“Dagobert” has been fooling the police for ten months. That’s the name of the stranger who wants to extort 1.4 million marks from the Karstadt department store group. A star-Text from 1993 – and a crime piece full of bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps.
This piece comes from the stern archives and was first published on April 29, 1993. It has now been 30 years since blackmailer “Dagobert” was caught on April 22, 1994. On this occasion we are publishing the text again.
What we know about Scrooge McDuck is that his real American name is Scrooge McDuck and that he was born in 1947, that his father was an illustrator for Walt Disney, that he lives in Duckburg and that he is a billionaire miser who annoys his relatives and causes trouble with the tank buster. has ties.
Unfortunately, all we know about the bomber, who names himself after the comic character and has been trying to blackmail the Karstadt shopping group for ten months, is that he is probably not swimming in money, but would like to: he is now demanding 1.4 million .
“Attention, this is the blackmailer speaking”
He is said to be 40 to 50 years old and blonde, well versed in radio technology and metal construction, at home in the forests east of Hamburg as well as in the sewers below Berlin. Although his voice can be heard nationwide on telephone 1166 (“Attention, this is the blackmailer speaking. Throw the money out now!”), no one has yet identified him and earned a 100,000 mark reward. Is Scrooge “smarter than the police (allowed),” as the “Welt” suspects?