The Civil Guard searches the underground of Bilbao looking for explosives or different risks for the Bank of Spain


Half a dozen brokers from the Civil Guard Underground Unit have traveled from Madrid There isn’t any protection within the sewers and solely a clock warns them of the time they’ve been inside They make recordings and a report to ensure that nothing compromises the safety of the Bank of Spain

The environment of the Bank of Spain, within the coronary heart of Bilbao, awakened for the second consecutive day taken over by the safety forces. Half a dozen brokers from the Civil Guard Underground Unit have traveled from Madrid to make sure that the safety of the constructing isn’t compromised. Agents management what will be seen with the bare eye, akin to wastebaskets and chests, and, above all, what can’t be seen. The work of this Unit is key within the group of enormous occasions to ensure safety.

This is a routine operation, not with out dangers for the brokers who search the underground galleries. In an train not appropriate for the claustrophobic, the civil guards descend two by two by some very slender galleries outfitted with oxygen masks.

Rats, cockroaches and a clock

In the bowels of town there is no such thing as a oxygen, nor protection, simply whole darkness. The brokers are outfitted with motion sensors and a watch, important to test the time they’ve been inside. In the underground labyrinth of galleries that extends a number of meters under Bilbao’s Gran Vía, the brokers share that slender area with rats and cockroaches.

The monitoring of the primary day confirmed that there have been no explosives, gadgets or obstacles that endangered the Bank of Spain. The brokers of the Civil Guard Underground Unit proceed their work in Bilbao immediately.