Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Robbery of millions on a money transporter – police are searching nationwide: “A long-prepared act”
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After the spectacular robbery of a money transporter in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in which several million euros were stolen, the perpetrators are still on the run. The search for the armed men is now running nationwide, as a police spokeswoman said on Friday morning. The masked perpetrators, armed with submachine guns, stopped and robbed a security company’s vehicle at the entrance to Autobahn 20 near Gützkow on Thursday morning. According to the police, the preparation of the crime and the procedure itself speak for organized crime. For example, concrete parts had been placed on the motorway access road, with the help of which the money transporter was stopped and the car prevented from escaping. After the money transport was opened by force from the rear, it was looted and set on fire. The two employees of the security company were not injured.
Armed robbers ambushed a money transporter on Autobahn 20 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and robbed the vehicle. The manhunt is still in full swing. The police commented on the search in the morning.
Masked men with submachine guns, a braked and looted money transporter and burning vehicles: In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a robbery took place like in an action film. According to the police, the robbers stole several million euros on Thursday on Autobahn 20 near Gützkow. The sophisticated preparation of the act and what happened afterwards suggested that they were organized criminals. According to the police, the perpetrators also fired. A police spokeswoman for the German Press Agency in Neubrandenburg said that how often and where exactly is not yet announced for tactical reasons. The two security guards sitting in the van were not injured in the robbery. The “Ostseewelle” had previously reported that shooting had taken place.
“It was a long-prepared act,” a police spokeswoman told the DPA. For example, shortly before the robbery in the early morning, extra massive concrete blocks were set up on the driveway from federal highway 111 to highway 20, as the investigation revealed. The perpetrators used these concrete parts as a “staged construction site” to attack the money transporter with two vehicles and force them to stop in front of the concrete parts.
Attack on money transporter with submachine guns
The perpetrators must have scouted out the tour of the security service beforehand, because they knew that the money transport wanted to go from the B111 to the A20. The two employees in the front driver’s cab, which can be locked, were not attacked. The money transporter was violently opened from behind with heavy equipment. The heavily armed perpetrators were able to flee with millions in loot and a vehicle. They had previously lit one of their vehicles and set fire to the rear of the money transporter. Her getaway vehicle was found burnt out in a wooded area several hours later – just a few kilometers away near Müssentin – along with an empty cash container. There was a high probability that another getaway vehicle was waiting there, it said.
Perpetrators set fire to three vehicles
When the criminals were gone, the employees of the damaged regional cash and valuables transport company are said to have got out of their van. They were questioned about the incident. At the request of star Police spokeswoman Antje Schulz confirms that the investigators are expecting at least three perpetrators, two of whom were seen at the money transporter. Among other things, it is now being checked how the robbers knew that so much money was being transported in the vehicle and which route it was taking.
Since it was no longer clear after the third burnt-out car was found what kind of vehicle the robbers were driving with, the police had shut down their large-scale manhunt again. Random checks will continue, it said. And forensics are running. “By default, colleagues abroad, for example in Poland and France, are also informed, but also the police departments in other federal states. The investigations are completely open – we are looking in all directions,” the spokeswoman said star. The police are also hoping for witnesses who made observations about the robbery. The Gützkow junction to the B111 remained closed for hours.