They take pictures: How 17 years later were discovered bank robbers in Greece 53-year-old is a Kosovar

A DNA found the author of a bank robbery in Kifisia, the district of the Greek capital, Athens 17 years later.

The owner of the robbery, such as in the Hollywood movies, with more than 4m euros in cash, is a 53-year-old Kosovo.

A bank branch was looted in 2008 by digging a hole in the wall, otherwise known as the method Riffi?A reference from French film with the same name.

As Greek portal writes today  The TouchThe thief is a 53-year-old Kosovo with an international resume currently located at a detention centre in France.

The genetic material that led to his identification was found at the site of the theft, but until now it was not “in the face of” with no DNA from the Greek Police database. In fact, as agreed, the same author had attempted another bank robbery on New Year's Eve 2009, but without success.

Following a request by the Greek FBI last December, biological material was re-established in the European police database, and by comparison it proved to belong to 53-year-old, from which French authorities had recently obtained a DNA sample.

The process of comparing DNA that requires time and that was previously carried out with specific requests is now carried out automatically through the common EUROPOL database.

As learned, the 53-year-old is being held at a detention centre in France, accused of theft, while in search of similar acts in Germany and Kosovo.

Kosovar, with unknown collaborators, had entered the Kifissia bank, digging a hole in the wall. The attack occurred during Orthodox holidays in Greece in April 2008.

According to police investigations, the authors had entered from the basement of the bank branch, opening a hole in the wall measuring 0.4 x 0.5m.

Once they entered and located the central vault, they broke it and took monetary means in many of the 364,100 euros.

Then they broke 66 other vaults, which had jewelry, money, gold coins, and valuables worth over 4,000,000 euros.

Before they escaped, they were assured to eliminate the DVR camera system.

DNA connects 53-year-old Kosovar to two other cases that have troubled Greek authorities. On the night of the 2009 shift, the man from Kosovo and his associates had tried to get back into a bank, this time at the location of Agia Parascev, but without success.

A year later, in November 2010, together with strangers, he had played another theft, like in movies, in the country called Nea Kedonija, again in Greece.

They had entered a subsidiary of a large chain of supermarkets, had received an additional 29.140 euros from the vault, and had later obtained another 20,000 euros from an ATM in the store.