Rapina Banca Napoli, gli ostaggi: "Chiusi in una stanza, mancava ossigeno"

Naples Bank Robbery, Hostages: "Locked in a Room, There Was No Oxygen" "The Moment of Release Was the Most Reassuring" News (Naples). Two of the hostages involved in yesterday's robbery at the Crédit Agricole branch in Vomero are recounting their experience 24 hours later. A father and his daughter, Pasquale and Ludovica Antino, describe the fear they felt when the three robbers locked them in a room. "We immediately realized their intention was to hold us hostage," they explain. "They didn't directly target the boxes containing our personal belongings, but the tension was extremely high. The robbers were wearing masks depicting famous actors, a detail that contributed to the surreal nature of the situation." The two hostages recount that at one point the place was so crowded that it was difficult to breathe, and that only the moment of release brought relief. "The most reassuring thing was hearing the voices of the Carabinieri alerting us of our liberation, after about half an hour of terror," they explain, visibly shaken. (Raffaele Accetta/alanews) Automatically generated transcript I'll say hello very quickly, and above all, we immediately realized the situation because they came from behind. We don't know where they entered, and right away, let's say, they made it clear what their intentions were, that is, hostages. It's not that they were freed, and obviously that was the moment when we breathed a sigh of relief because they banged on the window, period, with this metal pole and the Fire Brigade later. And anyway, we had already logged in with the negotiator, making him understand that, in any case, I was starting to run out of oxygen inside the room. There were 30 of us, the room was 10 square meters, so it wasn't airy. It was very hot, and some people started to feel sick, so this gust of air came in, and for a moment it took everyone. So, some of them also had colored overalls and they had these shoes with these prints on them, some had these red actors, movie actors, we distinguished the Rock and then other masks. We didn't focus on them because, let's say, they were taken by the moment I didn't faint. Not if I didn't feel sick. There were more than two ladies who had no heart problems as far as I understood it's another one Anyway she came had a panic attack but my sister and I were perfectly Let's say healthy In addition to the bread for the first visual contact with the police who didn't give the window after about twenty minutes that we were in the room maybe a half hour left I started to talk when the policewoman outside the blacked out window and we had already made her understand how many of us were how many hostages there were and where more or less I think they were robbers how many they even studied at Credit Agricol one day room is a little better they were clearly moments that no one should experience Also because they happen only once in a lifetime we were immediately blocked in the box where we were talking to our consultant about ten minutes before I took upstairs and then a small room they closed us with the other customers and employees of the bank so there were about 25 of us a really tiny room on the ground floor facing the street let's say start Tony Gentiles Then after they intimidated us a little before they locked us in and they left we are there I immediately realized what was happening and that it wasn't the typical normal robbery. I mean, I put my hands in the cash registers and I practically walked out. I understood that I was looking for someone else right away. We understood why they didn't go towards the cash registers clearly. So I was thinking of something else. I was thinking of putting us there. They took us upstairs first, you could see that they had other ideas in mind and so they took us down. I spent about twenty minutes and the Carabinieri already arrived and in the end we stopped hearing noises and I think that from there, already around half past twelve, there was already a nation that more than ever since the Carabinieri arrived, the police and at that moment Tony got up. They clearly intimidated us. I think one of them showed the gun and started saying: be good, don't move, don't do it, don't say anything because otherwise we'll resort to violence. Now we're processing it, releasing the adrenaline. So last night we slept very little, so now we're realizing that we're here and this is the best thing you can talk about.