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Arrest: 60-year-old is said to have ambushed three money transporters

2021-02-23T08:58:22.156Z


A 60-year-old German was caught in the Netherlands. According to the prosecutor, the man is said to have been involved in three robberies on money transporters.


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Airport in Cologne-Bonn: forensic evidence after the attack on a money transporter (March 2019)

Photo: Oliver Berg / dpa

The police in the Netherlands carried out an arrest warrant against a 60-year-old German who is said to have been involved in three robberies on money transporters in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main.

The public prosecutor in Cologne announced that the man was accused of serious joint robbery in three cases and of violating the War Weapons Control Act.

The attacks were carried out in March 2018 and March 2019 in Cologne and November 2019 in Frankfurt.

In the attack at the airport in Cologne-Bonn in 2019, the 60-year-old used a rapid-fire weapon.

In the raids there and in Frankfurt am Main, one money messenger was seriously injured by gunfire, according to the announcement.

In all three cases, the perpetrators fled with cars stolen in the Netherlands and false license plates, the public prosecutor said.

The cars were set on fire not far from the crime scene and the escape was continued with a second vehicle that was waiting.

Assumptions that members of the former Red Army faction could have been involved in the acts were not confirmed in the investigation, according to the report.

The Cologne public prosecutor's office had issued a European arrest warrant against the suspect who had now been caught.

The extradition of the man to Germany has already been requested, it said.

Investigations into accomplices were still ongoing.

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Source: spiegel

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