The paper house has become a reality: 2.5 million dollars were stolen from the Moneda de Mexico Palace

"Currently, the corresponding investigations are underway and those responsible for this flight are being monitored," he said.

According to versions of the Mexican press, the badault would have occurred Tuesday morning, when three people neutralized a security guard and went to the vault of the place, without the theft leaves wounded.

Local Public Security Secretary Jesús Orta said that "the amount is about to be quantified, it was in kind, in metal clocks, centennial and commemorative". However, the local press claims that this represents 50 million pesos (about 2.5 million dollars).

The centenarians are gold coins minted in Mexico since 1921 to celebrate the first centenary of the country's independence. Each has a value of about 35,500 pesos (about 1,800 dollars).

On social networks, hundreds of people have compared the theft with Netflix's Spanish series "La Casa de Papel", which tells the story of a group of thieves who dock at the Museum of the national currency and the doorbell. Spain in their first season. to get a loot of millions of dollars in euros.

Some users have suggested that this series chronicling the actions of the international group of thieves would have inspired this Tuesday's robbery in the overcrowded city of Mexico City.

Mexico City has seen an increase in violent incidents and public insecurity. In late July, two Israelis linked to their country's mafia and Mexican drug traffickers were killed in a shopping center in the south of the capital.