14 DAY TRIAL // Talk about running out of luck! A thief, whose "honest" intentions were aiming at nothing more than getting into a large bank's safe, ended up by drilling a whole tunnel through a giant concrete wall only to find himself in the lavatory of the institution, where guards did what they were paid for and arrested him. The news, which broke in France on Sunday, made people laugh rather than be concerned, especially after the newspaper that covered it described what happened in detail.
The burglar, no older than 21, apparently broke into an adjacent building, next to the Banque Populaire, in the French city of Marseilles, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. There, he carefully set up his operation, starting Saturday morning. He brought along everything he might have needed for such an operation, including drills and other digging tools. Then, he closely calculated the angles he needed to bore under so that the makeshift tunnel would end into the bank's safe deposit boxes.
But, apparently, his calculations didn't match the exact blueprints of the nearby building, so, at the end of the tunnel, only a handful of toilets were idly waiting for him. The bad thing about drilling into a bank's lavatory is that it usually comes fully equipped with all sorts of sensors, including motion detectors. So, upon emergence from his hole, the young man found himself promptly surrounded by security personnel, who had been most likely alerted by silent alarms in the room.
The police has yet to release the name of the suspect, but the La Provence newspaper has announced that the man was from Belgium, although no other pieces of information about him are officially available at this point. However, his deed has stirred a lot of comments from the population, which has been surprised by the thorough lack of luck the criminal had. It's not everyday that bank robbers make such a stupid and utterly funny mistake, and this is a happening that the people of Marseilles will most certainly not soon forget.