second, which is decisive” within the framework of a well-defined plan with which they intended to embezzle money, reports Efe.

Delinquents penetrated the perimeter of the slopes and they handcuffed the security guard who was at that place who, however, “managed to get out and inform the other access control, who confronted the criminals who were determined and with firepower to carry out the robbery.

“They managed to cross the first line, but not the second, which is decisive (…) They entered there, but there was also an alarm,” said Jorquera, who denied that there were any security breaches make the airport unsafe, but admitted that “procedures have to be reviewed, of course they have to, and that’s self-criticism.”

Despite the warning, the thieves managed to get close to the armored truck that loaded millions of remittances that arrived from Latam aircraft from Miamiwhen the shooting began, in which one of the alleged attackers and firefighter Claudio Villar Rodríguez, who participated in the armed confrontation, died.

“I want to show solidarity and send a big hug to the family of the DGAC official,” said the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, during a speech at the Women’s Day commemoration. “We know that insecurity is a priority for Chilean men and women. When there is uncertainty, everyone else stumbles,” he added.

The criminals fled several cars burned on the road that connects the airport with Santiago.

If not prevented, this It would be the biggest robbery in Chilefar surpassing the one that managed to get $7.9 million in 2014 and the one that grabbed another $21 million in 2017, both at the same airport.