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Reuters
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Thieves used the quiet Christmas interval to drill their method into the vault of a German retail bank and make off with at the least 10 million euros’ value of cash and valuables from prospects’ deposit packing containers, police mentioned on Tuesday.
The perpetrators drilled by means of a thick concrete wall at a department of Sparkasse bank within the western metropolis of Gelsenkirchen and then broke into a number of thousand secure deposit packing containers and stole a sum estimated within the double-digit millions of euros, the police mentioned in an announcement.
Most retailers and banks shut in Germany over the Christmas interval ranging from the night of December 24, and police solely found the opening after a hearth alarm went off within the early hours of Monday, December 29.
Dozens of offended prospects gathered in entrance of the bank on Tuesday loudly chanting “Let us in!.”
“I couldn’t sleep last night. We’re getting no information,” one man advised the Welt broadcaster as he waited outdoors the department, including that he had been utilizing the secure for 25 years and that it contained his financial savings for outdated age.
Another man mentioned he used his deposit field to retailer money and jewellery for his household.
A spokesperson for the Sparkasse bank in Gelsenkirchen didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Police mentioned witnesses have reported that they noticed a number of males on Saturday evening carrying massive luggage within the stairwell of an adjoining parking storage.
There have been additionally studies of a black Audi RS 6 leaving the storage early on Monday morning with masked males inside. The automobile’s license plate was that of a automobile stolen in Hanover, greater than 200 kilometers to the northeast of Gelsenkirchen, police mentioned.