The employees of a metal refinery company, located in the Colombia neighborhood, in Medellín, They got a big scare this Friday morning, when armed men entered the place, threatened them and they tried to take a safe in which some unprocessed silver sheets were kept.
In the establishment, which is not open to the public, managed to alert the authorities, which put pressure on the thieves, who had to flee the place without the safe.
Subsequently, the Police made a lockdown plan and closed several roads in the surrounding sectors, forcing the criminals to abandon even the car in which they were traveling, They left him in the Belén Rosales sector.
Right now, the authorities analyze the videos of public and private security cameras to identify those responsible of this attempted robbery and the victims will make the respective reports of the case to advance with the investigations, according to Colonel José Galindo, operational commander of the Metropolitan Police.
In addition, criminalistics units are advancing in the fingerprint scans in the safe and other elements that might have been manipulated by the thieves, in search of fingerprints that allow them to be identified. The abandoned vehicle is also subjected to technical analysis.
After the rumor regarding this fact was known, others related to companies that process or market metals were recalled.
One of the most notorious recent robberies in the city was a gold company, on November 4 of last year, in the vicinity of the Monterrey shopping center. While the thieves advanced in their mission -some dressed as traffic guards-, the Metropolitan Police was present at the scene and there was an exchange of shots.
So at least 20 raiders they were hooded, dressed in black and carried long weapons, in order to rob the company dedicated to the foundry, from where They removed 3,148 grams of unpurified gold, worth $550 million; a shotgun, another radio and a bulletproof vest, for an appraisal close to $565 million.
Shortly before, on July 26 of that same year, in the Los Balsos No. 2 neighborhood, there was also another gold theft. The thieves broke into the Land Green SAS marketer, located in the 17th floor of the Forum building, and they extracted 12 gold bars one kilo each, valued at $2.4 billion; $400 million in cash and jewelry, cell phones, a revolver, a radio and two laptops, for an estimated total of $2.85 billion.