On June 16, 2022 at around 2:10 a.m., 6 men blew up an ATM on Kölner Straße in Kroppach.
Two suspects were caught in the course of extensive search measures, including with a police helicopter, in the morning near Roth in the Westerwald.
The police tracked down the others in the afternoon when they were traveling in a Dutch taxi on the A3 towards North Rhine-Westphalia.
They were followed by a police helicopter and several police vehicles.
When the car pulled off the Autobahn at the Siebengebirge junction, the Bonn police were notified. The chase ended around 8:30 p.m. at a level crossing in Bonn-Beuel with a barrier. There, the police stopped the getaway vehicle and arrested four occupants. A fifth man was able to escape.
A police helicopter from Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, several radio patrol vehicles and service dogs were used to search for him. However, he could no longer be asked.
In the meantime, the Rhineland-Palatinate helicopter refueled at the Federal Police Aviation Group in Sankt Augustin.
The exact amount of damage or loot is not yet known. In the course of the search for the escaped suspect, cash that is believed to have come from the crime was found.
Five suspects are Dutch nationals, one suspect has French nationality.
The six arrested between the ages of 19 and 30 are brought before the Koblenz district court.
In the meantime, the Bonn police no longer cordoned off the area around the getaway vehicle after their Rhineland-Palatinate colleagues had moved away, so that passers-by walked right past the vehicle, which had not yet been secured.
Only about 3 hours after the vehicle was stopped did the police cordon off the area with warning tape.
A passer-by who nevertheless entered the area was first stopped, but was then allowed to continue.
At around 12:30 a.m., the explosives/fire and deactivation crime scene team arrived and examined the car.
At around 2:00 a.m., the operation was largely over.
Around 10 radio patrol cars, three civilian service dog handler vehicles, a civilian vehicle and a police helicopter from Rhineland-Palatinate, around 10 radio patrol vehicles, a service dog handler vehicle, two prisoner vehicles, a police helicopter and the State Criminal Police Office from North Rhine-Westphalia were deployed.
15 окт 2024
