A parishless Polish priest has been arrested on suspicion of armed bank robbery, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. Skip related content
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Police spokesman Jacek Michalowski told AFP that the 37-year-old was believed to have carried out a raid Monday on a bank in Szamotuly in western Poland.
"The robber threatened a cashier with a knife. He got away with several thousand zlotys," Michalowski said. One thousand zlotys is worth around 250 euros, or 350 dollars.
The man was arrested near Szamotuly an hour after the robbery, and told officers he was a priest from Bialogard in northwestern Poland.
"He's a priest but he doesn't currently have a posting. He did indeed work previously in Bialogard," the regional prosecutor's spokeswoman Magdalena Mazur-Prus told Poland's PAP news agency.
"For the moment, we don't know why he carried out the robbery," she said.
