A man rescued from the rubble of a collapsed tunnel in Rome has been accused of digging it as part of an elaborate movie-like plot to rob a bank
Local police said on Friday they suspected the man was part of a gang of four who allegedly planned to carry out the heist this weekend, when the Italian capital would be relatively quiet due to the Ferragosto public holiday.The Carabinieri police's press office told CNN that officers arrived at the collapsed tunnel on Thursday, after receiving reports that a man was trapped under the rubble.
Read MoreLawyer Carmine Pascarosa, who is representing the two men arrested in the car, told CNN the pair had been charged with resisting arrest and were not presently under investigation for other crimes. He said the two men denied involvement with the man rescued from the rubble. According to Pascarosa, he two men said they had been passing the area"by chance" when a man asked them for help and took them to a vacant shop that housed the entrance to the tunnel.
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