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Pokémon trading cards are back in fashion.
But the hype has degenerated in Neuss: Two men stole 16 valuable Pokémon trading cards from a married couple.
As the police announced on Friday, the couple had made an appointment on Thursday over the Internet with an interested party in a parking lot.
At the meeting, the two stayed in the car.
The man wanted the couple to hand over the cards so they could look at them outside of the car.
When the seller did not want this, there was a dispute.
Suddenly a second man appeared and attacked the man sitting in the car.
The other grabbed the bag with the cards.
They fled with a car.
According to the police, the amount of damage is in the four-digit range.
The trading cards, which can also be used to play against each other, came onto the market at the end of the 1990s as a supplement to the Gameboy game.
You are part of a hype that continues to this day.
Some Pokémon cards have become valuable collectibles.
Four- to six-digit ticket prices and massive price increases keep making headlines.
Last October, for example, a Charizard's card (in German: Glurak) of the first generation of cards was auctioned for $ 220,574.
The card had already been sold on Ebay in 2019 - for $ 36,000.
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