The Västberga helicopter robbery (in Sweden )
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The Västberga helicopter robbery occurred on 23 September 2009 at 05:15 CET when a G4S cash service depot was robbed in in southern Stockholm, Sweden. The robbers used a stolen Bell 206 Jet Ranger as transport and landed on the rooftop of the G4S building
The masked gunmen jumped out on to the roof of the G4S cash depot in the Västberga area just after 5am, smashed windows with a sledgehammer and made their way inside. Around 20 staff were in the building at the time of the attack, many believed to have been counting money.
Once the gang was inside, witnesses reported hearing several loud bangs. The helicopter casually hovered for 15 minutes waiting for the men to load up bags of stolen cash from the roof-top.
Meanwhile, a police Swat team was seen desperately trying to enter the cash depot with a battering ram.The police were unable to call out their own helicopters because suspected explosives had been placed at the aircraft hangar in a bag marked "bomb". The police believed it was
...a live bomb to hinder thier response.The robbers had also put Small spiked objects had also been spread out on the road near the depot in an attempt to hinder the police from approaching the scene.
No staff were injured in the robbery. Investigators said the thieves wore masks and were believed to have carried automatic weapons and detonated explosives during the 20-minute raid.
The helicopter takes off from the rooftop at 05:35 with all the robbers and the money on board.The helicopter the robbers used is found at 08:15 in the woods just outside a field at Skavlöten in Arninge, twenty kilometers north of Stockholm.
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