Thieves use drill to steal USD 35m in German bank heist

Thieves used heavy drilling equipment to break into a vault at a high-street bank in western Germany and stole an estimated €30 million ($35 million) in cash, gold and jewellery, police said Tuesday. The overnight heist targeted a branch of Sparkasse in the city of Gelsenkirchen, where burglars drilled through the vault wall and forced open more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes. A police spokesman described the break-in as “very professionally executed,” likening it to the Hollywood film Ocean’s Eleven, German and international media reported. Authorities said the crime was discovered in the early hours of Monday after a fire…

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