Thieves used a drill to breach Sparkasse vault over Christmas, looting 95% of customers’ safe deposit boxes
Thieves executed a meticulously planned heist, making off with an estimated $35 million (approximately €30 million) in cash and personal valuables from a bank vault in Gelsenkirchen over the Christmas holidays, according to police.
The break-in at a Sparkasse savings bank occurred sometime between Saturday evening and Monday morning. The thieves bypassed security by drilling through a thick concrete wall to access the vault, then forced open over 3,000 safe deposit boxes, impacting approximately 2,700 customers.
Police discovered the…
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