{"id":766423,"date":"2026-02-15T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/766423\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:04:14","slug":"thieves-raid-german-bank-just-months-after-huge-raid-in-nearby-city-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/766423\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves raid German bank just months after huge raid in nearby city | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Germany are appealing for witnesses after thieves broke into the basement of a bank and stole from customer safety deposit boxes. <\/p>\n

Three individuals, who are thought to be men, were seen wearing blue overalls and walking from a Volksbank branch in Stuhr, northwestern Germany<\/a><\/strong>, at around 1.20pm on Friday (13 February), authorities said.<\/p>\n

They added that the trio were walking towards a dark car, but witnesses have so far said they aren’t sure whether they got in and drove away or walked past.<\/p>\n

The break-in comes just months after a huge heist in the city of Gelsenkirchen<\/a><\/strong>, a two-and-a-half-hour train journey from Stuhr.<\/p>\n

A gang of thieves took advantage of the Christmas holidays and drilled into a vault to steal millions of pounds worth of valuables.<\/p>\n

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\n Millions were stolen in the December 2025 heist\n <\/p>\n

Witnesses saw several men carrying large bags into the stairwell of a garage next to the bank overnight on Saturday 27 December.<\/p>\n

CCTV footage then captured a black Audi leaving early in the morning on Monday 29 December.<\/p>\n

The men broke into thousands of deposit boxes, with initial estimates placing the value of the raid between \u20ac10m to \u20ac90m (\u00a38.6m to \u00a378m), according to a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Germany are appealing for witnesses after thieves broke into the basement of a bank and stole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-766423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116075499854576966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}