ATM burglar caught in Strasbourg
Published: Friday, Sep 6th 2024, 18:40
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After a cash machine was blown up in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany), the French police arrested 13 suspects just hours later in Strasbourg in Alsace. The criminals had also struck in Switzerland.
The gang is said to have stolen several hundred thousand euros in a series of attacks in Germany, France and Switzerland, reported the newspaper "Le Parisien", citing the police. According to the Rheinpfalz police headquarters, initially unknown perpetrators blew up the ATM at a Volksbank branch in Hagenbach in the southern Palatinate in the early hours of Friday morning.
When five suspects from this blast arrived in Strasbourg in the morning, they were arrested with the other suspects in a garage in the problem district of Meinau, as the newspaper reported. Several vehicles and cash are said to have been seized. The detainees are said to be Dutch, French and Russian.
The criminal investigation department in Strasbourg had been working with other departments and the police in Baden-Württemberg to track down the gang since the summer. The perpetrators are said to have struck around a dozen times in Germany, at least five times in Switzerland and once in Strasbourg and its suburb of Illkirch-Graffenstaden.
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