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Another recession indicator: resurgence of high-profile heists
They just don’t do bank robberies like they used to…
If we don’t switch from a Trickle Down to a Trickle UP Economy, we will spontaneously flip to a Robin Hood Economy (Take from the rich, give to the poor), and that usually comes accompanied by guillotines and what not.
I’m surprised that someone still practises the ancient art of physical brick-and-mortar bank heist. I guess the bank was also surprised.
When the prolific and unrepentant bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied “That’s where the money is.”
Can’t argue with that logic
€30mil in cash is some haul.
Like the pile of cash scene from breaking bad
It wasn’t just cash but jewelry and other valuables as well.
Any haul is 10 times lighter if you bring it home and get it for free :)
Nice to see some good old fashioned bank heists stil happening, none of this fancy pants social engineering to get passwords and accounts
The “vault” had a brick wall and wooden shelves?
From the photo, there seems to have been a substantial-thickness concrete wall and then a brick wall. Obviously, they were still not enough, but it wasn’t just a brick wall.
And about the wooden shelves: So what? They are not security relevant or customer facing, they just need to work as shelves.
More formal vaults have boxes which are locked in place so that even removing the locked box requires a key.
That’s a lock box vault, not a standard vault. Those have the people that own the boxes entering them often, so of course everything inside is behind another lock and key. Normal vaults don’t usually ha e strangers entering them.
During the heist at Sparkasse savings bank in the city of Gelsenkirchen, thieves broke open more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes containing money, gold and jewellery.
The article says there were safe deposit boxes so the shelves in the picture were probably used to hold other non-valuable stuff like paperwork.
Hans Gruber lives!
It’s not about the Hans, it’s about sending a Simon.
Good fuck the banks
Eh, the bank probably won’t be inconvenienced much. I imagine they have insurance, so the insurance company will be fucked, so good cause fuck insurance companies.
Although for something this big the government might be the insurance for the bank, so taxpayers might foot the bill.
So fuck us I guess, we lose again.
Merry christmas to them!
Wasn’t this one of the Die Hard movies?
I have no doubt they will get caught. With the number of cameras canvassing cities and infrastructure, it is only a matter of time before they can be backtracked to some point of origin, and then be found using standard police investigation techniques. This type of job will have been done by individuals from a small pool of criminals who specialize in them, and they’re not plentiful and almost always previously known by police.
I’ve been thinking about it myself a lot for a book, and I just don’t see how they could get away in this day and age doing such a high profile robbery. Their best bet is to immediately move the loot and have third and fourth parties secure funds in overseas accounts so that they can access them after they served out their (relatively short) sentences, then live out their lives in wealth and opulence- except they rarely do that, because you don’t become a bank robber for the money.
No matter how much money you potentially make, it’s never going to be enough.
The article doesn’t mention how much time passed since the crime occured and the discovery of the robbed vault. Depending on how much time passed, they could have easily fled the country, maybe even the EU.
No…No…Nonononono…
We OF COURSE need NOW cameras EVERYWHERE (yeah, Timmy, even in the cellar where you do what we ALREADY KNOW YOU DO THERE) and we HAVE TO implement AI (ARTIFICIAL GODDAMN INTELLIGENCE!“!§”“”“) to monitor the camera footage of every FUCKING CITIZEN, NON-CITIZEN, FUCKING EVERYONE!!!”.
With a fucking looney tunes drill.
Hell yeah.
Good
Well bad because it was also safe deposit boxes, which wasn’t cash, and probably a person’s valuables emptied into a bag. This isn’t the Louvre heist where there were no actual victims.
Ok that part sucks
The Louvre is a national government-owned museum, so the victims in that case are the people of France (plus any visiting tourists).
They’ve got insurance
Right, but many people would consider the works there to be priceless (even if an insurance company is able to put a price on it for their purposes)
The rich victims have insurance, and they can sue the bank, so that makes things even more difficult for the bank, and now an insurance company. This gets better and better.
Rich people think their wealth insulates them from annoyance and inconvenience, and yet vast amounts of it seem to only exacerbate it, which is nice. I’m glad when they are unhappy.
> Gelsenkirchen
> rich people
lol
lmao evenThe boxes were only insured for up to about 10.000€ (hence the 30 million € in damages, it’s not like they know what was on those boxes, it’s just that apparently all 3.000 of those were plundered). For anything more you’d need to get an extra insurance. Guess what most people didn’t get? That’s apart from the fact that you’d need to be able to prove what was in there and was stolen from you to see any money.
Also, this isn’t some giant banking corporation where this happened, it’s the local savings bank.
Local savings bank? Do you think it’s like the old West, where the customers deposits are kept on the bank’s safe? A small local savings and loan does business just like a big bank. If they get robbed, they have the same protections as a big bank.
If you have so much money in one account that it isn’t covered by insurance, that’s on you. 99% of people’s account would be completely covered. I seriously don’t care about rich people losing their money.
It’s Robin Hood time, baby. Just leave small local businesses alone. But it’s fair game for big corporations.
Not everyone who has money in a bank or valuables in a safe deposit box is rich.
People who aren’t rich keep documents, like divorce papers and birth certificates, in their safety deposit boxes, which the thieves don’t want. They only steal the jewelry and cash that the rich people are hiding.
I doubt they went through the items. They cracked the box and emptied it into a bag. Paper can be valuable depending what’s on it, they figure that out later.
Nah, these are bank robbers, it isn’t a movie. They want a quick turnover for their haul. If they open it, and it’s full of paper, they just drop it, and go to the next one, hoping its jewelry or cash. No sense filling your bag with heavy paper that may or may not be valuable, and is difficult to fence in any case. You’d hate to get near the end, and have no more room for gold and jewels, because youve got a lot of divorce papers.
Oh is that what they did in your fantasy? I guess the way to thwart a bank robber is to put cash and jewels inside an envelope.
Wow, look at the show off Germans, with their fancy high street banks.
I think the most valuable thing I could steal in my town is the contents of the vape shop.
