Lower Saxony: Perpetrators got here in the course of the lunch break – financial institution lockers have been damaged into once more | EUROtoday

Once once more, lockers have been damaged into within the basement of a financial institution department – this time in Stuhr close to Bremen. “No information can be given about the loot at the moment,” the police in Diepholz mentioned within the night. So far there is no such thing as a hint of the perpetrators.

At the tip of December, in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, burglars obtained into the vault of the native financial savings financial institution by way of a drill gap. They broke into greater than 3,000 secure deposit bins and fled with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in gold, money and different valuables.

According to the police, the burglars in Stuhr broke into the basement through a lightweight shaft in the course of the financial institution’s lunch break on Friday. There they broke open a number of doorways to get to the lockers. A police spokesman mentioned within the night what number of lockers there have been within the affected Volksbank department and what number of of them had been damaged into.

Employees complained of nausea

The break-in was seen as a result of staff on the financial institution department immediately complained of feeling unwell and nauseated. The motive for this was an unknown liquid that the perpetrators sprayed within the basement. Among different issues, it was discovered on door handles. What it was and what the burglars used the liquid for remains to be unclear, mentioned the police spokesman.

After the financial institution staff complained of feeling sick, colleagues instantly alerted the emergency companies and obtained all staff out of the home. The motive for the sensation of unwellness solely grew to become obvious later, the police spokesman defined.

The neighborhood fireplace division responded and cordoned off a big space across the affected department. An ABC prepare was additionally in use, reported the “district newspaper” in Syke.

“The fire department did not find any elevated readings when checking the premises while wearing respiratory protection,” the police mentioned. Two financial institution staff have been handled by emergency companies, however weren’t injured.

“The perpetrators couldn’t have had that much time”

The financial institution department is positioned on a busy road close to the city corridor within the small city of Stuhr. It is now being decided whether or not there may be digital camera surveillance in and across the constructing. It can be nonetheless unclear what number of perpetrators have been lively and the way they escaped.

The police spokesman mentioned the financial institution was a somewhat small department. At the time of the break-in, the financial institution was closed for lunch earlier than reopening within the afternoon. “The perpetrators couldn’t have had that much time,” mentioned the police spokesman.