Gelsenkirchen Police
The robbers reportedly spent much of the weekend inside the bank, while breaking into the deposit safes.
Thieves used a large drill to break into the Sparkasse bank in Gelsenkirchen, revealed the German police, who compared the robbery to the film “Ocean’s Eleven”.
A group of robbers used large drilling equipment to enter the vault room of a German bank and steal money, gold and jewelry at an estimated value of 30 million eurosthe German police announced this Tuesday.
According to the AFP agency, the robbery, which took place in the city of Gelsenkirchenin western Germany, allowed thieves to open more than 3,000 security safes.
At a time when, apparently, criminals were on the run, hundreds of worried customers This Tuesday they gathered outside the bank branch, demanding information.
According to the police, the robbers drilled access to the underground room from the Sparkasse bank vault from a garage of parking. The robbers will have passed much of the weekend inside the bankwhile breaking into the deposit safes.
The assault was only discovered after a fire alarm was called in the early hours of Monday, which led emergency services to find the hole.
Witnesses reported seeing several men carrying large bags on the garage stairs overnight from Saturday to Sunday. Video surveillance images also show a black Audi RS 6 leaving the garage in the early hours of Monday, with masked people indoor.
According to the police, the vehicle’s registration number had been stolen formerly in the city of Hanover.
A police spokesperson told AFP that the robbery was “in fact carried out by highly professional way”, comparing it to the film “Ocean’s Eleven“, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
“It took a prior knowledge considerable, and/or a large dose of criminal energy to plan and carry out this robbery”, he stated.
The more than 3,000 safes had, on average, a insured value of 10 thousand eurosthus estimating the loss at around 30 million euros. Several victims told police that their losses far exceed the insured value of their respective coffers.
