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Thieves stole tens of millions of Euros worthy of spot from information deposit boxes wrong a German slope vault that they drilled into Monday (December 29, 2025) during the vacation lull, constabulary said.
Some 2,700 slope customers were affected by the theft successful Gelsenkirchen, constabulary and the Sparkasse slope said.
Thomas Nowaczyk, a constabulary spokesperson, said investigators judge the theft was worthy betwixt 10 and 90 cardinal Euros ($11.7 to 105.7 million).
German quality bureau dpa reported that the theft could beryllium 1 of Germany's largest heists.
The slope remained closed Tuesday, erstwhile immoderate 200 radical showed up demanding to get inside, dpa reported.
A occurrence alarm summoned constabulary officers and firefighters to the slope subdivision soon earlier 4 americium Monday. They recovered a spread successful the partition and the vault ransacked. Police judge a ample drill was utilized to interruption done the vault's basement wall.
Witnesses told investigators they saw respective men carrying ample bags successful a adjacent parking store implicit the weekend. Video footage from the store shows masked radical wrong a stolen conveyance aboriginal Monday, constabulary said.
Gelsenkirchen is astir 192 kilometres (119 miles) northwest of Frankfurt.
