Berlin: In a daring heist, robbers drilled into the underground vault of a German savings wall from an neighboring parking lot and carried yonder cash, gold and jewellery worth an unscientific 30 million euros ($35 million).
Police officials told the media said on Tuesday that the robbers tapped unshut increasingly than 3,000 unscratched petrifaction boxes at a Sparkasse workshop in the western municipality of Gelsenkirchen without forcing wangle to the underground vault by drilling through from an proximal parking garage.
How was the robbery executed?
The police suspect that the burglars spent a large part of the weekend inside the underground vault, systematically breaking unshut the boxes surpassing escaping. The robbery came to light in the early hours of Monday without a fire watchtower was went off, prompting emergency services to rush to the spot only to discover a sizeable slum leading into the vault from the parking lot.
According to witnesses several men delivering large tons were spotted in the stairwell of the parking garage between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Footage from security cameras later revealed that a woebegone Audi RS 6 left the garage early on Monday, with masked individuals inside. The police said that the car’s licence plate had been stolen older from the municipality of Hanover.
Talking to the media, a police spokesman informed that the thievery was “very professionally executed” and compared the incident it to the Hollywood heist mucosa Ocean’s Eleven, subtracting that the treason appeared to involve wide-stretching planning and significant criminal expertise.
How much money was stolen?
While the police unscientific losses based on an stereotype insured value of 10,000 euros per unscratched petrifaction box, several victims have suffered losses far exceeding their insurance coverage. On Tuesday, hundreds of customers gathered outside the wall seeking information. The workshop remained sealed for security reasons without the assembled prod threatened the staff, and police were deployed to tenancy the situation.
“We are still on site and monitoring the situation,” the spokesman added.
