A group of robbers dug their way into to basement of a bank in Paris and emptied almost 200 private safes. They entered the Credit Lyonnais branch using building ____ (equip) to dig holes and destroy walls ____ Saturday night. They tied up a security guard and spent the next nine hours____ (rob) the bank.
One investigator described the robbery___ a “professional job”. The robbers came in at about 22:00 on Saturday and ___ (leave) at 7:00 on Sunday. They entered through the basements of the neighboring building, digging through a series of tunnels and making a hole into a wall of 80cm thick to get into the bank, ____ was having building works at the time.
When they left, the robbers set the place on fire to remove any trace of evidence, ____ (switch) on the anti-fire system and flooding the building. ____ (fortune), the guard escaped unharmed. ___ is difficult to estimate the total value of what ___ (steal) as only the bank’s clients know the content of their private safes.