With the support of Europol, the Dutch Police, working together with the German Police Directorate of Hochtaunus, has arrested 3 suspected members of a criminal gang responsible for a string of robberies targeting ATMs in Germany.
The arrests took place on in the early hours of 17 May in Haarlem and Vianen in the Netherlands. These arrests follow those of 3 other members of the same criminal group on 30 March 2022 in Hessen.
The gang is believed to have targeted a total of eight cash machines in Hessen, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony and Rhineland Palatinate in Germany between October and November 2021, stealing over EUR 958 000 in cash, according to the press release.
The group would attend at the scene often in stolen vehicles in the early hours of the morning, and used explosives to break into the ATMs so that they could then steal the cash from inside them. They caused close to EUR 1 million worth of damage to the premises they attacked, demonstrating no insight into the risk of harm, or even possibility of death, to those who lived nearby or who were near the machines at the time.
In addition to the 6 members arrested so far, law enforcement is seeking to identify a seventh member of this gang.
The German Prosecutor General’s Office Frankfurt am Main are urging members of the public with information to come forward. Anyone who has any knowledge of these fugitives’ whereabouts should get in touch with any information that can help to track down the fugitives.
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