Through a hole in the wall, the perpetrators of a break-in into a German bank got into the room with safe deposit boxes. The photo attached by the Gelsenkirchen police from the vault destroyed by the burglars shows piles of items taken from the hiding places. It is not yet known what was stolen and the damage to customers.
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Where did the bank break-in take place?
What tools did the perpetrators use?
What did the services discover during the operation?
How does the police assess the intelligence of perpetrators?
According to the police, the investigation is being carried out “very intensively”. The services are appealing to possible witnesses – people who may have heard suspicious noises in the area last night.
The perpetrators of the burglary “took advantage of the quiet holiday days”
As a police spokesman in Gelsenkirchen told T-Online, the case concerns a bank in the northern part of the city. Most likely, the perpetrators got inside from the parking lot and then used a drill. They must have known exactly where the bank vault was. “They took advantage of the quiet holiday days,” he said, adding that they showed extraordinary cleverness and everything looked “like in a movie.”
The last such spectacular break-in into a German bank took place in 2013 in Berlin. It was called the heist of the century – the perpetrators dug a tunnel approximately 45 m long and stole loot worth approximately EUR 10 million. Some traces then led to Poland. However, the perpetrators were never found.
