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GERMAN POLICE SAY robbers dug a 30-metre tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as they left to cover their tracks.
Berlin police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf says the tunnel led from an underground garage into the bank’s safe deposit room.
Neuendorf told The Associated Press today that the tunnel was “very professional” and must have taken weeks or even months to complete. It was elaborately constructed and even had ceiling supports.
Police were alerted to the break-in early today when a security guard noticed smoke coming from the deposit room.
Neuendorf says police are still trying to determine what valuables were stolen from the deposit boxes.
Details of the heist called to mind the spectacular robbery of another Berlin bank in 1995. During that robbery thieves entered the bank through the door, took a hostage and demanded a helicopter and ransom.
Police besieged and eventually stormed the safe room where the thieves had holed up only to find out they had escaped through a tunnel dug by accomplices. Several – but not all – of the thieves were later caught.
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Hopefully our loan agreement was in that vault ….
What loan agreement … wink wink
Yeah Aisling
Along with the Irish Government’s balls.
Ha! Even when they rob banks they do it right….good oul German efficiency.
The same think happened to to an Irish bank last week. The thieves escaped with 20 pens, 4 calculators and 50 elastic bands
Yes
The Rita Hayworth poster should have givin it away!
The Great Escape
You should work for an Irish bank lads.
You could robb a lot more.
Without all the heavy lifting and without any fear of getting caught.
The Italian job ….
Fair play to them
Well done. Great job.
Well done, great job? Robbing safety deposit boxes!! Wouldn’t mind if they went after the money but ordinary decent peoples most prized possessions!! That’s just nasty!
Great work they deserve every penny of if
This has Simon Gruber’s prints all over it. Where’s John McClane when you need him?
John Phillips london, nice suit. I have 2 myself.
Ah Bernard, wrong Gruber! That quote is from Hans Gruber in Die Hard 1. Simon Gruber is his brother in Die Hard 3.
And yes ladies, I am single.
Hopefully it was board members from the IBRC who pulled this heist.
Here the Germans just get our lads in the dail just vote to hand it over much less messy
so the bailout money literally has went into a black hole lol
They just didn’t want to fill in the feckin forms.
The Germans even do bank jobs better then us.
They robbed that idea from Sexy Beast!
Which robbed it from plenty of much better previous films.
I wonder if they were part of the Irish traveller group (report in this forum) involved in the Norwegian heist just recently?
Would that be “poetic justice” ?
Lol in Ireland it’s the banks that do the robbing with noonan and shatter riding shotgun
I heard it was Enda Kenny and his homies.
What time are there flight due in to Dublin. Congrats lads
Just ask enda for it . No digging no fuss mess
No interest
The big banks steal our money all the time. This is just loose change to them.
The movie “The bank job” comes to mind
German efficiency at it’s best, well done boys. :)
Hopefully it was board members from the IBRC that pulled the heist.
Like a scene from a Jason Bourne movie
That should go down in history for later life.
Genius, id do the same given half a chance.
Class!
I haven’t seen Bertie for a while. Just thinking as he doesn’t have a bank account etc etc. he has been known to be an expert in the field of “deposits”.
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