Sony/ PIAS warehouse fire may have been a professional job

September 1st, 2011

Grant Trimboli

New evidence has revealed that the catastrophic fire that destroyed the Sony/PIAS distribution warehouse during the London riots earlier the month. The Telegraph reports that the blaze might have been the work of professionals, according to “sources in the security industry.”

Those sources revealed to The Telegraph that a group of looters used “specialist cutting equipment” to cut down a “high security fence” before breaking into the warehouse. They than drove in a “fleet of vans” to load up on stolen goods. Security guards at the warehouse could not stop the robbers and were unable to recieve help from the police, whose resources were already thin as they attempted to subdue the rioting in London.

Three teenagers were arrested earlier this month in connection with the fire. Previous reports cited the damages at 23 million discs destroyed. The Telegraph’s numbers, however, are much lower, claiming that only three million discs and tens of thousands of DVDs were lost in the fire.

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