Larissa: “I was watching their movements,” says the tenant who trapped the burglars in the elevator cutting the power

A tenant of apartment building in proved smarter than the burglars as he kept them trapped in until the police arrived. The incident occurred at dawn on March 24 in an apartment in the district of the Holy Forty Witnesses in Larissa, The apartment tenant, who had also observed “movement” of strangers in the building, heard noises on the 6th floor shortly after 33.00 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. So he went down to the basement of the apartment building where he turned off the power supply in the elevator, resulting in the three perpetrators being trapped inside him. He then went up 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, with the Police appreciating that these are two other accomplices of the arrested, who are being sought. While the three perpetrators remained trapped for a long time, the tenant called EL.AS. With officers from the Department of Direct Action arresting them. The tenant of the apartment house spoke to LIVE NEWS and stressed: “About 03.15 at night, I had returned from an exit and sat at home. I heard a noise in the absolute silence and I realized that thieves broke into the building. They just came in, turned off the lights to be dark and went up to the sixth. I got out of the house and for two and a half hours I watched their movements. I wasn’t scared, I was patient, and I waited for the right time to act. I did what anyone in my position would do.”