Thought it was seamless? German robbers digging tunnels to rob banks exposed by workers building roads

A small town in western Germany recently sunken sidewalk, but construction workers to repair operations, but found an 8-meter-long tunnel. Local police speculate, based on available information, that the tunnel may be an attempt by the suspect to dig to break into the town’s bank robbery.

Source: BILD

The Times reported that the incident occurred in Bielefeld (Bielefeld) about 16 kilometers north of Spenge (Spenge), local residents witnessed the town of Volksbank (Volksbank) next to the sidewalk is sinking, so that the bank to find a construction company to repair, workers initially suspected that the damage is due to water intrusion, but a construction was found in the ground about 2 meters A tunnel, so that the bank robbers’ plot to be exposed in time.

The bank robbers seem to have spent several months digging an entrance shaft-like letter channel on the ground of a power substation, then digging a tunnel with a diameter of about 1 meter and using wooden boards to support the inner wall. (Screenshot)

According to reports, the police climbed down through the hole dug by the workers on the afternoon of the 18th, and at first they were worried about the risk of collapse, then they found that one end of the tunnel led to the bank, and the other end led to a nearby substation.

It is said that the bank robbers seem to have spent several months for this purpose, first in the substation ground dug out the entrance of the well-like letter, then excavated the tunnel diameter of about 1 meter, and used wooden boards to support the inner wall. The police pointed out that from the suspect has changed the lock of the substation door, the plot will not be detected before the successful apparently very confident

The bank employees speculated that they might be planning to use this weekend’s Pentecost holiday to rob the bank, “You usually only see this kind of thing on TV, it’s crazy”. (Screenshot from the film)

The case is not yet fully clear, and no suspects have been arrested. The bank employee, Volker Stein, told local media that the robbers may have intended to use this weekend’s Pentecostal holiday to rob the bank, “You usually only see this kind of thing on TV, it’s crazy.