“Oh Dionisio, / It was a total thing on the bench without a bad shot / A lot of ‘visio’ / Hitting the stick and hitting the roof / The number of nights that I have dedicated to planning / A blow like the one you gave with a couple”. Precisely those last three words gave the title to this song by Joaquín Sabina that spoke of the ‘feat’ of Dionisio Rodríguezbetter known as Dioni, who at 40 years old He went from living near other people’s money to putting it in his pocket after escaping with the van he was guarding as a security guard.
A seamless plan that is almost 35 years old. It was his turn to go down to collect the money, but he told his colleagues to go because he had had a sciatica attack. They abandoned the vehicle and he left the scene driving it. The loot: 298 million pesetas, more than 1.7 million euros.
Many idolized him, since that normal and boring man had made gold without harming anyone; In fact, they thought he had taken the money but had been so noble as to leave an amount that covered the salaries of his companions. The truth is He left the coins, the weight of which would make transportation very difficult..
Before carrying out the coup, he had obtained a false passport with which, via Portugal, he traveled to Brazil, where he lived a life of luxury and ostentation after undergoing surgery to avoid being recognized and to hide his crossed eye (which was not a genetic defect). birthbut the first mark of his personal career, after the whipping with a cable that a neighbor gave him when he was little). He tried to buy the local police into giving his identity to a corpse and declaring him dead, but found that they also wanted to do business and they asked him for such an amount of money that there was no agreement and they handed it over to the Spanish police, who were unable to find the location of all the stolen bills (in addition to everything he spent in those months of lack of control in South America).
And now, at almost 75 years old, is there anything left of that loot? “I don’t have a single euro of what was stolen, I live off my retirement pension of 700 euros. I don’t sing or bowl anymore. I’m not well off with money and I’m overwhelmed by debt. The money disappeared. “I stayed very little because they betrayed me.”said the famous thief in an interview in the magazine Soon.
“No regrets”
Dioni, who says that he recently suffered a stroke and had to undergo surgery to clean the blocked artery that caused the scare, says that remember the robbery as “a dream”. “Now I see it with a different perspective, then I was very young and had some impulses, while now I calibrate the steps I am going to take much more.”
And he has no regrets: “With the golfing that exists in this country, starting with the upper echelons, mine remains an anecdote. I feel like stealing another van. “I have no remorse of conscience.”
Sabina already said it: “What a level / What a Sorcerer’s Apprentice / Indiana Jones Nose / Luxury toupee / But to the parrot / That destiny is a faggot / Without decorum / It gives you champagne and then chinchón”.
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