This is the brazen moment a gang uses a stolen digger to pluck a cash machine from a residential street in Italy.
Footage, filmed from a flat above, shows how several crooks clad in black look on as one of their group sets upon the ATM with the excavator.
The heavy construction equipment can be heard making a deafening racket as it tears the cash machine from the wall of the post office in the commune of Valverde - near Catania, Sicily - at night.
After the ATM is ripped from the wall, the digger operator scoops it up in the bucket and loads it into the back of a white van.
Then, the five gang members still on the street can be seen scrambling into the van and a white car before speeding off down the road with their loot.
The brazen theft, which lasted just two minutes, took place in the early hours of 12th March.
Footage of the heist was posted online and quickly did the rounds.
Local media said all the vehicles used in the heist were stolen.
At the time of reporting, the provisional estimate of the theft amounted to more than EUR 20,000 (£17,500).
Local media report that the use of diggers in thefts has become common in the Catania area in recent years.
Carabinieri are investigating the case.
Last year, the ringleader of the Hatton Garden heist was seen enjoying a stroll after being freed from prison with two-thirds of his £14million haul still unrecovered.
Jones, 66, looked fit and relaxed after completing three sentences in the wake of the 2015 hole-in-the-wall raid.
He got seven years for the burglary and another three years in 2018 for an earlier raid on a Mayfair jewellers.
Jones was handed a further six years and 287 days for failing to repay more than six million he was said to have made from the Hatton Garden heist.
Police claim two thirds of the stolen cash and jewels remain unrecovered. .
By March 2020, Jones had repaid £548,218.47 after the elderly criminals were hit by one of the biggest proceeds of crime orders in British history.
He was released from HMP Hollesley Bay this week and was seen enjoying his freedom near his home in Enfield, north London.
His release means Michael “Basil the Ghost” Seed, 60, and John “Kenny”
Collins, 81, are the only two members of the gang who remain in jail.
Mastermind Brian Reader, 82, was released after serving three years in 2018.
A judge later ruled his dementia meant he did not have to go back inside for failing to repay the stolen millions.
Reader is understood to still be living at his home in Dartford, south east London.
Fellow ringleader Terry Perkins died in prison in 2018 aged 69.
