Gelsenkirchen Police say thieves used the "quiet" days after Christmas to break into the high street branch.
  • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    I’m surprised that someone still practises the ancient art of physical brick-and-mortar bank heist. I guess the bank was also surprised.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    Nice to see some good old fashioned bank heists stil happening, none of this fancy pants social engineering to get passwords and accounts

      • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        38 minutes ago

        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

    • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      13 hours ago

      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.

        • AlexLost@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          11 hours ago

          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.

    • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      12 hours ago

      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.

      • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        41 minutes ago

        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.

        • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          46 minutes ago

          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.

        • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          43 minutes ago

          The article says thwart 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

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    I have no doubt they will get caught. With the number of cameras canvassing cities and infrastructure, it is only a matter of time before they can be backtracked to some point of origin, and then be found using standard police investigation techniques. This type of job will have been done by individuals from a small pool of criminals who specialize in them, and they’re not plentiful and almost always previously known by police.

    I’ve been thinking about it myself a lot for a book, and I just don’t see how they could get away in this day and age doing such a high profile robbery. Their best bet is to immediately move the loot and have third and fourth parties secure funds in overseas accounts so that they can access them after they served out their (relatively short) sentences, then live out their lives in wealth and opulence- except they rarely do that, because you don’t become a bank robber for the money.

    No matter how much money you potentially make, it’s never going to be enough.

    • RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      No…No…Nonononono…

      We OF COURSE need NOW cameras EVERYWHERE (yeah, Timmy, even in the cellar where you do what we ALREADY KNOW YOU DO THERE) and we HAVE TO implement AI (ARTIFICIAL GODDAMN INTELLIGENCE!“!§”“”“) to monitor the camera footage of every FUCKING CITIZEN, NON-CITIZEN, FUCKING EVERYONE!!!”.

    • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      The article doesn’t mention how much time passed since the crime occured and the discovery of the robbed vault. Depending on how much time passed, they could have easily fled the country, maybe even the EU.

    • velindora@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      8·
      10 hours ago

      Well bad because it was also safe deposit boxes, which wasn’t cash, and probably a person’s valuables emptied into a bag. This isn’t the Louvre heist where there were no actual victims.