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Wasn’t this one of the Die Hard movies?
Wow, look at the show off Germans, with their fancy high street banks.
I think the most valuable thing I could steal in my town is the contents of the vape shop.
sounds like the robbers had a payday
Where do you get a drill that big?
More important question is that how do you use it quietly enough to not gain attention.
I’m surprised that someone still practises the ancient art of physical brick-and-mortar bank heist. I guess the bank was also surprised.
When the prolific and unrepentant bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied “That’s where the money is.”
Can’t argue with that logic
Another recession indicator: resurgence of high-profile heists
If we don’t switch from a Trickle Down to a Trickle UP Economy, we will spontaneously flip to a Robin Hood Economy (Take from the rich, give to the poor), and that usually comes accompanied by guillotines and what not.
They just don’t do bank robberies like they used to…
Nice to see some good old fashioned bank heists stil happening, none of this fancy pants social engineering to get passwords and accounts
€30mil in cash is some haul.
Like the pile of cash scene from breaking bad
It wasn’t just cash but jewelry and other valuables as well.
Any haul is 10 times lighter if you bring it home and get it for free :)
The “vault” had a brick wall and wooden shelves?
From the photo, there seems to have been a substantial-thickness concrete wall and then a brick wall. Obviously, they were still not enough, but it wasn’t just a brick wall.
And about the wooden shelves: So what? They are not security relevant or customer facing, they just need to work as shelves.
More formal vaults have boxes which are locked in place so that even removing the locked box requires a key.
That’s a lock box vault, not a standard vault. Those have the people that own the boxes entering them often, so of course everything inside is behind another lock and key. Normal vaults don’t usually ha e strangers entering them.
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.
The article says there were safe deposit boxes so the shelves in the picture were probably used to hold other non-valuable stuff like paperwork.
Nope. You do not have open shelves in a safe deposit boxes room.
This is where they started drilling. The room with the safe deposit boxes is on the other side of the hole.The real safe deposit room seems to be not visible. This here is just the main entrance into the bank. I believe they had a large, reinforced room, separated by thin dry walls, so that they have one publicly accessible area and one where they would store documents internally.The photo caption says they started from a parking garage. The near side doesn’t look like a parking garage, it looks ransacked. And everything on the floor is under a mosaic censor. The near side in the photo is the vault.
Thanks. Edited my comment!
The article says they used a parking garage. I think the reason so much is blurred in the picture is that there are documents. This is the bank side
True, thanks, edited my comment.
No. This is where they did the drilling.
That’s your wishful thinking. The blurred pile is boxes and documents they pulled down and tore open from the wooden shelves. It says they came in from a parking garage
Hans Gruber lives!
It’s not about the Hans, it’s about sending a Simon.
Good fuck the banks
Eh, the bank probably won’t be inconvenienced much. I imagine they have insurance, so the insurance company will be fucked, so good cause fuck insurance companies.
Although for something this big the government might be the insurance for the bank, so taxpayers might foot the bill.
So fuck us I guess, we lose again.
Merry christmas to them!
is this meant to be ironic considering they removed a wall to get paid?
No, it’s probably because of the BBC paywall.
Those safe deposit boxes did not live up to their description.
The PAYDAY games would have you think they were made of titanium.
They’re safe, just not secure.
Hell yeah.
