It could be the next season of the series ‘The Money Heist’but it has not happened in Spain, nor is this part of fiction. In this case, the thieves are not actors, nor were they wearing a red jumpsuit.
this monday December 29commotion has flooded the German city of Gelsenkirchenin western Germany, when the authorities reported a robbery at the vault of the sucursal savings bank and whose loot has been initially estimated by the authorities in 30 million euros.
The perpetrators of the robbery took advantage of the tranquility of Christmas days and that the branch was closed to enter. The alarm was activated at around 3.58am when a fire detector alerted the fire service.
“They took around 30 million euros,” according to television reports. NTVwhich cited sources from the investigation. However, the Gelsenkirchen Police confirmed in a statement that the Damage amounts to “tens of millions” of euros.
The actual amount of damage caused to the Gelsenkirchen branch is so great because the thieves entered the vault through a big hole which they carried out from an adjacent building, when the bank’s subsidiary was closed for the Christmas holidays.
“Due to the extensive construction damage suffered, clients cannot enter in that part until further notice,” indicated the entity that was the victim of the robbery.
According to police, several thousand customer safe deposit boxes inside the vault were affected by the theft. What the branch itself later confirmed indicating that the 95% of those boxes were forced by the perpetrators of the robbery.
The Police are investigating the video surveillance images from the building’s parking lot and has indicated that several suspects were seen traveling in an Audi RS6 model vehicle with the license plate from Hannover, a city in northern Germany.
Affected customers
The news of the robbery, which emerged on Monday, caused customer concentrations concerned about the fate of the valuables they had entrusted to the entity. The branch has made a special telephone line available to those affected; However, it has not been enough.
The diary Bild came to count some 200 personas in one of those first customer concentrations, scenes of tension that occurred again this Tuesday.
Customer vault safe deposit boxes are insured and valued at an amount of 10,300 eurosalthough the contents may be subject to other supplementary insurance.