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Vehicle recovered in the lake: The safe has disappeared to this day
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District Police Authority Paderborn
Nine years after a break-in in a vehicle construction company, an angler discovered the lost getaway vehicle in the Lippesee in North Rhine-Westphalia.
When looking for fish with his sonar device, the 27-year-old noticed the outlines of a vehicle on Sunday, as the police in Paderborn announced.
According to the information, it was a car that was stolen in 2011 and used to transport a safe that was also stolen.
According to the police, the transporter was in the water about 15 meters from the dam wall of the Lippe lake and was quickly identified as the stolen vehicle by its license plate number.
The fire brigade lifted the vehicle with lifting bags.
Divers dragged the cart by boat to a winch that was used to pull it out of the water.
On the surface, the vehicle turned out to be empty and was confiscated.
Safe disappeared, perpetrator unknown
During the break-in in Salzkotten-Verlar, unknown perpetrators stole a safe in December 2011.
They are said to have loaded the safe, which weighs several hundred kilograms, into a company transporter parked in the factory building using a forklift.
The police could not identify a perpetrator at the time.
The safe has disappeared to this day.
What was in it is not known.
According to the police, there will be no new investigations, the act is statute-barred.
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