Hier noch der Hinweis auf einen Bericht zum Berliner Volksbank-Tunneleinbruch von Joseph de Weck auf den Webseiten von Bloomberg (1.2. 2013), der die Berliner Bankraubhistorie bemüht:
Mystery Bank Heist Is Flashback to Berlin’s Murky Underworld
A hidden tunnel, a fake Dutch passport, and strewn contents of smashed up safe-deposit boxes are among the clues confounding police in Berlin trying to solve a bank heist that recalls the German capital’s past as a hotbed of crime and espionage.
Police in the city, the scene of the infamous Sass brothers’ bank raid in 1929 and a robbery at a Commerzbank AG branch in 1995, said a group of criminals toiled in secret for months from an adjacent underground garage. They dug a 45-meter (147.6 feet) tunnel before breaking into the vault at a Berliner Volksbank eG outlet in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area last month. The bank’s insurance arm is offering a maximum 25,000 euros ($33,710) for information leading to the recovery of the loot.
A pedestrian walks past a locked branch of Berliner Volksbank following a robbery of the bank in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area of
Police in Berlin said a group of criminals secretly toiled for months from an adjacent underground garage to dig a 45-meter tunnel before breaking into the vault at a Berliner Volksbank eG outlet in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area last month.
Adding to Berlin’s folklore of underground escapades, the perpetrators probably used picks and shovels to dig out 120 tons of earth and build the cavity, stabilized with props and sidewalls three meters below the ground, and penetrated the vault’s 80 centimeter-thick reinforced concrete back wall with a water-cooled core drill, police said. They made off without a trace after raiding more than 300 deposit boxes on the weekend of Jan. 12.
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Mystery Bank Heist Is Flashback to Berlin’s Murky Underworld
A hidden tunnel, a fake Dutch passport, and strewn contents of smashed up safe-deposit boxes are among the clues confounding police in Berlin trying to solve a bank heist that recalls the German capital’s past as a hotbed of crime and espionage.
Police in the city, the scene of the infamous Sass brothers’ bank raid in 1929 and a robbery at a Commerzbank AG branch in 1995, said a group of criminals toiled in secret for months from an adjacent underground garage. They dug a 45-meter (147.6 feet) tunnel before breaking into the vault at a Berliner Volksbank eG outlet in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area last month. The bank’s insurance arm is offering a maximum 25,000 euros ($33,710) for information leading to the recovery of the loot.
A pedestrian walks past a locked branch of Berliner Volksbank following a robbery of the bank in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area of
Police in Berlin said a group of criminals secretly toiled for months from an adjacent underground garage to dig a 45-meter tunnel before breaking into the vault at a Berliner Volksbank eG outlet in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf area last month.
Adding to Berlin’s folklore of underground escapades, the perpetrators probably used picks and shovels to dig out 120 tons of earth and build the cavity, stabilized with props and sidewalls three meters below the ground, and penetrated the vault’s 80 centimeter-thick reinforced concrete back wall with a water-cooled core drill, police said. They made off without a trace after raiding more than 300 deposit boxes on the weekend of Jan. 12.
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