Durres/ A 29 year old arrested for trying to rob a bank

A 29-year-old man was arrested in Durres as part of the police operation codenamed “Exchange”.

Florenc Deda tried to forcefully take a sum of money from the cash register of a second level bank but he could not. During his departure, he forcibly took 500,000 ALL in an exchange.
From the investigative actions and the inspection of the video footage, it was found that the 29-year-old is the suspected author of both cases of the attempt and the violent taking of the amount of money in the neighborhood no. 1 and in the neighborhood no. 3, Durres.
As material evidence, the Police services seized the amount of money taken by force in the exchange./abcnews.al

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