Professional gangs have swooped into Germany over the years to rob ATMs. German authorities are starting to fight back against the criminals.
Three criminal gang members were arrested in Holland earlier last year for their alleged role in blowing up ATM’s in Germany.
The German daily broadsheet Die Welt published an investigative report on January 13 on the organized crimeThe professional gangs"break into branches, blow up ATMs and disappear as fast as they arrived. They are not recognizable. They work with the precision and speed of a race car team at the pit stop. They accept that people may be injured or killed," wrote Die Welt’s Philipp Woldin.
According to Swen Eigenbrodt, the director of a Germany-wide special unit for criminal police in Hesse,"It is a miracle that there have not been deaths yet." Eigenbrodt’s specialized unit works with banks and prosecutors to combat the massive assaults on ATMs.
The professional gang is said to have targeted eight cash machines in the German states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony and Rhineland Palatinate between October and November 2021, stealing over $1 million in cash.
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