{"id":219306,"date":"2025-12-31T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:58:08","slug":"thieves-drill-into-german-bank-vault-and-steal-property-worth-tens-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219306\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves drill into German bank vault and steal property worth tens of millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault they drilled into, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some 2,700 bank customers were affected by the theft in Gelsenkirchen on Monday during the holiday lull, police and the Sparkasse bank said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thomas Nowaczyk, a police spokesman, said investigators believed the theft was worth between 10 and 90 million euros (\u00a38.7 and \u00a379 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">German news agency dpa reported that the theft could be one of the country\u2019s largest heists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The bank remained closed on Tuesday, when some 200 people showed up demanding to get inside, dpa reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A fire alarm summoned police officers and firefighters to the bank branch shortly before 4am on Monday. They found a hole in the wall and the vault ransacked. Police believe a large drill was used to break through the vault\u2019s basement wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Witnesses told investigators they saw several men carrying large bags in a nearby parking garage over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Video footage from the garage shows masked people inside a stolen vehicle early on Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gelsenkirchen is about 119 miles (192km) north-west of Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4671,42,43,6514,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-219306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bank","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-place-international","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}