Thieves use drill to steal €30m in German bank heist

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Thieves used a large drill to break into a safe at a high street bank branch in western Germany and steal an estimated €30m (£26m; $35m) in cash and valuables, police have said.
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During the heist at Sparkasse savings bank in the city of Gelsenkirchen, thieves broke open more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes containing money, gold and jewellery.
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Currently, no arrests have been made and the perpetrators remain at large.
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Initial investigations suggest they gained access to the bank, and escaped, via an adjacent parking garage.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grzz60kp3o

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As the police say, all very movie-like.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Look for thieves who own a copy of Woody Allen's "Small Time Crooks"

They stole his methodology.

[erronis]

2. Crypto theft is so much easier. No wonder that trump/musk/thiel are pushing it.

[erronis]

3. Safe-deposit box owners are screwed.

Sparkasse said 95% of customers' safe deposit boxes had been forced open by the thieves, so the likelihood they were affected is "very high".

It added that the contents of each compartment are insured up to 10,300 and told customers to check if they had additional coverage through their home insurance.

10,000 euros is probably a pittance for the losses. I'm thinking a lot of very important papers, jewelry, historical mementos, etc.

[JoseBalow]

4. And wine bottles full of LSD

[erronis]

5. Or other fun substances.

I missed out on the LSD trips. Tried crushing morning glory seeds when I was a teen but they just tasted like pencil shavings (remember those?)

[FakeNoose]

6. It takes time to force open 3,000 safe deposit boxes

Even with a good power drill this heist must have taken more than 24 hours ... probably more like 48 hours.
In all that time, nobody saw or heard anything?