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Robbers in Germany managed to break into a bank vault and stole up to 90 million euros worth of valuables from safe deposit boxes, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
The robbery, which affected around 2,700 customers, took place at the Sparkasse bank in Gelsenkirchen on Monday, but details were only revealed later.
At around 4:00 PM local time (6:00 PM Moscow time) on Monday, a fire alarm sounded at the bank, prompting firefighters and police to arrive. They discovered a hole in the wall made by robbers and a ransacked vault.
Thieves took advantage of the quiet Christmas period to break into the vault of a German retail bank.
In Germany, most shops and banks close for the Christmas holidays starting on the evening of December 24, and police only discovered the hole after a fire alarm went off early on Monday morning, December 29.
Police said witnesses saw several men carrying large bags down the stairwell of a nearby multi-level parking garage on Saturday evening.
There were also reports of a black Audi RS 6 leaving a garage early Monday morning, with masked men inside. According to police, the license plate belonged to a car stolen in Hanover, more than 200 kilometers northeast of Gelsenkirchen.
The German news agency DPA reported that this robbery could be one of the largest in the history of Germany.
