After the raid on a money courier in front of a furniture store in Frankfurt am Main, the investigators work together with the Cologne police. "The colleagues contacted us and said they had a similar case - an armed robbery on a cash-in-transit truck at an Ikea store," a police spokesman said.
Escape car and license plate had also been stolen. "We hope to continue through the exchange of information." First, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reported. As a result, the investigators are also investigating further robberies in other cities. Citing investigators, the newspaper had previously reported that the perpetrator's actions indicated "a high degree of planning," "which is known only in this form of professionally acting gang violence."
Gunfight in front of Ikea
A stranger had snatched a cash box full of cash on Saturday before the Ikea branch in Frankfurt's Nieder-Eschbach district. In a rip-off at the side entrance it had come to a firefight between the messenger and the attacker, in which in each case at least one shot was fired. The 56-year-old messenger was hit. The search for the robber continued. The amount of booty made the police no indication.
The officers found the escape car near the crime scene after the robbery. The luxury sedan was completely burned out according to the information. The investigators suspect that the robber may have set fire to the car to cover his tracks.