Larisa: He cut off the power and trapped the aspiring thieves in an elevator

Scenes of infinite beauty in an apartment building in , with three would-be thieves trapped in . When they came out, they fell into the hands of police officers… There is no precedent for what happened in an apartment building in Larissa. With the perpetrators entering from the roof, trying to breach the apartment front door on the 6th floor and eventually being locked in an elevator. They called their accomplices, but they weren’t released before the police arrived. Behind what happened, a tenant of the apartment building who heard noises and mobilized rapidly. His plan, by the end of the day, is considered a complete success. The would-be thieves stayed locked in the elevator for about 2.5 hours. All happened at dawn on March 24 in an apartment building, in the district of the Holy Forty Witnesses in Larissa. The apartment tenant, who had also observed “movement” of unknowns in the building, heard noises on the 6th floor shortly after 03:00 the morning before and thus estimated that they were burglars who came down using the elevator, as he knew that the 6th floor residents were absent from their home. Thus he descended according to the newspaper “Freedom” in the basement of the apartment building where he turned off the power supply to the elevator resulting in the three perpetrators being trapped inside. The tenant then ascended to the 2nd floor where he heard the trapped in the elevator talking, while at the same time he perceived reopening the entrance of the apartment building. Putting the voices the strangers fled, with the police appreciating that they were two other accomplices of the arrested who are being sought. The three perpetrators remained trapped for a while. The tenant called EL.A. with officers from the Department of Direct Action finding that the roof door of the apartment building brought traces of a metal cutter breach as opposed to the 6th floor apartment where it was found not to have been breached. In the presence of other police officers, at 05:45 a.m. the tenant reopened the elevator, with the three perpetrators coming down to the ground floor and opening the door being arrested. According to onlarissa.gr, the three arrested, 31, 38 and 47 years old according to the Larisa Department of Security’s investigation are known by the prosecution authorities from earlier thefts to homes using the method of demolition into terraces, having earlier gained access to the terraces.