Sunday, December 26th, 2021
“I was so shocked”
Burglars clear out the Pooth villa
While Verona Pooth is celebrating Christmas away with her family, burglars break into the villa at home. The thieves can escape with loot worth several hundred thousand euros. What particularly hurts the 53-year-old: In addition to the wedding jewelry, heirlooms are also missing.
Verona Pooth and her family experienced a shock on Christmas Eve: Burglars got into their villa in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf and stole jewelry, cash and designer bags. “I feel defenseless like a turtle whose shell has been taken away,” said the presenter of “Bild am Sonntag”. In total, the thieves would have stolen several hundred thousand euros. “All of my Cartier wedding jewelry is gone,” said the 53-year-old. Heirlooms were also stolen.
She celebrated Christmas Eve with her husband Franjo and their two sons San Diego and Rocco at their in-laws. When the family got home around 11 p.m. on Friday evening, there were broken pieces in front of the house and their small car was no longer in its parking lot. “Franjo stormed into the house immediately,” said Verona Pooth – but the thieves had already left. “I was so shocked that I just shivered and couldn’t even dial 110.”
The burglars would have wreaked havoc. “You were in every room (…) You tore out the drawers and rummaged through everything,” said the moderator. They even ripped a firmly anchored safe out of the wall, dragged it across the house, and then hauled it away in Pooth’s car.
The day before, burglars had struck the neighbors’ house, a family friend. When she came home from ice skating with Pooth’s son Rocco, he was still face to face with the burglars – but the thieves simply ran away. Both families assumed that it was the same gang of burglars. The Neuss police confirmed both break-ins. It is currently not clear whether the two acts are the same intruders – further investigations should show that, it said in the evening.